The crusade to end world hunger has been a bitter failure. But with
the world set to sweep away a crooked food trading system, there is
a chance to get it right - if only we could revive the FAO from
dormancy.
Despite an upturn in global wheat, corn and soy production in 2004,
prices for food ingredients sourced from cereal raw materials are
likely to remain under pressure, writes Lindsey Partos.
The FAO has cited poultry producers as the primary cause for the
spread of the disease, undermining industry's assertions that it is
mainly wild birds that spread the disease.
Food makers in Europe today work under strict guidelines on the
labelling and traceability of genetically modified foodstuffs.
Their rules reflect the deep suspicions in consumer minds today
over the safety of biotech food. But in...
In the face of rising meat and dairy prices, animal disease
outbreaks and consumer health concerns, world agriculture policy
makers, meat traders, dairy experts, veterinarians and private
sector producers have attended the 20th session...
As the buffer zone for global cereal stocks continues to fall and
raw material prices rise, the UN-backed Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO) warned this week that cereal stocks will
continue to fall, predicting that although...
Rising prices for ingredients sourced from raw materials may find
little relief in 2004 with the UN-backed Food and Agriculture
Organisation yesterday predicting a fall in cereal stocks again by
the end of the 2003/2004 season. 'Soaring...
Countries affected by the deadly avian influenza virus H5N1 should
not restock their flocks too quickly to avoid the disease flaring
up again, FAO warned today. But two months after the outbreak of
the epidemic some countries are...
Adding value to the quintessential tropical starch commodity
cassava could be an economic alternative for a food industry
currently undergoing squeezed margins through high raw material
prices.
Responding to recent media reports that bananas may be extinct
within ten years, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
has urged producers to promote greater genetic diversity in
commercial bananas.
The operations of large food multinationals should be more actively
regulated by developing nations heavily reliant on agriculture, the
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on
Monday, writes the Financial Times...
The global organic banana market is growing rapidly and could
account for three per cent of sales in the next three years, the
United Nations food body said on Wednesday.
The director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation
(FAO) has proposed that a World Food Summit originally scheduled
for next month should be postponed until June 2002, the Rome-based
body said on Monday.
The U.N. world food body reached a landmark agreement on July 1 to
try to save the world's diversity of agricultural crops. The pact
followed an anguished...