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A couple of decades ago the wall that was on everybody’s minds was in Berlin. Then it came crashing down, pushed over by a wave of reform and renewal that … Continue readingOp ed // What ever happened to the peace dividend, anyway?

THE HARDEST CHOICE. Fathuma and her family lost most of their camels and goats to drought and in early 2017 were forced to seek relief at a camp for the … Continue readingImpact brochure // Cash for food today, seeds for food tomorrow

Nearly a quarter of damages wrought by natural disasters on the developing world are borne by the agricultural sector according to initial results from a new FAO study released here … Continue readingNews release // Agriculture bears major brunt of disaster impacts, UN report says

With help from FAO, a community of lepers is growing food crops and fish in a sprawling colony on the outskirts of New Delhi Shahadra, India – Seen through the … Continue readingFeature // “We are not hungry anymore”

The waste of a staggering 1.3 billion tonnes of food per year is not only causing major economic losses but also wreaking significant harm on the natural resources that humanity … Continue readingNews release // Food waste harms climate, water, land and biodiversity, warns UN report

In animal health circles, it’s the equivalent of the Apollo 11 moon landing: some time in the next 18 months, FAO jointly with the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) … Continue readingExplainer // Deadly cattle plague, once the bane of farmers, on its deathbed

For many in the western world, they’re a summer oddity — strange blobs we sometimes see bobbing about on the seafloor beneath us during a day at the beach. But … Continue readingBright // The trouble with sea cucumbers

Ybycuí, Paraguay – For the last six months, environmentalists in Paraguay have been struggling to draw international attention to a case of pesticide dumping that they say is an all-too-typical … Continue readingReporting // Paraguay: Doubts swirl around pesticide disposal “project”