World Food Day Stresses Climate Change and Bioenergy Effects on Poor 10/10/08
Climate change and bioenergy are the focus of this year’s World Food Day activities, expected to involve over 150 countries. FAO celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945.

New Tools Ease Organic Agricultural Trade 08/10/08
Organic farmers in developing countries will have greater access to world markets, thanks to two practical tools launched this week that seek to ease trade in organic agricultural products.

Don't Discount Aldi and Lidl 06/10/08
Claims that the credit crunch is making people turn their attention to the hard discounters seem to be borne out in the latest issue of Meat Demand Trends.

Soaring Food Prices Catch Another 75 Million in Hunger Trap 19/09/08
Rising prices have plunged an additional 75 million people below the hunger threshold, bringing the estimated number of undernourished people worldwide to 923 million in 2007, FAO said this week.

Raise Farm Production to End Food Crisis – Diouf 17/09/08
The way out of the global food crisis, which has plunged at least 75 million more humans into hunger and poverty, lies in increased agricultural production, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf told Italy’s Parliament today.

Eastern European Cereal Output on the Rise 11/09/08
Agricultural output is expected to increase significantly in the Russian Federation and Ukraine this year, as higher food prices have led to an expansion in area planted in cereals, FAO said at a meeting here today.

Farming Union Helps Address Future of Food Policy
10/09/08
NFU Scotland, the Union representing Scotland’s farmers, has today given evidence to the Scottish Parliament Rural Affairs and Environment Committee’s round table discussions on the future of food policy.