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Rome – The FAO Food Price Index, a benchmark for world food commodity prices, averaged 130.1 points in July 2025, up 1.6 percent from June, driven primarily by rising international prices of …
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#FAO# FootAndMouthDisease Greater awareness and action are needed as Europe and parts of the Middle East grapple with fresh outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) which can have devastating impacts on …
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Rome–Many of the new satellites currently in Earth’s orbit are equipped to provide revolutionary tools and data to improve global food security and strengthen agrifood systems. A new report from the Food …
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Last week, several prominent scientific organizations confirmed what had been predicted for months: 2024 was the hottest year on record, UNEP says. This sparked renewed calls for countries to rein in emissions of greenhouse gases, …
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Rome – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) formalized its membership as a founding member of the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty, a G20 initiative championed …
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Rome – Policy makers, researchers and the public have a new resource to gauge the scale and importance of agrifood systems in providing employment around the world. The Food and Agriculture …
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“Catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity” bordering on starvation are expected to impact hundreds of thousands of people in coming months, driven principally by violence and conflict. Five hunger hotspots are of …
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Rome – About a quarter of the population in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to face acute hunger, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis released …
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#Food, #FoodPrices, #GlobalFoodPrices, #Inflation, #CookingOil, #FAO IBNS-CMEDIA: Global food prices experienced a surge in March, marking the first increase since July, driven mainly by the rise in cooking oil prices, even as the costs of …
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#FAO, #GlobalFood, #FoodCrisis; #GlobalAgrifoodSystems; #climateSolution Agrifood systems and the communities that support and depend on them are on the front lines of loss and damage linked to climate change, a new report …
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