Rome, Italy (PANA) - FAO's governing Conference on Friday closed a week-long session during which Member States unanimously approved the UN agency's biennial programme of work and budget while commending its ongoing efforts aimed at the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Full text...

Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Sunday, 9 July, 2017, marks the 6th anniversary of South Sudan’s independence, but the promise of the world’s youngest country is marred by hunger and conflict, as millions of people still face starvation. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Preventing famine in northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen urgently requires intensified humanitarian support and further funding. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Parliamentarians have a key role to play along with governments, civil society, private sector, international agencies and donors "to achieve a Zero Hunger generation in our lifetime", said FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva on Thursday at a meeting with lawmakers on the sidelines of the FAO Conference. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - South-South Cooperation - partnerships in which developing countries exchange resources and expertise - is proving an inclusive and cost-effective tool to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said on Thursday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Climate change poses a major risk for rural people in developing countries, often leading to distress-driven migration, and bolstering sustainable agriculture is an essential part of an effective policy response, the Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), José Graziano da Silva, said on Thursday. Full text...

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - The 2017 Africa Green Revolution Forum, which will hold 4-8 September in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, will highlight the capacity of agriculture and agribusiness to drive inclusive and sustainable rural development in Africa. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Global food commodity prices rose in June, led by wheat and meat prices, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) announced on Thursday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Three Rome-based food and agriculture agencies of the United Nations are embarking on an unprecedented joint programme to work with vulnerable communities in three crisis-prone areas in Africa over five years to meet their immediate food needs and boost their resilience, while addressing the root causes of food insecurity. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) José Graziano da Silva on Wednesday lauded rural women and girls as key agents of change to free the world from hunger and extreme poverty. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Wednesday honoured 10 organizations and individuals for their work on pressing issues of food security and sustainable development Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Tuesday a new United Nations global action programme that seeks to address pressing challenges related to food security, nutrition and the impacts of climate change facing the world's Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Arab states must continue to seek innovations to overcome water scarcity in the face of climate change, said UN Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General José Graziano da Silva at an event co-hosted by the Arab League on the sidelines of FAO's biennial Conference in Rome. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and Germany celebrated 15 years of successful collaboration on Tuesday in Rome, Italy. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Achieving the international community's goal of eradicating hunger and malnutrition by 2030 is indeed possible, but this requires a scaling up of action, including greater investments in agriculture and sustainable rural development, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva said on Monday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The number of hungry people in the world has increased since 2015, reversing years of progress, UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva told member states on Monday at the opening of the agency's biennial conference. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Youth employment should be at the centre of any strategy to face economic and demographic challenges in Africa, the Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization José Graziano da Silva has told a joint African Union-European Union meeting, hosted at FAO headquarters in Rome. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The African Union (AU) is planning an all out war similar to its response to the Ebola disease outbreak, to combat an army worm outbreak, which has spread to 25 out of 55 countries, a senior AU official said on Saturday. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The European Union (EU) is providing new support to the tune of 3 million euros to Mauritius to promote climate smart agriculture in the island, PANA learnt Saturday from official sources in the Mauritian capital. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana has banned the import of poultry and products from South Africa following the outbreak Avian Influenza in that country. Full text...

Ahmedabad, India (PANA) – Farmers in Nigeria have an opportunity to link up to affordable energy solutions, including solar power, thanks to new innovations promising to power irrigation of farms and light up homes. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Soil pollution, due mostly to human activities that leave excess chemicals in soils used to grow food, took centre stage at the 5th Global Soil Partnership (GSP) Plenary Assembly held at UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) headquarters in Rome this week, the UN food agency said on Friday. Full text...

