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UN to examine wheat market "turmoil"
Category: Commodity News/Agriculture & Softs Commodity News
London, 4 September 2010 The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will hold a special meeting later this month to examine the recent spike in wheat prices and help avoid any repeat ...
Saturday, 04 September 2010 -
Wheat sends food prices up
Category: Commodity News/Power & Energy Commodity News
Rome, 1 September 2010 FAO Food Price Index climbs five percent in August: Surging wheat prices drove international food prices up five percent last month in the biggest month-on-month increase since ...
Wednesday, 01 September 2010 -
Russia grain imports to soar in 2010/11-analyst
Category: Commodity News/Agriculture & Softs Commodity News
... 2010's world wheat output and stocks because of production shortfalls in Russia. "Everyone is nervous about what if Russia imports, this is the crunch of the matter now, " FAO's economist and grain analyst ...
Friday, 20 August 2010 -
FAO cuts wheat production forecast but considers supplies adequate
Category: Commodity Reports/Agriculture & Softs Commodity Reports
Rome, 4 August 2010 The impact of unfavourable weather events on crops in recent weeks has led FAO to cut its global wheat production forecast for 2010 to 651 million tonnes, from 676 million tonnes ...
Thursday, 05 August 2010 -
Innovations in Access to Land: Land Grab or Agricultural Investment?
Category: Commodity Reports/Agriculture & Softs Commodity Reports
Washington DC, August 2010 This is the first in a series of posts about the increasing prevalence of large-scale land acquisition, or “land grabs” in Sub-Saharan Africa. By Ronit Ridberg. Background: ...
Tuesday, 03 August 2010 -
Jatropha - a bioenergy crop for the poor
Category: Commodity News/Environmental Markets & Commodities
... by FAO and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). But the report stresses that jatropha is still essentially a wild plant sorely in need of crop improvement. Expecting jatropha ...
Thursday, 22 July 2010 -
Fertilizer industry sees solid demand and production capacity
Category: Commodity Reports/Power & Energy Commodity Reports
... to that of demand. After two consecutive bumper crops, it is anticipated that the 2010 world cereal output will reach a new record of 2.28 billion metric tonnes (Bt), according to FAO. With world cereal ...
Friday, 02 July 2010 -
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2010-2019
Category: Commodity Reports/Agriculture & Softs Commodity Reports
Paris, 18 June 2010 The 2010 edition of the Agricultural Outlook marks the sixth year of collaboration between the OECD and FAO in publishing a projection of the global markets of key agricultural ...
Friday, 18 June 2010 -
Global prices of food could climb by as much as 40%
Category: Commodity News/Agriculture & Softs Commodity News
New York, 15 June 2010 Global prices of food could climb by as much as 40% in the coming decade, as the global population continues to surge, a new United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ...
Tuesday, 15 June 2010 -
International prices of agricultural commodities drop
Category: Commodity Reports/Agriculture & Softs Commodity Reports
Rome, 3 June 2010 International prices of key food staples have dropped during the first five months of 2010 according to the latest edition of FAO's biannual Food Outlook report, just released. But ...
Friday, 04 June 2010 -
World deforestation decreases, but remains alarming
Category: Commodity News/Environmental Markets & Commodities
Rome 25 March 2010 FAO publishes key findings of global forest resources assessment: World deforestation, mainly the conversion of tropical forests to agricultural land, has decreased over the past ten ...
Friday, 26 March 2010 -
Drive to double African rice production
Category: Commodity News/Commodity News
... Major initiatives launched by AfricaRice in the wake of the crisis, with partners such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and with strong support from donors (including ...
Monday, 22 March 2010 -
Agriculture can meet long-term food demand-SG
Category: Commodity News/Agriculture & Softs Commodity News
... in several poor countries and prompted a political debate about how to feed a rising world population. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says farm output would have to rise ...
Saturday, 20 March 2010 -
African leaders support agribusiness plan at UN-backed conference
Category: Commodity News/Agriculture & Softs Commodity News
... agriculture and industry – and organized by UNIDO, with the African Union (AU), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the UN Economic ...
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 -
State of Food & Agriculture: FAO
Category: Commodity Reports/Agriculture & Softs Commodity Reports
Rome, 18 February 2010 FAO report analyzes the rapidly changing global livestock production: Livestock contribute 40% of the global value of agricultural output and support the livelihoods and food security ...
Thursday, 18 February 2010 -
FAO warns on increase in tea supplies
Category: Commodity News/Commodity News
Source: Financial Times, 22nd December 2009 Tea prices reached record levels this year but should ease in 2010 as weather patterns returned to normal in the main tea-producing regions of Asia and Africa. ...
Tuesday, 22 December 2009 -
High tea prices
Category: Commodity Reports/Agriculture & Softs Commodity Reports
Rome, 22 December 2009 Tea prices reached record levels this year but should ease in 2010 as weather patterns returned to normal in the main tea-producing regions of Asia and Africa, FAO said. The ...
Tuesday, 22 December 2009 -
New climate change measurement agreement signed
Category: Commodity News/Environmental Markets & Commodities
Rome, 10 December 2009 Recognizing the importance of monitoring greenhouse gas emissions in climate change mitigation, FAO and Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) signed an agreement ...
Thursday, 10 December 2009 -
Food prices up again
Category: Commodity News/Agriculture & Softs Commodity News
Rome, 9 December 2009 Grain stocks buffer against 2008 crisis replay: Global food prices are on the ascent again with the FAO Food Price Index – a food basket composed of cereals, oilseeds, dairy, meat ...
Wednesday, 09 December 2009 -
FAO launches new climate change mitigation programme
Category: Commodity News/Agriculture & Softs Commodity News
Rome, 8 December 2009 Finland is the first country to contribute to a $60 million FAO programme to support climate change mitigation in agriculture in developing countries. The multi-donor programme ...
Tuesday, 08 December 2009