ISLAMABAD: Director-General of the Food and Agri­­culture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, Jose Graziano da Silva has said that Pakistan needs to develop better and efficient ...

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has stepped up efforts to end hunger and poverty in West Africa, following the introduction of a new crop meant to contribute to National and Global ...

Joining the heated debate on GM food crops and ingredients, a group of agricultural experts, herded together under the UN-backed FAO, declare an A to Z approach must be the only path for 'responsible ...

The FAO wants to improve standards across the world’s genebanks to improve the conservation of crop diversity which in turn means securing resilient global food supplies. The Food and Agriculture ...

Natural and man-made disasters have caused $3.8 trillion in crop and livestock losses over 30 years, the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization said on Friday. Floods, droughts, insect infestations, ...

The increased production of genetically modified crops around the globe has led to a higher number of incidents of low levels of GMOs being detected in traded food and feed, FAO said on Thursday. The ...

FAO downgraded its forecast for the 2013 rice production in Philippines to 18 million tonnes from the expectation of a bumper crop of 18.9 million tonnes at the beginning of the season.

FAO also forecasted further increases in the use of cereals for bio-fuel production with a total of 104 million tons, up 22% from the 2007/08 estimated level, representing almost 5% of world ...

FAO first forecast for world cereal utilization in 2009/10 suggested a relatively weak growth of around 1.3% from the estimated 2008/09 level, to 2.230 million tonnes.