food

UN agencies urge international cooperation to address food safety issues

2 July 2001
Two United Nations agencies today called on governments around the world to implement international food safety and quality standards in order to protect trade and health while restoring consumer confidence.

UN food agency teams up with US university to help close digital divide

20 June 2001
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today launched a new initiative aimed at closing the digital divide between rich farmers in developed countries and poor rural communities in developing countries through the use of technologies that can increase food production.
Pumpkin farmer in Calcutta

FAO teams up with the Netherlands to promote food security

22 May 2001
UN Affairs

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Netherlands today signed a new multi-million dollar agreement, in which Dutch authorities pledged to contribute $9 million up to the end of 2002 and to develop the cooperation into a long-term arrangement.

FAO anti-desertification project in Niger

Accord on food security, environment signed by UN agency, African regional group

17 May 2001
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today announced an agreement with a regional African group designed to promote food security, rural development, environmental protection and desertification control through assessments of natural resources.

Fund for better food standards in world's poorest States proposed at UN meeting

15 May 2001
Participants attending a United Nations conference on the world's poorest States proposed today a number of new initiatives aimed at alleviating poverty and promoting development in these "least developed" nations, also known as LDCs.

UN food agency calls for renewed global action to fight hunger

18 April 2001
With an eye to the upcoming five-year review of progress since the 1996 World Food Summit, the United Nations today called for reinvigorated international action to fight hunger and chronic undernourishment.

UN food agency launches new emergency effort to feed 2.5 million Ethiopians

10 April 2001
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today launched a new $89.7 million emergency operation to feed 2.5 million small-scale farmers in Ethiopia.

New UN report predicts 28 million Africans will face severe food shortages

9 April 2001
Some 28 million people in Africa will face severe food shortages this year -- many in countries that have been torn by conflict and ravaged by adverse weather conditions, according to a new report by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).

New 'miracle' rice holds promise of higher yields, incomes in Africa: UN agency

4 April 2001
A new variety of rice developed in Africa can yield up to 50 per cent larger crops without fertilizer, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which supported the research that led to the breakthrough.