News and events

The number of chronically hungry people has passed 1bn for the first time – about one in six people – as the economic crisis compounds the impact of still high food prices, the United Nations said on Friday. The UN’s Food and...

Africa’s poor and vulnerable communities rarely have the opportunity to share their valuable experience and learn from others in broader or more formal exchanges of knowledge on climate change adaptation. The AfricaAdapt network,...

The FAO Working Group on Biotechnology invites you to join an e-mail conference it is organizing entitled "Learning from the past: Successes and failures with agricultural biotechnologies in developing countries...

By Lesley Wroughton, Reuters, 20 May 2009  * Providing some $22 mln in grants - World Bank official * Aid agencies, church groups disbursing money * Denies World Bank resuming grants through gov't * Says gov't needs to...

By Ulla Toernaes, Mo Ibrahimand Greg Mills, Business Day, 7th May 2009  Governance is improving in Africa: last year, more than half the continent’s countries improved their performance. The bad news is that Africa’s...

Russel Blinch and Jasmin Melvin, Reuters, 20th May 2009  Like a lion stalking its prey, another food price spike lurks as a threat to tentative global economies and poor nations in particular this year.

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Press release from EVA (Ethical Vegetarian Alternative), May 13, 2009.Belgian city of Ghent first to introduce meatless days. Starting May 13, the Belgian city of Ghent, one of the 370 European climate cities, may very well...

Norden News, 14 May 2009  Global food production must be adapted to climate change and genetic resources play a central role. This was stressed at a Nordic event during the UN’s 17th conference on sustainable development in...

Andrés Cala, The New York Times, May 18, 2009. SALAMANCA, SPAIN — Only a year ago, biofuels were blamed for soaring prices of vital food commodities like corn, wheat, sugar and vegetable oils. Riots in more than 30 countries...

Conservation Magazine, part of the Guardian Environment Network, Thursday 7 May 2009.Will the growing demand for cheap, ample supplies of cellulose create powerful incentives to convert diverse, native grasslands into sterile...