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Millions of people in South Sudan will face hunger this year if urgent action is not taken, according to a joint report issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP). The FAO-WFP report, Crop ...  

The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have agreed to form a food safety partnership, with the aim of cooperating toward achieving a safe, sufficient, and accessible food supply, according to IFT.  

With mutual efforts towards achieving a safe, sufficient, and accessible food supply, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) have signed a "Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)".  

Global food prices rose overall last month for the first time in six months, demonstrating the volatility of international food markets, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today. The FAO Food Price Index rose by four points ...  

Ukraines Minister of Agriculture and Food Mykola Prysiazhniuk, while staying in Berlin to attend the International Green Week 2012, has met Jose Graziano da Silva, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations  

a joint crop and food security assessment report released by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) says. The FAO-WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission to South Sudan (CFSAM) report, conducted at ...  

Cooperatives and producer organizations will be increasingly important in efforts to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today. “FAO needs strong cooperatives and producer ...  

"The secretary-general and director-general express their deep appreciation to Ms. Sheeran for her leadership of WFP during her five year tenure, noting that she has been an outstanding advocate for the United Nations and champion of the world's poorest ...  

Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The use of corn to make ethanol in the U.S. is helping to lift the grain price worldwide, said Jose Graziano da Silva, the new director general of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization. “FAO has been ...  

The U.S. policy to produce ethanol biofuel from corn is raising prices for the grain across the world, said Jose Graziano da Silva, the new director general of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization. “FAO has been raising its ...  

MILAN, Jan 12 (Reuters) - World food prices are likely to extend recent falls in the coming months as recession fears sap demand and supplies remain strong, but they can rebound on adverse crop weather and rising demand, the United Nations' FAO food agency ...  

The former director general of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has called on African nations to embrace and invest more in agriculture for a more sustained and economic development. Senegalese-born Jacque Diouf ...  

Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Criticism of biofuels and their impact on commodity prices by the new director general of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization is “simplistic and misinformed,” an industry lobby said. Higher energy ...  

Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- World food prices fell 2.4 percent in December from the previous month, led by grains, sugar and oilseeds, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said. An index of 55 food items fell to 211 points last ...  

Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- While Argentina’s corn crop will decline because of a drought, curbing exports from the world’s second-largest shipper, U.S. farmers may expand planting and make up for the potential damage, the United Nations said.