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The FAO's call came as countries around the world continued to take unilateral measures to protect local food markets.

Domestic organic certification through the FAO, only one of the two tea brands, Greater China is the only designated procurement varieties.

The Libyan representative accused the FAO of serving political interests and said there was no scientific basis for the listing.

Again, this loss does not show up in the FAO's figures, and the resulting emissions are considered to be natural, not man-made.

Abdolreza Abbassian, senior grains economist at the FAO, said: "The situation is getting increasingly worrying. "

To give people worldwide a chance to express moral outrage at the extent of hunger, the FAO launched a year-long online petition drive.

An insect-based diet could provide just as much protein as meat (plus key vitamins and minerals) with far fewer emissions, the FAO says.

The FAO said the cost of almost all major commodities, like grains and oils, rose last month, while the cost of meats remained unchanged.

On the FAO's figures, Brazil has as much spare farmland as the next two countries together (Russia and America).

In April the FAO's food index registered its first drop in 15 months and officials said prices appeared to be "reaching a peak" .

The FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) has worked out that up to 30% of food is lost in storage.

The FAO also called for a poultry vaccination campaign involving thousands of veterinarians and international donor support.

China also contributed 30 million USD to the FAO to establish the trust fund. China was among the first of these countries to do so.

The FAO has been working on this, that the small farmer should not be abandoned, should be supported by governments.

The FAO believes one of the solutions to reverse the current food shortages is to boost small family run farms and self sufficiency.

By 2050, the FAO thinks, the contribution of cereals will have dropped to 46% and that of meat, dairy and fats will have risen to 29%.

The FAO-OIE mission visited several collective farms as well as the national veterinary laboratory and various animal health field stations.

The FAO eventually responded, saying that it would revisit the calculations used in its 2006 report.

Therefore, the study of the FAO food price changes means of production and grain yield of positive significance.

The FAO expects India to import more wheat and China to increase imports of coarse grains to supply feed to its livestock industry.

Guo Fusheng, a technical advisor with the FAO, confirmed that the organization had not yet asked China for tissue samples.

But for prices to fall, the FAO warned that favourable weather and a relaxation of export restrictions were needed.

Project requests for financing by the FAO Trust Fund should be demand-driven and emanate specifically from beneficiary countries.

The FAO estimates that destitute North Korea needs about 5. 1 million tonnes of grain a year for food, animal feed and seed.

The FAO's food summit in Rome is the first global response to a 71 per cent increase in food prices during the past two years.

The index is now at its highest level since the FAO started measuring food prices in 1990.

It is the responsibility of the FAO and WFP mission members to prepare the CFSAM report which must be viewed as a UN document.

The FAO leads international efforts to fight hunger worldwide, acting as a place where nations meet to negotiate agreements.

The FAO reckons that over the next 40 years irrigation will require cumulative investment of almost $1 trillion.

The FAO expects about a two percent increase in rice production in 2011 but a slight decline in wheat production.

The FAO headquarters in Rome published the document, "State of the World's Fisheries and Aquaculture. "

But the FAO also points out that crocodile attacks are less likely in places that have not been overfished.

The FAO and OIE have for some time had a largely unfunded global strategy for fighting avian flu.

The last time the FAO food index posted a monthly drop was in January 2007, but that proved a blip.

The FAO-China trust fund will have a strong focus on Africa, but will not exclude other regions.

The move makes Portuguese the fourth working language for the FAO African Regional Conferences, along with English, French and Arabic.

Separately, the FAO warned that rising oil prices could "further exacerbate an already precarious situation in food markets" .

The FAO report says the conference should agree on plans to boost local food production and increase investments to stimulate production.

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The FAO blames the situation on unpredictable rains, the return of thousands of refugees, and conflict.

The oil factor But the FAO attributed the fall in food costs to a brief, sharp drop in the price of crude oil.

earlier this month , the fao urged affected nations not to restock poultry farms too quickly to prevent the disease from flaring up again.

Over 7m hectares a year are currently being planted or allowed to regrow, according to the FAO, mostly in China and America.

"The situation is not rosy, but there is no reason for panic-buying, " says Abdolreza Abbassian at the FAO.

The FAO also is predicting a recovery for rice harvests in Africa. It expects increased production from Mali, Nigeria and Senegal.

The FAO also helps countries improve their agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all.

In separate reports earlier, the FAO has warned governments to avoid short-term measures to combat inflation.

The right way, argues Alexander Mueller of the FAO, is for farmers in poor countries to boost their yields.

In certain cases, the FAO team may also include additional experts in such areas as nutrition, trade and marketing, public health.

Recent assessments from the FAO show increasing international action on prevention and detection.

The China-FAO collaboration is part of the South-South Cooperation Initiative that the FAO launched in 1996.

But six of 34 African countries which reported their policy responses to the FAO said they were proposing price controls.

A child dies of a hunger-related malady every six seconds, the FAO said.

A million times a month, someone visits the FAO Internet site to consult a technical document or read about our work with farmers.

The FAO alert warns that "the ongoing drought is potentially a serious problem" , for China, the world's largest producer of wheat.

