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Smart farming key to our future

Farmers today are producing food under pressures that would have been unimaginable to previous generations. Input costs are rising, supply chains are increasingly unreliable, water is becoming scarcer, and weather patterns are less predictable. For a growing number of farmers -- in Sudan, Ukraine, Myanmar and Gaza -- the challenge…

Bangkok Post · Jul 16

Food insecurity, the forgotten crisis of COP28

When it comes to climate change, the world’s food system is a double-edged sword. Food production is both one of the biggest emitters of global greenhouse gases and one of the sectors hardest hit by the effects of climate change. To reconcile these two issues, the UN’s Food and Agriculture…

France 24 · Dec 12, 2023

UN Reports Warn Floods Threaten Quarter of IDP Sites in Yemen

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) warned of floods threatening one-quarter of the Internally displaced persons' sites in Yemen. There are more than half a million individuals in these camps. Climate change and civil turbulences have widely impacted food item prices…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 5, 2023

Food Prices in Yemen at All-Time High Since 1990

The World Food Program’s (WFP) Food Security Quarterly Review on Yemen has shown that the global Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) food price index increased significantly in March 2022 to a new all-time high since 1990. It published a report stating that fertilizer prices reached their highest level since late…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Aug 1, 2022

Ukraine war ‘aggravating’ existing global food crisis, UN warns

Al Jazeera sits down with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s lead analyst for food crises.

Al Jazeera · Jun 3, 2022

World Food Prices Jump to a New Record

World food prices jumped nearly in March to a new record high as the war in Ukraine caused turmoil in markets for staple grains and edible oils, the UN food agency said on Friday. The Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) food price index, which tracks the most globally traded food…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 9, 2022

Egypt Bans Exports of Vegetable Oil and Corn for 3 Months

Egypt's trade ministry on Saturday banned exports of all kinds of vegetable oil and corn for three months starting from March 12, the ministry said in a statement. Egypt said on Thursday it was banning exports of lentils, pasta, wheat, flour and fava beans for three months from March 11.…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 12, 2022

UN Agency Warns Ukraine War Could Trigger 20% Food Price Rise

International food and feed prices could rise by between 8% and 20% as a result of the conflict in Ukraine, triggering a jump in global malnourishment, the UN food agency said on Friday. In a preliminary assessment of Russia's invasion of its neighbor, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 11, 2022