The 1.3bn tonnes of food wasted throughout the supply chain each year could feed as many as two billion people without any additional impact on the environment, the Food and Agriculture Organisation has said.
A new Danish research project aims to promote the widespread adoption of insects in our diets by showing that bugs and grubs are not only good for you, but are also delicious.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) food price index rose in September, up 1.4% from its August level, putting further pressure on manufacturers to pass on increased costs.
The global food price index held steady in August, calming fears of a repeat of the 2007-08 food crisis – but governments could still do more to stabilise markets, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Former Soviet countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) are taking desperate measures to tackle African Swine Fever (ASF), which is causing devastation to pig herds in the region.
Price volatility is as concerning as constant high commodity pricing, according to a European Commission response to a new report on global agricultural development in the next decade.
A leading UK animal health laboratory is to receive a $3m funding boost to become the centre of global expertise on research, surveillance and diagnostics of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).
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).
The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) has donated £16m ($25m) to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), supporting a global initiative to improve agricultural statistics.
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...
Stevia producer PureCircle says the adoption of proposed maximum levels for steviol glycosides by the Codex Alimentarius Commission will open up new markets for the high-intensity sweetener.
Food prices could double by 2030, claims UK based charity Oxfam, which also estimates that demand in 2050 could be 70 percent higher than current levels.
The FAO is cautiously optimistic about the prospects of food commodities in the wake of economic upheaval in the past two years, but average prices for wheat and grains, vegetable oils and dairy are likely to be higher over the next decade.
50,000 and counting. We'll probably never know exactly how many perished in the 7.0 earthquake that brought Haiti, quite literally, crashing down last Tuesday, 12th January 2010, just before 5pm. But for those who survived and who make it through...
Global food prices are on the rise again, the FAO warns, but a repeat of the 2007/08 spike does not look likely without the same disastrous confluence of factors.
A global monitoring scheme to measure food insecurity at individual and household levels would have more weight with policy makers and encourage preventative action, say anthropologists.
The West may be grappling with recession, but now is the time for businesses and governments to invest in agriculture and processing facilities around the world to stave off a massive food security problem by 2050, says the FAO.
A proposal to send unspent EU subsidies to developing countries worst hit by food price rises would have knock-on benefits for the EU, according to the rapporteur leading a Development Committee debate yesterday.
The theme of this year's World Food Day, 'Investing in agriculture
for food security', underlines growing concern that aid to this
particular sector has been declining for years.
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.
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.
The theme of this year's World Food Day will be 'International
Alliance Against Hunger,' emphasising the need for global
mobilisation to create the political will to eradicate hunger, the
United Nations Food and Agriculture...
Food safety is in the limelight this week with the United Nation's
Food and Agriculture Organisation advocating a new approach to
ensure that the food we eat is free from food-borne hazards.
The increasing globalisation of the food industry is creating huge
corporations with the power to harm farmers and food suppliers in
many countries, the United Nations Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO) warned this week.
More than 10,000 anti-globalisation activists demonstrated in Rome
at the weekend ahead of the World Food Summit taking place this
week in the Italian capital. The summit, hosted by the UN's Food
and Agriculture Organisation...
For the first time in its 40 years of existence, Codex Alimentarius, the international food code, is to
be evaluated by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the
World Health Organisation ( WHO).
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will soon host a
global meeting to review progress towards ending hunger. The
meeting, the 'World Food Summit: five years later' aims to track
progress achieved since the 1996...
The United Nations world food body urged countries to remove the
antibiotic chloramphenicol from the food chain after events last
week led to a European food scare.
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 destination for the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
World Food Summit next month may still be under discussion but
today the FAO will focus on World Food Day