New York, US (PANA) - The Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), Ms. Ertharin Cousin said the agency will scale up its humanitarian operations in response to rising levels of hunger and malnutrition. as a third consecutive year of drought deepens the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people in the south of the island nation. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Declining prices could thwart international efforts to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty unless steps are taken to guarantee decent incomes and livelihoods for small-scale producers, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said on Monday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Agriculture and Trade Ministers from around 20 countries together with other high-level officials and experts have gathered in Rome to share their views and experiences, and to discuss specific policy implications related to the long-term behaviour of agricultural prices, including possible periodic spikes. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Feeding the burgeoning world population will require significant improvements in agricultural productivity, above all in Africa, and mechanization and appropriate mechanization strategies have a large role to play, according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized United Nations agency and international financial institution, on Tuesday announced a call to its 176 Member States to nominate candidates for the Fund’s next President. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The agricultural sector must transform itself not only to achieve food and nutrition security for all, but also to help address global challenges such as climate change and antimicrobial resistance, FAO Director- General José Graziano da Silva said on Monday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Making agricultural production more sustainable in the face of climate change while achieving food and nutrition security for all will be a top theme at the biannual meeting of FAO’s Committee on Agriculture taking place on 26-30 September at the Organization’s Rome headquarters. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The heads of UN food agencies have stressed their commitment to maintain momentum to reach the ambitious target of curbing global hunger under the Sustainable Development Goals((SDGs) by 2030. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Emergency Coordinator of the World Food Programme (WFP), Denise Brown, and the Emergency and Rehabilitation Division Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Dominique Burgeon, have began a week-long joint mission to Madagascar to address teh food insecurity in southern part of the country. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Director-General of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), Jose Graziano da Silva, on Tuesday in New York called on governments to take concrete action on malnutrition. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) welcomed an agreement by Indonesia and the European Union (EU) to issue the world's first Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) timber licence as a major achievement in the fight against illegal logging. Full text...

Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The recent entry into force of a ground-breaking international accord on illegal fishing is a welcome development but it now requires "strong and effective implementation", FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said on Thursday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Economic growth is not enough to save those threatened daily with starvation and governments need to tailor policies and investments to transform rural areas in developing countries if they want to eliminate poverty, a new report by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) stated on Wednesday. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The 2016 African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) wrapped up Friday, in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, with financial, political and policy commitments to unleash US$ 200 billion in investments in the agriculture sector, according to the final communique of the meeting, a copy of which was made available to PANA in Kigali, Rwanda. Full text...

Dakar, Senega (PANA) – A new partnership towards increasing incomes for 300,000 farmers in West Africa was announced on Thursday at the African Green Revolution Forum in Kenya. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Staple food prices rose in August even as grain prices fell and the outlook for global cereal production improved. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The US Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Gayle Smith on Wednesday announced the US government's vision for ending global hunger, poverty and undernutrition over the next 15 years. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have signed a US$15 million agreement aimed at boosting the capacity of developing countries to track key agricultural data, information that is essential to good policymaking and that will help track progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Full text...

