Five widely used organophosphate-based pesticides have been added to the list of 17 harmful pesticides by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation

The latest UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report highlights the sorry plight of the world's forests. According to the State of the World's Forests 1997, an estimated 11.3 million

While debating the ways to attain global food security, national governments ignore the most pertinent issue: rapidly disappearing agro biodiversity

As nations bicker, the list of countries reporting the loss of wild relatives of specific crops grows

AGRICULTURE all over the world has suffered many aid cuts in the recent past, according to the director general of the um Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Jacques Diouf This has led to

In a bid to ease workload on rural wometi in coastal areas, a simple yet effective fish scaler has been developed under a Food and Agriculture Organization project (IRED-Forum, No 53). The

PERUVIANS catch 11.6 million metric tonnes (MT) of fish annually but consume only 3 kg - 16 per cent of the amount recommended by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) - per head. Measures