FAO Food & Agriculture Organization [to 12 March 2016]

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FAO Food & Agriculture Organization [to 12 March 2016]
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10-03-2016
Asia and the Pacific must play a leading role in meeting the SDGs to eliminate global hunger and malnutrition
While the Asia-Pacific region has shown remarkable progress in reducing poverty and hunger during the last 25 years, it can lead the world in the complete eradication of these scourges within the next 15 years, FAO’s Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific heard today.

Global crop prospects benign, but hunger intensifies in areas suffering from conflict
Thirty-four countries, including 27 in Africa, are currently in need of external assistance for food, due to drought, flooding and civil conflicts, according to FAO’s new edition of the Crop Prospects and Food Situation, released today. The figure has grown from 33 last December, after the addition of Swaziland.
9-03-2016

International agencies in Rome together commemorate Women’s Day
Leaders of international organizations based in Rome today gathered to highlight the achievements and the real prospects for achieving gender equality. The speakers all agreed accelerating the empowerment of women everywhere is fundamental to achieving a zero hunger world and reaching the world’s new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
8-03-2016

US ratification of accord is fresh boost for global effort to combat rogue fishing
US Ambassador to the United Nations agencies in Rome, David Lane, today formally presented FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva with the US’ instrument of ratification of the Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing.
7-03-2016

Ethiopian farmers need urgent assistance to feed country caught in major drought
Timely agricultural assistance for the upcoming rainy season is essential to help the drought-affected people of Ethiopia, as one of the strongest El Niño events on record continues to have devastating effects on the lives and livelihoods of farmers and herders.
7-03-2016