NewYork, US (PANA) - UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) President Kanayo Nwanze has been awarded the inaugural Africa Food Prize for his transformative work to eradicate rural poverty in Africa, an IFAD statement said on Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A decade of intense domestic attention to farmers and food production has generated “the most successful development effort” in African history, making countries with the biggest investments in agriculture to register higher farm productivity and overall economic performance, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) said in a new report on Tuesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Addressing an African ministerial conference, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organizations (FAO) Jose Graziano da Silva on Thursday stressed the need to mitigate the impacts of climate change and illegal fishing on oceans and coastal communities as fisheries and aquaculture emerge as driving forces behind the transformation of the continent’s economies. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - With fisheries and aquaculture emerging as transformational forces for African economies, more needs to be done to mitigate the impacts of climate change and illegal fishing on oceans and coastal communities. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Agro-industry Minister Mahen Kumar Seeruttun has asked the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for further assistance in urgently helping the island to control and eradicate the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD). Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Wednesday signed two technical cooperation agreements to strengthen the 'National Food Safety and Plant Health Protection Systems' and the 'Forest Code Revision and Institutional Reform', official sources in Port Louis said. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday said it urgently needs US$48 million for its school meals assistance programme in West and Central Africa to avoid having more than 1.3 million children across the region risk missing out its school meals as widening financial constraints force it to reduce its reach in the region. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) have agreed to strengthen their cooperation in Sudan to help smallholder farmers improve their production and promote food security. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) –The FAO Director-General, José Graziano da Silva, will visit Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles from 29 August to 3 September 2016 in support of the Indian Ocean Commission’s Regional Programme on Food and Nutrition Security. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Food security and agriculture have an essential role to play in preventing conflicts and crises on the African continent, blunting their impacts and acting as engines for post-crisis recovery. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - African Development Bank (AfDB) President Akinwumi Adesina has outlined a roadmap towards the transformation of agriculture in Africa, putting emphasis on combating malnutrition in children, turning African farmlands into major suppliers of food for export and putting funds at the disposal of local banks to create a stable source of funding for farm investments. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Seasonal floods, resulting in crop damage and inundation of pastures, following a severe El Nino-induced drought in Ethiopia may be further exacerbated by its cool weather counterpart, La Nina, expected from October onwards, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) warned on Monday. Full text...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The World Bank has pledged a total of US$50 million in support of Nigeria’s agricultural sector for specific benefit of the Fadama famers in the Boko Haram-ravaged areas in north east Nigeria. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Agro-industry and Food Security Miinister Mahen Seeruttun on Wednesday said that Mauritius is self-sufficient in poultry meat and eggs owing to well established vertically integrated poultry industries and it is of paramount importance that the industry be protected from major poultry diseases. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Urgent action is needed to provide farming and livelihood support to 385,000 people in parts of Nigeria's northeast where food insecurity is rampant, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Tuesday. Full text...

Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Agro-industry and Food Security Minister Mahen Seeruttun on Tuesday informed Parliament about the outbreak of foot and mouth disease among the cattle population in Mauritius and Rodrigues but said measures were being taken to control its spread. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The international prices for major food commodities saw a modest decline in July, following five consecutive months of increases, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a smartphone app in drought-hit Malawi to fundraise for school meals in the country's southern district of Zomba, where El Nino-induced drought has reduced crop supplies. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Protracted conflicts affecting 17 countries have driven millions of people into severe food insecurity and are hindering global efforts to eradicate malnutrition, two UN agencies have warned in a report submitted to the UN Security Council on Friday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Investing in agriculture and farming technologies will help to change the perception that young people have of farming, making it an appealing career choice, Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), has said. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - With only a few weeks before land preparation begins for the next main cropping season, some 23 million people in Southern Africa urgently need support to produce enough food to feed themselves, the FAO announced Thursday. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - As the term of office of US president Barack Obama winds down, his Government's initiative dubbed 'Feed the Future', is set to go far beyond his Administration to address global food security that has continued to affect several parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The food situation in several regions across Zimbabwe remained grave and could deteriorate to a large-scale famine in some of the worst drought affected provinces of Zimbabwe, leading to low crop production where local capacities have been impacted by the worst El Nino-induced drought in 35 years, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned in a statement issued here Monday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Leaders of two United Nations agencies fighting hunger worldwide have applauded new legislation in the US aimed at strengthening global food assistance programmes in the years ahead. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - The Mediterranean migration crisis and ways in which Italy's upcoming presidency of the Group of Seven (G7) can help boost efforts to achieve the international community's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), topped the agenda during talks on Thursday between Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A landmark trade agreement to remove US$35 billion worth of fish subsidies has been signed by 90 countries, among them, 48 African states, Asian and countries in the Pacific region, to end harmful fishing and to implement measures to conserve marine resources. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN World Food Programme (WFP) has launched what is set to become the largest ever emergency food relief operation in Malawi, where an unprecedented El Nino-related drought has left nearly 40 per cent of the population in need of emergency assistance. Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Daily consumption of meals with beans has reduced cases of anaemia and iron deficiency in young Rwandan women in just four-and-a-half months. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - A new study by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will help to fill a significant knowledge gap on the presence and extent of forests and trees in the world's drylands, where the food security and livelihoods of millions of people, already precarious, are increasingly being threatened by climate change. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - While agriculture remains the most significant driver of global deforestation, there is an urgent need to promote more positive interactions between agriculture and forestry to build sustainable agricultural systems and improve food security, the FAO said on Monday. Full text...

Rome, Italy (PANA) - Millions of people facing hunger in South Sudan will be driven to the brink of catastrophe if renewed flashes of violence derail the fragile peace process, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned here Saturday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Countries across West and Central Africa are on alert as the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1) continues to spread across the region, with Cameroon becoming the latest African country to detect the disease, the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday. Full text...