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WHO classifies non-sugar sweetener Aspartame as possibly carcinogenic to h
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) released the assessments of the aspartame.
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Cereal production projected to reach record high in 2023/24: FAO
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
FAO raised its 2023 global cereal production forecast to 2 819 million tonnes, indicating a 1.1 per cent increase from the previous year.
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FAO Food Price Index continued declining in June
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The FAO Food Price Index which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of commonly-traded food commodities, averaged 122.3 points in June, down 1.4 per cent from May and 23.4 per cent from its peak in March 2022.
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FAO's global GEF approved 26 projects worth USD 174.7 million
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Building on the growing momentum to tackle environmental problems by addressing the ways in which our food and fibre are produced, the Global Environment Facility has approved 26 projects led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
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SHE Changes Climate India Ambassador Shreya Ghodawat talks about policy re
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 15: Shreya Ghodawat, a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and CEO of Sustainable Guides (a sustainable consultancy) represented India at a High-Level Dialogue on 'Women championing resilience for climate, energy and food security' held in Geneva in the context of W
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11-year-old British girl shot dead in France in dispute over garden
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
According to an administrative worker at the town hall of Plonevez-du-Faou Regine Guillot, the shooting was caused due to a disagreement over gardening noise and cutting down of trees bordering the properties.
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Pakistan, Afghanistan among global food shortage 'hotspots': Report
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Warnings on Pakistan and Afghanistan have been issued in a report jointly published by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP).
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Global push to step up action against illegal, unreported, unregulated fis
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The Parties also agreed to take the Global Information Exchange System (GIES), a digital system developed by FAO at the request of the Parties, from its current pilot phase to a fully operational system by the end of this year.
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Afghanistan: FAO warns of severe locust outbreak across 8 provinces
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has issued a warning about a widespread Moroccan locust outbreak across eight provinces in Afghanistan's wheat-growing north and northeast region, Khaama Press reported.
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Afghanistan facing high levels of "acute" food insecurity, says FAO senior
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
As Afghanistan humanitarian crisis continues to remain a concern for the global community, Maximo Torero, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)'s senior economist said that the population of the war-torn country is currently "facing high levels of acute food insecurity, not only in mag
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Crops seeds return from space in IAEA/FAO project to help feed warming wor
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
To support these farmers and improve global food security, the IAEA and FAO, through their Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, sent seeds into space to explore the effects of cosmic radiation on speeding up natural, genetic adaptation of much needed crops. Th
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Benchmark for world food commodity prices fall in March for 12th consecuti
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of commonly-traded food commodities, averaged 126.9 points in March 2023, down 2.1 per cent from the previous month and 20.5 per cent below its peak level of March 2022.
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