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- Raise agri investments to boost food security: FAO
Food and Agriculture Organisation has said that markets are facing higher food commodity prices and called for increasing farm sector inves...
- Rice, cotton prices may go up on low inventories
Rice and cotton prices are likely to soar in the coming decade as prices of agricultural commodities boom because of declining inventories ...
- Financial crash could deepen food crisis: UN
Govts should avoid reducing aid to developing countries' agriculture and introducing protectionist trade measures in response to the global...
- UN agriculture chief calls for more investment
The top U.N. agriculture official says food prices are soaring worldwide because governments have invested too little in farming.
- Biofuels depriving world of 100 million tons of cereals: FAO chief
Increased oil prices and trade barriers have prompted farmers to rush to cultivate more profitable crops used for biofuels rather than for ...
- Another 50 million face hunger due to rising food prices: UN
An additional 50 million people across the world face hunger as a result of soaring food prices, the United Nations has said, calling for s...
- $30 bn a year needed to fight world hunger: FAO
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation on Wednesday said $30 billion (19 billion euros) will be needed every year until 2050 to stave o...
- Food agency chief warns food prices will remain high
The head of the UN's food agency on Wednesday warned that food prices will remain high and has called for a boost in production.
- FAO summit to relaunch war on hunger
A summit next week hosted by the UN food agency will provide a key opportunity to re-launch the fight against hunger and poverty in the dev...
- FAO chief warns of food crisis 'civil war'
UN food agency chief Jacques Diouf on Friday warned of civil war in some countries because of global food shortages and called for a revamp...
- FAO honours PM with Agricola Award
UN body Food and Agriculture Organisation has conferred its highest distinction Agricola Award on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his con...
Just enough food to last 2-3 months, says FAO chiefThe world had just about enough cereal stocks to feed the global population. With a crisis looming worldwide, food prices too are far from ...
- Food prices to remain high for now, more riots feared: FAO
The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation today said global commodity prices were far from easing in the short term owing to ti...
- 'Food prices to remain high, more riots feared'
The Food and Agriculture Organisation said global commodity prices were far from easing in the short term owing to tight supply-demand situ...
- FAO to support agriculture
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has assured India that it will provide every possible assistance for upli...