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UN, Slow Food movement sign agreement to promote ‘gastronomy of liberation’ in developing world
The UN food agency and the gastronomic and ecological movement Slow Food signed an agreement on Wednesday for joint work on promoting small farmers and local recipes around the world that they hope will put Africa on the gourmet map. “I call it the gastronomy of liberation,” said Carlo Petrini,…
Insects could be humans next food source… even if that gives you the creeps
A festival next month in London aims to take the yuck factor out of eating bugs and promote the environmental benefits Crunchy, full of protein and to be found under a rock near you. Insects have long been overlooked as food in all but a handful of places around the…
UN: Buying ‘funny fruit’ will help feed the world and reduce waste
Make a shopping list and buy “funny fruit,” it will cut food waste and help “shape a sustainable future,” the United Nations Environment Programme and Food and Agriculture Organzation said on Tuesday. The UNEP, FAO and partners unveiled a campaign dubbed “Think-Eat-Save Reduce Your Foodprint” to change global practices that…
U.N. says global hunger is down but progress is slowing
The UN’s food agency revised down the number of the world’s hungry on Tuesday to just under 870 million but slammed the figure as “unacceptable” and warned that the fight against hunger was slowing down. “With almost 870 million people chronically undernourished in 2010-2012, the number of hungry people in…
FAO: Global food prices remained steady in August
Global food prices remained steady in August, the United Nations food agency said Thursday, but warned that “the game is not over” as it was only the beginning of the harvest season. An overall FAO index of food prices averaged 213 points last month, the same level as in July…
Global food prices rise sharply in July: UN
Global food prices rose six percent in July after dropping for three months, largely because of a hike in the price of grains and sugar, the UN Food and Agricultural Organization said Thursday. The FAO’s Food Price Index, a monthly measure of changes in a basket of food commodities, was…
Farm production ‘needs to rise 60 percent by 2050′: UN
World farm production must rise 60 percent by 2050 to meet the needs of a growing population but this has to happen in “a more sustainable way,” the UN food agency FAO and the OECD said on Wednesday. “It’s mostly going to be about productivity,” Angel Gurria, head of the…
World deforestation rate ‘accelerating’: U.N.
The world’s deforestation rate has accelerated to 6.4 millionhectares a year, a new UN survey showed on Wednesday, but Asia showed net gains in forest land-use largely due to extensive planting in China. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) used satellite technology for the first time to map forests, finding there was a net…
Farmers must boost sustainable crops to feed world: UN agency
MILAN (Reuters) – The ravages from half a century of intensive farming must give way to a more sustainable approach if farmers are to feed the world in 2050, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Monday. Global farm output must increase 70 percent, including a nearly…
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