Rome, Italy (PANA) - The Port State Measures Agreement "marks the dawn of a new era in the effort to combat illegal fishing" but rapid action is needed to make sure its implementation is effective, UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva has said. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) showed that while growth in aquaculture has helped drive global per capita fish consumption above 20 kg a year for the first time, almost a third of commercial fish stocks are now over-harvested at biologically unsustainable levels. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Global food commodity prices rose 4.2 per cent in June, their steepest monthly increase of the past four years, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Thursday, but noted improved production prospects for the year ahead. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - More than 60 million people worldwide, 40 million of them in East and Southern Africa, are projected to be food insecure due to the impact of the El Niño climate event, the United Nations said Wednesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Floods across Ethiopia have severely impacted on livestock-dependent families, following more than 18 months of dry spells and poor rainfall induced by an El Niño drought phenomenon, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Tuesday. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria - (PANA) - Nigeria and China on Monday signed an agreement worth over eight million RMB Yuan for multiple feasibility, agricultural and training projects. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The 2015-16 El Niño weather phenomenon has been one of the strongest and most widespread of the past hundred years, destroying the livelihoods of farming families across the globe and leaving millions of people hungry, according to a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Investing more in Africa’s rural areas will stem the flow of economic migrants and minimize the acts of desperation that make newspaper headlines, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) said Monday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The recent period of high agricultural commodity prices is most likely over, say the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in their latest 10-year Outlook. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The World Bank Group on Friday approved US$100 million in additional financing to support Ethiopia’s food-for-work programme to enable the East African nation combat the effects of a crippling drought. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - More than 4.8 million people in South Sudan, which is well over one-third of the population, will be facing severe food shortages over the coming months, and the risk of a hunger catastrophe continues to threaten parts of the country, three UN agencies warned on Wednesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Despite some recent political progress in South Sudan, a deteriorating food and nutrition situation, economic decline and sporadic violence are continuing to significantly impact the humanitarian needs within the country, the UN World Food Progarmme (WFP) cautioned on Friday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Pope Francis in a meeting on Thursday with FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva praised the agency's efforts to address migration in the Mediterranean region as well as its work to promote the strong links between peace and food security, climate change and sustainable development. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Cape Verde joined the Port State Measures Agreement on Thursday, as President Jorge Carlos Fonseca personally delivered his country's ratification papers for the treaty to UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in a visit to Rome. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Thursday said it is providing agricultural and livelihood assistance to affected host communities and displaced people in the Lake Chad Basin as a result of massive population displacements and insecurity that are putting livelihoods and food security at high risk. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya’s agriculture minister Willy Bett said on Tuesday that African states are prepared to take steps to advance commercial agriculture by increasing funding, taking steps to remove taxes that slow down the sector’s growth and providing subsidies to increase food production. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Representatives of 13 international development agencies working in agriculture and rural development in Tanzania were scheduled to look at local responses to El Niño impacts during their annual field visit in the country's central Dodoma region from 15 to 17 June 2016, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) said Friday in a statement it sent to PANA here. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Vulnerability Assessment Results released by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has indicated that over 41.4 million people are food insecure with 21 million people requiring immediate assistance in Southern Africa. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - In the first papal visit to the UN World Food Programme (WFP), Pope Francis on Monday gave his full support to the goal of eradicating hunger and paid tribute to the organization’s staff, including those who had lost their lives at work. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius has acquired a Gamma irradiator and a digester with financial support from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in a bid to irradiate fruit flies that are causing huge damages to food crops in the island-nation. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The many ways farmers, fishers, foresters and ranchers around the world are adapting their practices to climate change will go under the spotlight at the annual forum of the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA), taking place 15-17 June 2016 at the Rome headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) are reaching out to agricultural professionals to raise awareness about the importance of child labour issues. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said that a Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - A partnership of leading international organizations on Monday launched the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard (FLW Standard) at the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) 2016 Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, aiming, among other goals, to help reduce food loss and waste within the private sector. