FAO Food Price Index Virtually Unchanged In August
08 September 2025, Rome: The benchmark of world food commodity prices remained largely unchanged in August, as increases in meat, sugar and
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New Report Exposes Pervasive Gender Inequalities In Sub-saharan Africa’s Agrifood Systems, Despite Women Powering Half The Agrifood Workforce
05 September 2025, Dakar: In sub-Saharan Africa, approximately three out of four working women (76 percent) are employed in agrifood systems, and women
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2024 First Year With Global Temperatures Exceeding 1.5° Celsius0
04 September 2025, UN: The World Meteorological Organization reported that 2024 was the first entire year with global temperatures exceeding 1.5° Celsius
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Lesotho’s Potato Priority
28 August 2025, Lesotho: Amidst craggy peaks and rolling highland plateaus characteristic of the Lesotho’s terrain, there is a remote town in
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New Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (Giahs) In Italy And Japan Push Global Total Of Designated Sites Past 100
27 August 2025, Rome: A former iron sand mine transformed into a terraced agro-silvo-pastoral system, a landscape of stone-walled citrus orchards in
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Sealing Jars, Opening Doors
19 August 2025, UN: Jars brimming with assorted produce sit neatly stacked on the table—freshly made pickles, jams and deep-red tomato paste.
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Mad for “Madd de Casamance’’
12 August 2025, Africa: For generations, communities in the Casamance region of southern Senegal have gathered wild madd fruit from forest vines.
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Gaza Strip: 98.5 Percent Of Cropland Unavailable For Cultivation As Famine Looms
11 August 2025, Rome: As famine looms in the Gaza Strip, a new assessment conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
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FAO Food Price Index Edges Up In July
08 August 2025, Rome: The FAO Food Price Index, a benchmark for world food commodity prices, averaged 130.1 points in July 2025,
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FAO Director-General’s Papal Audience with His Holiness Pope Leo XIV
07 August 2025, Vatican City: The FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, had a Papal Audience with His Holiness Pope Leo XIV at the
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