News and events

By Gargi Parsai, The Hindu, 5 May 2009.To address concerns over the expected increase in the level of global food security owing to the financial and economic crisis that has hit the world, senior experts from the Food and...

By Jenny Barchfield, Associated Press, May 6, 2009The number of hungry people in the world could soon hit a record 1 billion, despite a recent drop in food prices, the U.N. food aid organization said Wednesday.The recent...

Christopher Leonard, AP Agribusiness Writer, Yahoo! Finance, May 5, 2009.Kenny Brinker is on the front lines of the national drive to prevent a devastating outbreak of swine flu on U.S. hog farms. But he's not a public health...

FAO Newsroom, 6 May 2009, Rome, Italy. Large amounts of fishing gear lost at sea or abandoned by fishers are hurting the marine environment, impacting fish stocks through "ghost fishing" and posing a hazard to ships,...

Reuters, Tuesday May 5 2009 (published in The Guardian electronic version).

China has banned pork from 17 more U.S. states, including top pork producers Iowa and North Carolina, bringing the total number of states banned to...

By Gardiner Harris and Elisabeth Malkin, New York Times, May 4, 2009.Closing schools once a student falls ill with swine flu may no longer be worth the toll on students and families, because the illness will soon be present...

The World Health Organization is coordinating the global response to human cases of swine influenza A (H1N1) and monitoring the corresponding threat of an influenza pandemic. Information on this page tracks the evolving situation...

World Health Organization website, 29th April 2009.

In the 2009 revision of the phase descriptions, WHO has retained the use of a six-phased approach for easy incorporation of new recommendations and approaches into existing...

Working Knowledge Forum, Business Harvard School, April 20, 2009.By Martha Lagace, Q&A with Eric D. Werker.Getting a seat at the table often makes all the difference in the world. New research from Harvard Business School...

* Poor nations losing commodities to rich investors * AU agrees guidelines to help governments negotiate * Large numbers of foreign farmers could cause instability By Barry Malone, Reuters, April 28, 2009Africa is giving vast...