Tag: Food and Agriculture Organization

Can new Forest ecosystems be designed and developed to provide the same type of stable and seasonal revenue as Croplands?  Hilly ...

The world is changing as fast as the pace of new technological innovations that are increasingly shrinking our notion of ...

ICN2 is not a new disease, it's the bizarre acronym for the Second International Conference on Nutrition, held in Rome,  ...

Overfishing, climate change and hunger is what you call a "triple whammy"on the planet. You may wonder what they have in ...

WFD, another United Nations World Day? How boring! But this one isn't. In spite of its bland name, WFD or ...

The World Food Programme: From a Small FAO Unit to Top UN Humanitarian Agency When children outgrow their parents...That is ...

My (Adventurous) Life at the United Nations: An Unexpected End to a Drafting Committee Session. 14 November 1991, 26th FAO ...

Over the past 100 years, agro-biodiversity has steadily disappeared with the adoption of modern agricultural practices and the globalization of ...

In the 1990s, the political world,  the so-called "international community" could not countenance the growth of a UN agency that apparently ...

The inclusion of food issues has meant from the beginning that FAO had a very broad scope: it wasn't simply ...

The oldest United Nations technical agency, and at one point in its chaotic history, the largest, has a bizarre name ...

Sorry to disappoint, but the UN is neither. Not a beast, not a dream utopia. Too often in the news ...