Maiduguri, Nigeria (PANA) - Seeds and fertilizer for more than one million people are being distributed by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in north-eastern Nigeria for the planting season that begins this month. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Deepening ties between the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) should make opportunities to join the fight against hunger and rural poverty more accessible to young people as well as to experts who wish to contribute their time and skills. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Ahead of the 2030 deadline for meeting the international goals to eradicate hunger and poverty, Ministries of Agriculture in five of the world's most important emerging economies are well positioned to take a leading role in fighting hunger, the UN said on Friday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will on 19 June organise an event at its headquarters in Rome aimed at sparking renewed global effort to better manage droughts. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Information from satellites is being used in a new way to predict favourable conditions for Desert Locust swarms, as part of an early warning collaboration by scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) and Desert Locust experts at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The African Union (AU) and UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will seek to step up joint efforts to end hunger and sustain peace in the continent say FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and AU Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - A new guide by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) urges child labour concerns be integrated in agriculture, food security and nutrition programmes during crises and disasters, and was presented on Monday to mark World Day Against Child Labour. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Large agricultural harvests in some regions of the world are buoying global food supply conditions, but protracted fighting and unrest are increasing the ranks of the displaced and hungry elsewhere, according to the new edition of FAO's Crop Prospects and Food Situation report. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Young and qualified volunteers from across Italy will soon be able to join FAO's offices around the globe thanks to a partnership signed on Thursday between FAO and the Federazione Organismi Cristiani di Servizio Internazionale Volontario (FOCSIV), a network of Italian Christian NGOs. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Effort by the African Development Bank (AfDB) to upgrade Africa’s agriculture sector is yielding good results with about 5.6 million people benefiting from the Bank’s interventions in the past year, according to the Bank's media channel on Wednesday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Global food commodity markets are well-balanced, buoyed by ample supplies of wheat and maize and rebounding production of oilseed products. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) – Technology and development experts have attended a two-day international conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Evaluation (ICT4Eval) at IFAD headquarters in Rome, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana has banned the importation of poultry products from Zimbabwe following an outbreak of Avian Influenza. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB), in partnership with the Organisation pour la Promotion de la Contribution Active de la Femme Rwandaise au Developpement (SERUKA) – a national women’s organization focusing on women’s economic empowerment in Rwanda – has launched the Rwanda Honey Value Chain Project, which aims to enhance honey production in the country. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FA) will hold the Ocean Conference in New York from 5-9 June 2017, FAO said on Fridayin a statement. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is pushing forward with a massive campaign that has so far treated more than 12 million animals in less than three months, protecting the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of families who rely on their livestock's meat and milk for survival. Full text...

Oslo. Norway (PANA) - The Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing, an international treaty aimed at stopping rogue fishing practices, gives the world "all the instruments necessary to achieve our goal", the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva has said in Oslo, Norway. Full text...

Oslo, Norway (PANA) - The first meeting of the Parties to UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's bold new international treaty aimed at cracking down on illicit fishing opened on Monday in Oslo, Norway, as delegates began hammering out ways to make the agreement a success the UN food agency said in a statement. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - A highly contagious disease is spreading among farmed and wild tilapia, one of the world's most important fish for human consumption, the UN food agency said on Friday. Full text...

Ahmedabad, India (PANA) - “With 65% of the world’s uncultivated land, Africa will determine the future of food for the world and there is gold in the dirt, if only we will see it," said the African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Akinwumi Adesina, on Thursday to the international press as the Bank’s Annual Meetings wound up in Ahmedabad, India. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) – Gilbert F. Houngbo, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), arrives in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, on Thursday to discuss efforts to support small scale farmers and increase food security in the country. Full text...

Ahmedabad, India (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has proposed new investment strategies in Africa’s agriculture sector, which, if properly implemented, would effectively alter the market structures around the world in favour of the African farmers of major cash crops like tea, coffee and cocoa. Full text...

Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - All parties to the conflict in South Sudan must cease violence and work together to ensure that food and other life-saving support can reach the people and end famine and severe hunger, the heads of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. Full text...

Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), signed in Lilongwe, Malawi, has now given rise to a deal between Malawi and Tanzania to work together for the development of the Songwe River Basin Programme (SRBDP). Full text...

Ahmedabad, India (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has said the cost of malnutrition is too huge for Africa to ignore, with stunting costing Africa US$ 25 billion a year. Full text...

Ahmedabad, India (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has provided a roadmap to the growth of agriculture in African countries with a plan to inject nearly US$ 2.4 billion every year for 10 years to build roads, irrigation infrastructure and storage facilities to attract high-value investors. Full text...

Ahmedabad, India (PANA) - Developing Africa’s “grey matter infrastructure” through multi-sector investments in nutrition in Africa was a key focus on Monday at the African Development Bank’s Annual Meetings in India. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Ugandan Government have brought together policy makers and development practitioners for a three-day meeting in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. Full text...