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...

Ahmedabad, India (PANA) - The Mahatma Mandir Convention and Exhibition Centre in the Gandhinagar area of Ahmedabad in Gujarat State is reportedly fully ready to "absorb" the more than 3,000 delegates invited to the 52nd Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, taking place from 22-26, May, 2017. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Key practitioners in the movie industries in Nigeria and India will meet during the 2017 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group in Ahmedabad, India, to agree on a line of action towards changing perceptions on agriculture. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) announced on Friday that it has developed supplementary guidelines to the UNFCCC NAP Guidelines for "Addressing Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-Ag Guidelines"). These are aimed to support developing countries in making sure agriculture is both included in national adaptation plans and made more adaptive and resilient. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Bank are strengthening their cooperation to end hunger and poverty at global and national levels, FAO said in a statement obtained by PANA on Thursday. Full text...

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – Harmful fishing subsidies that contribute to overfishing are estimated to be as high as US$35 billion, fisheries experts from the United Nations trade and development agency have said, highlighting one of the key issues that will be debated at next month's Ocean Conference. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) is planning to bring African heads of state together to discuss the involvement of youth in agriculture, according to the bank's media outlet. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Friday welcomed the new report published by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) on food security, conflict and international migration. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – A United Nations meeting on sustainable management of forests has discussed the importance of mobilizing resources from a diverse range of actors to ensure broad ownership as well as to advance the overall sustainable development agenda. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Global food commodity prices fell in April amid expectations of ongoing robust supplies of many key staples, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Thursday. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana has announced plans to commence aquaculture projects in June to help eradicate poverty. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – As the UN marked the first World Tuna Day The UN Legal Council has called for the protection of precious tuna resources and their surrounding ecosystems. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Unless urgent action is taken to feed people in north-east Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, more than 20 million people will not find enough food to eat, the heads of the United Nations food agencies warned on Friday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Urgent action is needed to save the lives of people facing famine in northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said on Monday at the opening of the UN food agency's Council meeting. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) – The United Nations agricultural agency has created an online database that uses satellite data and Google Earth images to figure out how much water is being used to irrigate crops, focusing on parts of Africa and the Middle East that are facing water scarcity. Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) – Botswana’s agriculture minister has challenged the nation to proactively initiate strategies to eradicate beef measles, threatening the country’s beef industry. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The international body that oversees plant health has taken a big step forward with the adoption of a new global standard to help ensure that the international trade in plants and seeds, while very profitable, is also safer, the UN food agency said on Thursday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and Consumers International (CI), a global federation of consumer rights groups, have agreed to intensify their collaboration to help end hunger. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - An FAO-led push to establish internationally agreed standards that can guide the development of catch documentation schemes aimed at keeping illegally caught fish off store-shelves and consumers' plates has taken an important step forward, the UN food agency said on Wednesday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The crisis afflicting the strife-torn Lake Chad Basin is rooted in decades of neglect, lack of rural development and the impact of climate change, and the only way to ensure a lasting solution is to address these including through investments in sustainable agriculture, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva, said Tuesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Warning of the increasing risk of mass deaths from starvation in many countries in Africa and in Yemen due to worsening drought and conflict, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has called for international support to prevent the repeat of the 2011 tragedy in the Horn of Africa that claimed more than 260,000 lives. Full text...

N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General, José Graziano da Silva this week undertook his first ever official visit to Chad as part of urgent efforts to draw the attention of the international community on the current food security crisis threatening the Lake Chad Basin region. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Global food prices monitored by Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) fell in March amid large available supplies and expectations of strong harvests, the UN food agency reported on Thursday. Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - High level technicians in food security and nutrition from seven Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions are meeting for three days in Mauritius to provide specific inputs to the Global Action Programme (GAP) on Food Security and Nutrition in SIDS. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Prince Charles of Wales on Wednesday visited the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) where he was briefed by officials from the three Rome-based UN food agencies on the massive hunger crises facing northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Ensuring young people in rural areas can access financing and earn decent incomes is essential to stem migration to Europe and elsewhere, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) President said on Monday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Despite international efforts to address food insecurity, around 108 million people in the world were severely food insecure in 2016, a dramatic increase compared with 80 million in 2015, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in a new global report on food crises released in Brussels Friday. Full text...

Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Despite international efforts to address food insecurity, around 108 million people in the world were severely food insecure in 2016, a dramatic increase compared with 80 million in 2015, according to a new global report on food crises released in Brussels on Friday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The FAO and the International Rice Research (IRRI) have agreed to cooperate more closely to support sustainable rice production in developing countries. Full text...

Rome, Italy US (PANA) - The United Nations on Wednesday announced the appointment of David Beasley of the United States as the Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), which delivers emergency food assistance around the world and works with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says farmers under its support programmes in Northeast Nigeria, the region being ravaged by the Boko Haram insurgency, are looking forward to a very good harvest, going by the amount and quality of crops some of them have so far gathered from their fields. Full text...