New and unprecedented forms of natural disasters are most heavily felt in the agricultural industry, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a Rome-based UN agency, said on Thursday.
The European Commission and the European Union (EU) member states on Tuesday agreed to take concrete measures to prevent food safety crisis in the wake of Fipronil eggs contamination scandal.
Drought and subsequent floods in Sri Lanka threaten the food security of around 900,000 people in Sri Lanka, a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP), issued on Thursday, said.
A week-long drought conference ended Friday in Namibia's capital Windhoek, with a call for international help for funding as 200 million people in Africa are food insecure.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday urged the world's nations to "take climate action to the next level," two weeks after 175 governments signed the historic Paris Agreement on climate change in New York.
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe on Friday declared a "state of disaster" in many rural areas hit by a severe drought, with 26 percent of the population facing food shortages.
Briefing United Nations Member States today on the widely varied and devastating impacts of the current El Niño weather phenomenon – which for months has sparked massive floods in some countries while leaving others, often in the same region, bone dry – the top UN relief official urged the international community to act now to help millions of people facing food insecurity.
Climate change poses severe and distinct threats to food security, and could subject an additional 600 million people to malnutrition by 2080, a United Nations human rights expert warned today.
Η ΑΝΑΤΟΛΙΚΗ ΑΕ, Ανώνυμη Αναπτυξιακή Εταιρεία ΟΤΑ Ανατολικής Θεσσαλονίκης, ως συντονιστής του Ευρωπαϊκού έργου FUSIONS «Cr-EAT-ive Schools», και οι Παιδικοί Σταθμοί: «Πανόραμα» του Δήμου Θεσσαλονίκης, «Ελαφάκια» του Δήμου Θέρμης, «Μπίλλειος Στέγη» του Δήμου Καλαμαριάς, 2ος Παιδικός Σταθμός «Καλαϊτζη-Τερλεμέζη» του Δήμου Πυλαίας Χορτιάτη και το «Σχολείο της Φύσης» ως συνδιοργανωτές , σας προσκαλούν την Κυριακή 10 Μαΐου, Ημέρα της Μητέρας, από τις 11 πμ έως τις 2 μμ, στo Δημαρχείο Θεσσαλονίκης, στην εκδήλωση «Μην το πετάς…σκέψου αν τρώγεται».
UN, 7 April 2015 – A new report released today by the United Nations agricultural agency says that the heat energy generated by the earth’s core can be used for cost efficient, sustainable food production and processing in developing countries.