The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization or FAO is sponsoring the three-day summit.
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, now analyzing alternative solutions to global food problems, will issue its insect recommendation in May.
FORBES: Taboo Busters: Israel's Locusts, Europe's Horse Meat
Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in January reported its food-price index was up 32% in the second half of 2010, surpassing the previous record of June 2008.
FORBES: High Commodity Food-Price Decade Challenges All Global Managers
Sartaj Aziz, who served as finance minister and foreign minister under Nawaz Sharif, once worked as an economist at the World Bank and the Food and Agricultural Organization.
According to a report by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), 600 million people in Africa will be living in 24 of the 30 fastest-growing cities by that time.
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) puts the number of fishing vessels at around 4 million with a staggering 86 percent of them operating in Asian waters.
Longer-term, what the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) calls "slow-onset" climate change is seen as likely to have a heavy impact on food production in developing nations.
The U.S. has been winning cases over agricultural disputes against Europe at the World Trade Organization, and is likely to prefer to use that as a forum to open European markets.
For the past seven years, Freyer and her organization have been delivering tree saplings and agricultural training to rural villagers in 13 provinces across Afghanistan.
FORBES: Dollars & Skills: Women Helping Afghan Women Beat the Taliban
With global oil prices near all-time highs and tight cereal markets according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, companies in the agricultural sector face interesting opportunities, despite a frail global economy.
FORBES: Monsanto Surges On Latin American Demand As Food Prices Hover Near All-Time Highs
Agricultural, Church-dominated economies were superseded by new forms of social organization--nascent nation states with central political institutions, urban, commercial economies and lay patronage of intellectual and cultural life.
In a blog post on the organization's site, board member Brigitte Moran of the Agricultural Institute of Marin in California argued that markets should aspire to include only farmers selling to consumers.
Farm Aid is a national organization that provides grants to family farms in order to support a locally based agricultural system.
"The pipeline has come to symbolize something much, much bigger than just one energy project, it's come to symbolize what is our energy future, and what President Obama is going to do on climate change, " said activist Jane Kleeb of the anti-pipeline organization Bold Nebraska, in a state where the Keystone XL project would cut through predominantly agricultural areas.
And my organization, Root Capital, is financing two fair trade certified, organic cocoa enterprises, Kpeya Agricultural Enterprise and Balmed Holdings, both of which are breathing new life into the shattered countryside of Sierra Leone.
应用推荐