For this reason, a controversial new approach to famine relief is gaining currency within the FAO: feed animals instead of people.

Only two months ago, the FAO estimated the poor countries' cereal imports bill would rise by 25 per cent.

Global cereal supplies are also expected to tighten sharply this year due low stock levels, the FAO said.

The FAO has even suggested the shift may amount to "a change of paradigm" in farming.

On balance, concludes the FAO's Parviz Koohafkan, land is not a decisive problem for world agriculture.

The FAO says while stockpiling emergency supplies is understandable, hoarding staples and banning exports only made the situation worse.

The FAO will release its full report, 'The State of Food Insecurity in the World, ' in October.

The report came from the Organization for Economic Corporation (Cooperation) and Development and the FAO.

"Prices are dangerously close to the levels of 2007-08, " said Abdolreza Abbassian, an economist at the FAO.

The FAO predicts that world market prices for rice, wheat, barley, sugar and meat will stay high or continue rising.

According to the FAO, the retail cost of wheat and rice in Asia declined slightly last month, the first drop in nine months.

But that is only 0. 1% of the total area planted to wheat in the countries on the FAO's danger list.

India and Vietnam have also mounted significant forest-planting programmes, the FAO notes.

The FAO said that increase in food production could reduce the number of undernourished people by as much as 17 percent.

The FAO report says about thirty-two percent of world supplies are overfished, depleted or recovering.

So the FAO-EU project swiftly mobilized to help.

In the past decade, the FAO records, around 13m hectares of the world's forests, an area the size of England, have been lost each year.

Alinovi says the FAO has received up to 70 percent support in pledges for its $70 million appeal.

He expects the FAO to release a more detailed assessment early next year.

The FAO-EU project took care to include key provincial officials in workshops and field training.

The FAO Council meets four times between each session of the Conference and has 49 Members who serve three-year terms.

The FAO reported that rain and snowfalls were well below average in eight wheat-growing regions.

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The FAO and other groups are developing what they call the Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation Toolkit.

The report came from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the FAO.

The FAO says food shortages along with escalating prices "posed a risk to national security" .

Both the timber and paper industries could benefit from such research, says the FAO.

Van Huis is an enthusiast for eating insects but given his role as a consultant to the FAO, he can't be dismissed as a crank.

The FAO project is funded by the UN Development Group Iraq Trust Fund.

The FAO emergency project in Indonesia will be funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) with $1. 5 million.

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The FAO attributed the anticipated cost hikes largely to bad weather.

The FAO (U. N. Food and Agriculture Organization) says it is so nutritious it can be substituted for mother's milk.

The FAO representative says the situation of drought and famine in Somalia is worsening.

In 2007 food prices rose across the board. The FAO's food index increased by 26% that year.

The FAO report says about 32% of world supplies are overfished, depleted or recovering.

Every two years, representatives of all members meet at the FAO Conference to review work carried out and to approve a new budget.

"This is quite serious, " said Abdolreza Abbassian, of the FAO in Rome.

The FAO (Sere and Steinfeld, 1996) has defined 3 main livestock production systems; Industrial, Mixed and Grazing systems.

As a result, the FAO said, women farmers are currently less productive than their male counterparts.

26 others are on the FAO's danger list, accounting for about a third of wheat production.

In Latin America, the FAO estimates that some 70% of former forest cover has been converted for grazing.

New genetic analysis now promises to bring in another stage, says the FAO's Henning Steinfeld.

Amis will receive data from the FAO, international agencies and G20 countries.

They also have good memories. Rene Czudek at the FAO says a baboon frightened by a snake sandwich will probably not come back.

Between now and 2050, meat's share of calories will rise from 7% to 9%, says the FAO; the share of dairy produce and eggs will rise more.

The FAO held a meeting on the theme in Thailand in 2008 and there are plans for a world congress in 2013.

The FAO official says the goal of the plan is to make these people believe they can continue their lives where they are.

The FAO's price index for oils and fats rose marginally to 279 points in February, just below the peak recorded in June 2008.

Konuma says the FAO is carefully monitoring oil prices for any affects on Asia.

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Farmers will need to play an important role in mitigating the effects of climate change, the FAO report said.

And the FAO notes that global food output will have to increase by 70% to feed a population projected at 9. 1 billion in 2050.

The FAO Subregional Office services 300 million people in East Africa who consume about 20 percent of global food aid in a normal year.

hints: FAOAs a result, the FAO said, women farmers are currently less productive than their male counterparts.

Indeed, the FAO Composite Price, as a world indicator price for tea, increased by 11. 6 percent to reach US$1. 83 per kg in 2006.

But the FAO says the current yearly wild-fish harvest of 90, 000, 000 tons shows no improvement.

The FAO regular budget for the 2010-2011 biennium is US$1 billion.

In January 2011 the FAO food price index (at 215) has just exceeded its previous record set in May 2008 (at 214).

The FAO has said that food riots will spread in developing countries unless world leaders take major steps to reduce prices.

April 2006, Rome - 2005 was a record-breaking year for the world rice economy, according to the FAO Rice Market Monitor published today.

The FAO says developing countries grew more potatoes than developed countries for the first time in 2005.

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