Fisheries

Small is nutritional

A recent workshop in Dhaka, Bangladesh, focused on the role of small indigenous fi sh species in ensuring incomes and nutrition for the rural poor.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2009
Neena Koshy
Samudra
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Tags:
Food Supply, Nutrition, Fisheries, Aquaculture, FAO, Asia, Bangladesh, South Asia, Food Security
Fisheries

Securing small-scale fisheries

The Agenda Item of the 28th Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), on securing sustainable small-scale fisheries (SSF), dealt mainly with discussing follow-up to the Global Conference on Securing Small-scale Fisheries, held in Bangkok from 13 to 17 October 2008.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2009
Samudra
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52
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Tags:
Nutrition, Fisheries, Endangered Species, Fisherfolk, Poverty, FAO, Thailand, Global, Food Security
Food Policy

Ensuring food security (Editorial)

Time to rely on yield within the country
by Sucha Singh Gill

Publication Date: 
13/02/2009
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Malnutrition, Population, FAO, India, Food Security
Food Policy

Number of hungry people swells by 40 million

The number of hungry people in the world swelled by 40 million to touch the 923-million mark in 2008, chiefly due to higher food prices. More people could be pushed into hunger if the ongoing financial and economic crisis continues, a United Nations body has warned.

Publication Date: 
09/02/2009
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Prices, Starvation, FAO, Developing Countries
Fisheries

Not honouring the code

Countries are not complying with the UN Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries. It's time some changes were made, say Tony Pitcher, Daniela Kalikoski, Ganapathiraju Pramod and Katherine Short.

Publication Date: 
05/02/2009
Tony Pitcher, Daniela Kalikoski, Ganapathiraju Pramod & et al
Nature
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658
Tags:
Fisheries, Marine Fisheries, Endangered Species, FAO, Global, Statistics, Food Security
Agriculture

Agriculture and environmental challenges of the twenty-first century: a strategic approach for FAO

This paper considers the complementary aims of meeting the increasing demand for food and other agricultural products and of maintaining the natural resource base for future generations.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2009
FAO
Tags:
Environment, Agriculture, Water Resources, Climate Change, Biofuel, Biodiversity, FAO, Food Security, Land Use
Agriculture

 Tuber trouble

Economic slowdown may hit potato farming in developing countries THE Food and Agriculture Organization (fao) has warned that the booming potato production in developing countries may receive a setback due to global economic slowdown. In its year-end review titled

Publication Date: 
30/01/2009
Savvy Soumya Misra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agriculture, Potato, Economy, FAO, Developing Countries, Food Security
Food Policy

UN Chief Warns More Could Go Hungry In Crisis Year

Date: 28-Jan-09
Country: SPAIN
Author: Martin Roberts

MADRID - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Tuesday said rich nations had to do more to prevent the economic crisis from adding to an already intolerable 1 billion people going hungry in the world.

Publication Date: 
28/01/2009
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Food Prices, Starvation, Poverty, FAO, Food Security
Agriculture

FAO launches international year of natural fibres

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Thursday launched the International Year of Natural Fibres (IYNF) 2009 in a bid to emphasise the value of fibres while helping to sustain the incomes of farmers.

Publication Date: 
23/01/2009
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Jute, Farmers, Rural Development, FAO, Bangladesh, India
Agriculture

Panels report on farmers misleading, says KVM

Bathinda: Jaitu-based Kheti Virasat Mission (KVM) today expressed serious reservations over the report on organic farming recently released by the Punjab State Farmers' Commission.

Publication Date: 
02/01/2009
Indian Express (Chandigarh)
Tags:
Agriculture, Organic Farming, Farmers, FAO, Punjab

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