Major food firms need to step up to the plate and ‘take a close look’ at their business models in order to help improve food supply diversity and nutritional value, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Chief Scientist has told us...
The United Nations has said it sees ‘new momentum and energy’ around the transition to a sustainable food system. But campaigners warn that words need to be put into action.
The ‘fragility’ of the food system has been exposed by rising hunger levels, the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. At an event staged ahead of the UN’s Sustainable Food Summit, the Food and Agriculture Organization and Members of the European Parliament...
Policy experts are calling for a shift from 'food security' to 'nutrition security,' to reflect a growing emphasis in food quality that in recent years has prioritised quantity as a solution to address hunger.
By QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
From 2 to 4 November, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is convening its 32nd Session of the Regional Conference for Europe, virtually hosted by the Government of Uzbekistan, where FAO Members will have the opportunity...
A doctoral student of the University of Vaasa is presenting her academic dissertation, which asserts that grocery stores are better equipped to reduce bread waste than consumers.
Climate scientists are warning that climate change-induced droughts could devastate more than half of the world’s wheat fields by the end of the century, triggering food shortages, market upheaval and political unrest.
The biodiversity essential for food production is disappearing by the day, says a damning report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) – yet there are areas for positive action. The first-of-kind report suggests steps manufacturers could take...
Many coffee producers are in crisis as the price plunges while Europe's appetite for tropical fruit, such as avocados, is booming, according to a global Food Outlook report by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
Changing how countries produce food is “fundamental” to protecting the Earth’s ecosystem, according to the head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The price of a shopping basket of meat products increased for the third month in a row, according to the Food and Agricultural Organisation’s (FAO) Meat Price Index.
Major food commodity prices rose in October, spurred by weather-driven concerns about sugar and palm oil supplies, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
The number of hungry people in the world has fallen again this year to 795 million – 10m fewer than last year and 216m fewer than in 1990-92 – according to FAO figures.
World meat production is expected to increase by 1.3% this year, to 318.7 million tonnes (mt) according to the new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), driven predominantly by increases in pig and poultry meat production.
The FAO's monthly food price index was largely stable in October, as increasing prices for sugar and vegetable oil were offset by declines in dairy and meat.
Poor farm practices and a heavy reliance on wild fish for feed threatens long-term sustainability, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
Challenging weather conditions in various countries, coupled with continuing political tensions in the Black Sea region have made food markets more volatile, according to the FAO's first major forecast for 2014.
Unfavourable weather conditions in the Asia, Brazil and the US, coupled with increased political tension in the Black Sea region have led to a steep increase in world food prices, says the FAO.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said that greenhouse gas emissions from livestock account for 14.5% of all human-related emissions, but could be cut by 30% by employing current best practices across the supply chain.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said that grain harvests are set to reach record levels in 2013, and wheat production is forecast to recover from last year’s reduced level.
Global food prices fell by 1.4% in the last month but seem to have stabilised at a relatively high level, says the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Egypt, which has killed an estimated 4,658 animals, with a further 40,222 suspected cases, is threatening food security in North Africa and the Middle East, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation...
Crop production may be rising but not enough to bring down high and volatile agricultural commodity prices this year, according to the latest analysis from the FAO.
April saw sharp rises in grain prices due to exchange rates and oil prices, with the future curve to be determined by how much production increases and ability to replenish reserves.
The FAO has revised downward its forecast for 2010 world wheat production levels and reports that wheat market dynamics drove international food prices up in August by 5 per cent - the biggest month-on-month increase since November 2009.
Researchers from Nigeria have found that xanthan gum can assist with quality and storage issues of cassava-wheat bread in a study that could help encourage use of cassava flour in products.
Populations around the Mediterranean are abandoning their traditional healthy diets, the FAO has warned, as incomes increase and consumers opt for more meat, saturated fats and time-saving processed foods.
The Doha Round of global agriculture negotiations collapsed mainly
because of infighting between large and powerful countries,
corporations and lobbies, said the FAO this week.
Russian traders are buying stocks of wheat at well above export
prices in a bid to capitalise on a potential surge in prices,
following a difficult summer for European grain production.
Nestle doesn't expect raw material prices to rise further this
year, despite a recent FAO report that forecasts an increase of
over 2 per cent in the world food import bill in 2006.
The signature of the treaty on plant genetic resources for food and
agriculture marks a major step towards guaranteeing food security
in the world, according to the FAO.
Following last week's spread of avian flu to Britain, supermarket
sourcing policy has come under fire from anxious government
ministers and poultry organisations desperate to placate concerned
shoppers.
The FAO's predictions concerning commodity costs and production
show sustained high prices for milk and growing sugar consumption
in the developing world.
Global cereal production for 2005 will be higher than previously
thought, and large inventories will continue to mitigate against
upward price pressure, says FAO.
The FAO's warning that urgent policy reform is needed comes just
days before the make-or-break WTO Hong Kong summit on liberalising
agricultural trade.
The FAO director-general's call for support to reform the
bureaucracy of the organisation and make it more responsive follows
years of criticism of the UN agency.
