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What's in a name? Or better yet, what's in a cheese?
18/06/2020
Geographical Indications help celebrate countries’ rich food heritage
Matching grants help migrants’ businesses take off in Tajikistan
16/06/2020
How supporting local agri-entrepreneurs has enhanced migrants’ resilience to the COVID-19 crisis
Growing productivity for Georgia’s women farmers
12/06/2020
Women in Georgia’s rural areas learn good practices from FAO and the EU for better farming
Webinar underlined the extension and advisory services’ crucial impact on sustainable food systems
11/06/2020
Across the globe, the pandemic revealed the extreme vulnerability of the agricultural sector. It has left governments confronted with multiple challenges to protect human lives, and livelihoods, as well as ensuring sufficient food supplies and basic servi
INTERVIEW: In times of a pandemic, everyone has had to adapt to ensure safe food
10/06/2020
COVID-19 has affected the way our food is supplied, traded, and purchased, which gives rise to new or different risks that need to be considered to ensure our food is safe at all times.
Mary Kenny is FAO’s food safety and consumer protection officer for
Sustainable fishing receives strong support in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
05/06/2020
Today, the world is celebrating the International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. There is even more to celebrate, as the 58th Council of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has now endorsed financial support to tw
Sustainability and biodiversity in Uzbekistan receives a strong boost from FAO and GEF
05/06/2020
Uzbekistan is looking for ways to transform the management of its highly degraded landscapes, where globally important biodiversity coexists with production systems, under threat from overexploitation and agriculture intensification.
Wheat is one of the
Rural families receive joint FAO-WFP support to combat climate change and COVID-19
02/06/2020
Climate change is one of the biggest global challenge of our times. Thousands of rural farmers and families are already suffering from consequences that may continue to enlarge, increasing the risk of poverty, food insecurity, and forced migration.
Some
COVID-19 causes havoc to supply chains for fresh fruits and vegetables
29/05/2020
Getting fruit and vegetables from the fields to the table is extra challenging amid COVID-19 – from restrictions on movement to high transport costs and closed markets.
The sector is also facing big changes in demand and prices. While the prices of some
Lifting lockdowns – what next for food systems?
28/05/2020
As countries ease lockdown measures, a new set of challenges emerges for food production, processing, and logistics of supply chains. Some of these can provide opportunity for growth, given that policymakers and value chain actors play their part. To miti