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FAO Says Monitoring Food Losses Essential to Tackle Hunger
2013-10-23 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
DENMARK - Keeping track of the enormity and nature of food loss and waste is essential to reducing the problem and to speeding efforts to eliminate hunger globally, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told participants at the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) in Copenhagen.
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FAO Calls on Countries to Adapt to Food Price Volatility
2013-10-09 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - The world’s food price problems are not over despite a current market lull, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told a ministerial meeting on international food prices attended by some 30 agriculture ministers on Monday (7 October).
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FAO, IFIF Address Sustainability, Feed Safety and Food Security
2013-10-09 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - The International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) held their 12th annual meeting at the FAO Headquarters on 3-4 October 2013, to address together the challenges of ensuring sustainability in animal feeding, feed safety and food security.
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FAO Food Price Index Reflects Unchanged Pig Meat Prices
2013-10-04 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - The FAO Food Price Index averaged 199.1 points in September 2013, 2.3 points (one per cent) below its August value and down 11 points (or 5.4 per cent) since the beginning of the year. The decline in September marked the fifth consecutive decrease in the value of the index and was driven by a sharp fall in the international prices of cereals, whereas prices of all other components of the index, namely dairy, oils, meat and sugar, rose slightly.
Greenhouse gas emissions from livestock can be cut by 30%, says FAO
2013-09-26 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Greenhouse gas emissions from livestock could be cut by up to 30% if farmers adopt better techniques without having to overhaul entire production systems, according to a study released on Thursday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The FAO said emissions associated with livestock added up to 7.1 gigatonnes (GT) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-eq) per year or 14.5% of all human-caused greenhouse releases, slightly less than its controversial estimate in 2006. In its highly...
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