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Excess salt in soils puts food security at risk: FAO

Dec 04, 2021, at 09:57 pm

New York:  Improper water management, including insufficient supply and poor quality drainage systems, are contributing to excessive soil salinization – a problem that threatens global food security, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Antimicrobial resistance a 'global health emergency,' UN, ahead of awareness week

Nov 13, 2018, at 09:09 am

New York, Nov 13 (IBNS): By 2050, some five million people could die each year in Asia alone due to resistance to antibiotic medicines or antimicrobials, according to UN agencies.

Poor diets threaten health more than malaria, tuberculosis, measles – new UN report

Nov 08, 2018, at 08:53 am

New York, Nov 8 (IBNS): With one-in-five deaths associated with poor-quality diets, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued a co-authored report on Wednesday, urging policymakers to reduce food loss and waste, to improve access to nutritious and healthy food.

Conflicts and extreme climate change threatens access to food in 39 countries – UN agriculture report

Sep 21, 2018, at 08:31 am

New York, Sept 21 (IBNS): Unrelenting conflict and rapid climate change is continuing to reshape agriculture across the world, and contributing to major food shortages across 39 countries, which continue to rely on help from the United Nations to meet their food needs, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday.

Backed by UN agency, countries set to take on deadly livestock-killing disease

Sep 08, 2018, at 08:48 am

New York, Sept 8 (IBNS): Gathered at a major United Nations agricultural conference, over 45 countries today pledged to eradicate by 2030 a highly contagious and devastating disease responsible for the death of millions of small farm animals, at cost of more than $2 billion each year.

Backed by UN agency, countries set to take on deadly livestock-killing disease

Sep 08, 2018, at 08:48 am

New York, Sept 8 (IBNS): Gathered at a major United Nations agricultural conference, over 45 countries today pledged to eradicate by 2030 a highly contagious and devastating disease responsible for the death of millions of small farm animals, at cost of more than $2 billion each year.

Deadly swine fever threatens Asia, UN agriculture agency warns, urging regional collaboration

Aug 29, 2018, at 08:23 am

New York, Aug 29 (IBNS): The rapid onset of the deadly African Swine Fever (ASF) in China has been detected in areas a thousand kilometres apart – posing an imminent threat to other Asian countries, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Tuesday.

Some 19 million newborns at risk of brain damage every year due to iodine deficiency – UN

Mar 02, 2018, at 01:52 pm

New York, Mar 2 (JEN): Nearly 19 million babies born globally every year – 14 per cent – are at risk of permanent yet preventable brain damage and reduced cognitive function due to a lack of iodine in the earliest years of life, according to a United Nations-backed report released Thursday.

UN warns against rise in greenhouse gas emissions

Apr 12, 2014, at 06:10 pm

New York, Apr 12 (IBNS): From farming to forestry and fisheries, agriculture greenhouse emissions have nearly doubled over the past 50 years and may increase by another 30 per cent by 2050, according to new estimates out on Friday from the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).

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