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We can overcome poverty and hunger by 2025

Kyodo News InternationalMay 22, 2013 01:00
Over three-quarters of the extreme poor in the world live in the countryside. Reducing rural poverty will therefore require significantly higher rural incomes. Since most rural incomes are related to agriculture, raising agricultural productivity can help raise rural incomes all round.

UN, Slow Food agree to boost local recipes

Agence France-PresseMay 15, 2013 14:59
The UN food agency and the gastronomic and ecological movement Slow Food signed an agreement on Wednesday for joint work on promoting small farmers and local recipes around the world that they hope will put Africa on the gourmet map. "I call it the gastronomy of liberation," said Carlo Petrini, the founder of the Italy-based movement, holding up an African recipe booklet as a first example of collaboration between the two. Petrini said Africa had seen "gastronomic colonialism" in which local cooking was spurned in favour of British, French or Italian cuisines.

UN, Slow Food agree to boost local recipes

Agence France-PresseMay 15, 2013 14:42
The UN food agency and the gastronomic and ecological movement Slow Food signed an agreement on Wednesday for joint work on promoting small farmers and local recipes around the world that they hope will put Africa on the gourmet map. "I call it the gastronomy of liberation," said Carlo Petrini, the founder of the Italy-based movement, holding up an African recipe booklet as a first example of collaboration between the two. Petrini said Africa had seen "gastronomic colonialism" in which local cooking was spurned in favour of British, French or Italian cuisines.

UN, Slow Food agree to boost local recipes

Agence France-PresseMay 15, 2013 08:15
The UN food agency and the gastronomic and ecological movement Slow Food signed an agreement on Wednesday for joint work on promoting small farmers and local recipes around the world that they hope will put Africa on the gourmet map. "I call it the gastronomy of liberation," said Carlo Petrini, the founder of the Italy-based movement, holding up an African recipe booklet as a first example of collaboration between the two. Petrini said Africa had seen "gastronomic colonialism" in which local cooking was spurned in favour of British, French or Italian cuisines.

World food prices rise slightly in March

April 12, 2013 17:34
World food prices edged slightly higher in March, their first rise so far this year, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Thursday, though prices stayed within the narrow price band where they have stayed since November. With rice prices almost unchanged from February, the cereals index -- the largest single component in the overall index -- was unchanged compared to February.

Dairy price surge raises March world food cost

April 12, 2013 17:17
A sharp surge in price of dairy products pushed overall food cost one percentage point higher in March, UN reported Thursday, noting world wheat production remained on track to reach its second highest level ever barring adverse weather. In its latest monthly Food Price Index (FPI), UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said dairy component of the index, which carries a 17 percent weight in the overall calculations, jumped by 22 points to 225 - one of the largest recorded changes - due to Oceania's hot, dry weather that cut into production of milk and its various by-products.<

Dairy nudges FAO Food Price Index higher by one percent

April 12, 2013 14:21
The Food and Agriculture Organization Price Index (FPI) crept higher by one percent in March compared with a month before, driven mainly by an 11 percent increase in dairy.

Egypt crisis threatens food for poorest - World Food Programme

April 11, 2013 15:00
By Emad Omar CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's economic crisis poses a threat to basic nutrition in the country of 84 million people where the poorest spend more than half their income on food, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday. WFP country director Gian Pietro Bordignon's warning underscores one of the main challenges facing President Mohamed Mursi's government as it grapples with an economic crisis caused by two years of instability.

World food prices rise in March on dairy surge - FAO

April 11, 2013 06:30
ROME (Reuters) - Global food prices rose 1 percent in March, the United Nations' food agency said on Thursday, pointing to a surge in dairy costs, while cereals prices were little changed and seen facing downward pressure in coming months. The Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) price index, which measures monthly price changes for a basket of cereals, oilseeds, dairy, meat and sugar, averaged 212.4 points in March, up 1 percent from 210.7 in February and its highest since October 2012.

North Korea boosts food output thanks to new farm deal - report

April 11, 2013 01:45
By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea, which has suffered chronic food shortages for decades, has had a surge in agricultural production due to a new pay-based incentive system for farmers last year, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper reported on Thursday, citing farm managers. As North Korea threatens war with the United States and South Korea, its soldiers are being called back to farms for spring planting in a country where millions cannot find enough to eat, defectors from the North said.
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