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivore (PANA) - The African Development Bank Group announced Friday that it will host a workshop on “Establishing an African Agriculture Risk Sharing and Financing Mechanism” in Nairobi, Kenya, from 12-13 July 2016. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Promoting sustainable agriculture requires a renewed focus on innovation and investment in research, technology and capacity development, Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) José Graziano da Silva said on Friday at a meeting of agriculture ministers of the G20 in China. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Two UN agencies have joined forces to distribute seeds and agricultural Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Global food prices rose 2.1 per cent in May, the fourth Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said drought linked to El Nino and conflicts have pushed the number of countries currently in need of external food assistance up to 37 from 34 in March. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Some 4.6 million people in Burundi are food insecure, with more than Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of 20 million Canadian dollars (US$15 million) from the Government of Canada to implement a programme linking nutrition, agriculture and food processing, which will assist almost 1 million people in Ghana over the next five years. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - About two million people, or half the population, in the Sahelian Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Agriculture is currently standing on the edge of a second green revolution and technological innovation will act as a catalyst in boosting productivity and growth in Africa’s agribusiness sector, PwC Africa said in a new report released on Tuesday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - With around 795 million hungry people in the world, and an additional 60 million needing food aid in the wake of droughts and crop failures caused by El Niño, agricultural ministers from the G20 countries meeting in China this week have an enormous challenge ahead of them, according to Kanayo Nwanze, president of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Mauritius and the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on Thursday signed a Reimbursable Technical Assistance (RTA) agreement to develop the country’s seed sector, an important first step to increasing food production and food security for local communities. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A major overhaul of the global food system is urgently needed if the world is to combat hunger, use natural resources more efficiently and stem environmental damage, the International Resource Panel (IRP) has said. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) have begun providing seeds, hand tools and food to nearly 50,000 hungry farming families for this year's planting season in the most food-insecure areas of the Central African Republic (CAR). Full text...

Istanbul, Turkey (PANA) - A new network to achieve joint global food-security assessments and joint responses to food crises, including those related to phenomena such as El Niño, was launched in Istanbul Monday by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the European Union. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) – With more than 60 million people across the world reeling from the drought caused by El Niño, Josefina Stubbs from the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), has a strong message for leaders gathering at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul next week. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The report of a new study published on Thursday has found that what we eat matters not just for our health, but for the planet, too. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) – International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) President Kanayo F. Nwanze on Wednesday underlined the importance of investing in smallholder agriculture, saying that rural development plays a fundamental role in stabilizing communities and further reduces the impacts of climate change and migration. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Stakeholders attending the Southern Africa Development Community's workshop on Food Security and Poverty Eradication in Gaborone said the region needs to mobilise substantive resources - financial and human - in order to effectively address poverty and food insecurity. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The world’s first-ever international agreement specifically Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana’s President Ian Khama has challenged Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states to unite towards combating the region’s food insecurity and poverty, while increasing agricultural productivity. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The European Union (EU) and UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have agreed to step up joint efforts to support tropical timber producing countries in curbing illegal logging, improving forest governance and promoting the trade of legally sourced timber. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The importance of agriculture and agribusiness in unlocking shared prosperity in Africa was the subject of a high level panel of African leaders who, on Thursday, addressed the Grow Africa Investment Forum held as part of the ongoing World Economic Forum on Africa (WEF) in Kigali, Rwanda. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has joined forces with a group of Nobel laureates to tackle the problems of hunger and violence through a new alliance launched in Rome, Italy. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Mr. Peter de Clercq, on Wednesday called for urgent global action to avert a deterioration of the situation as drought continues to devastate communities in Puntland and Somaliland. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The FAO and WHO have released new guidelines aimed at reducing the damage done by pesticides that pose especially high toxic risks to human health and the environment. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) and the Chadian on Monday, at BADEA’s Headquarters in Khartoum, Sudan, signed a loan agreement, worth US$ 20 million, for the construction of Small Dams for Agriculture and Livestock in rural areas in Chad. Full text...