FAO Food & Agriculture Organization [to 28 November 2015]
http://www.fao.org/news/archive/news-by-date/2015/en/
[Selected Announcements]

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Netherlands donates $7 million to improve water management in Near East and Africa
The Netherlands and FAO are expanding their collaboration in the area of water management with a $7 million donation by the Government of the Netherlands to support the use of remote sensing technology in helping water-scarce countries in the Near East and Africa monitor and improve the way they use water for crop production.
27-11-2015

Surge in climate change-related disasters poses growing threat to food security
Focusing specifically on the impact of climate-related disasters in developing countries, some 25 percent of the negative economic impacts were borne by the crop, livestock, fisheries and forestry sectors alone.
26-11-2015

World mayors’ meeting to be hosted by FAO in 2016
The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, promulgated earlier this year at the 2015 World Expo, offers a unique international platform to make city food systems more equitable and sustainable, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and the Italian city’s Mayor, Giuliano Pisapia, have said.
26-11-2015

Growing need to revamp national laws governing pesticides
Some thirty years to the day after FAO first launched its International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides, the UN food agency is calling on countries to make sure that national regulatory frameworks governing the management of pesticides are kept up to date.
25-11-2015

Making genetic diversity part of climate change adaptation
In the run-up to the Paris Climate Change Summit, FAO has released new Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Integration of Genetic Diversity into National Climate Change Adaptation Planning, designed assist countries in better conserving and sustainably using genetic resources in times of climate change.
24-11-2015