Food And Agriculture Organization

Economic study suggests the extent and cost of food waste are dramatically overstated

26-Jun-2017 By Elizabeth Crawford

The increasingly loud debate about food waste could easily lead one to believe it is “the” biggest issue industry currently faces, but  new study in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics suggests most estimates are overblown and many proposed...

Canada contributes to Codex and OIE budgets

26-Jan-2017 By Joseph James Whitworth

Canada is to contribute an additional $1m to international bodies that develop standards for food safety and plant protection.

Glyphosate is unlikely to cause cancer: WHO/FAO committee

17-May-2016 By Niamh Michail

Glyphosate is unlikely to cause cancer to humans, says a report by a joint FAO and WHO committee on pesticides, but NGOs have questioned some of the scientists’ links to the chemical industry.

Nestlé, Unilever pledge to halve food waste by 2025

26-Jun-2015 By Caroline SCOTT-THOMAS

Members of the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) have committed to halving food waste over the next ten years at an event in New York this week.

Save Food: Nestlé pledges to help the world tackle food loss and waste

12-May-2015 By Nathan Gray

The world’s biggest food firm, Nestlé, has put reducing food waste firmly on its agenda, announcing plans to help further prevent the issue of food losses and waste around the world at the Save Food Congress.

FAO: Global food import costs to hit five-year low

11-May-2015 By Caroline SCOTT-THOMAS

Global food import costs are set to reach their lowest level in five years during 2015, even as volumes remain the same or rise slightly, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

Insects could feed growing global appetite for protein, says Euromonitor

03-Nov-2014 By Caroline SCOTT-THOMAS

Euromonitor International is the latest organisation to back the potential of insects to help meet growing global demand for protein.

IFT and FAO agree to form food safety partnership

06-Feb-2012 By Caroline Scott-Thomas

The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have agreed to form a food safety partnership, with the aim of cooperating toward achieving a safe, sufficient, and accessible food supply, according...

FAO food price index hits record high

05-Jan-2011 By Caroline Scott-Thomas

The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) food price index hit a record high in December, topping 2008’s previous high when soaring food costs led to food shortages and riots in many parts of the world.

Up-to-date FAO reports may stop food price volatility

01-Oct-2010

A system providing up-to-date information on global food stocks could prevent abrupt price hikes that could threaten food security.

Wheat, oils and dairy prices to stay up 40% for next decade, FAO

15-Jun-2010 By Jess Halliday

The FAO is cautiously optimistic about the prospects of food commodities in the wake of economic upheaval in the past two years, but average prices for wheat and grains, vegetable oils and dairy are likely to be higher over the next decade.

FAO launches Haiti food security tool

15-Feb-2010

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization has launched a new tool to help aid agencies and NGOs measure the food security situation in Haiti following last month’s earthquake.

Why Haiti must stay on the CSR agenda

18-Jan-2010

50,000 and counting. We'll probably never know exactly how many perished in the 7.0 earthquake that brought Haiti, quite literally, crashing down last Tuesday, 12th January 2010, just before 5pm. But for those who survived and who make it through...

Food prices rising again, FAO warns

09-Dec-2009 By Jess Halliday

Global food prices are on the rise again, the FAO warns, but a repeat of the 2007/08 spike does not look likely without the same disastrous confluence of factors.

New FAO food price database launched

19-Mar-2009

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization has launched a new online tool to track food prices in 55 developing countries, as part of its food price spike response.