WASHINGTON, March 13, 2014 -- The increased production of genetically modified crops around the world has led to a higher number of incidents of low levels of GMOs being detected in traded food and ...

Wheat, beans and cassava are among the crops that could lose up to half of their "best or optimally suitable” growing land by 2100 due to climate change, the FAO has warned. Plantain and coffee have ...

The FAO wants to improve standards across the world’s genebanks to improve the conservation of crop diversity which in turn means securing resilient global food supplies. The Food and Agriculture ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. On October 3, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and WFP will commence ...

The Department of Agronomy at the UCO improves, together with the IAS - CSIC, the AquaCrop model by introducing the option ofsimulatingalfalfa yield with precision AquaCrop is the crop growth ...

A consultation of experts convened at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has recommended that any responsible deployment of genetically modified (GM) crops needs to comprise the whole ...

The increased production of genetically modified crops around the globe has led to a higher number of incidents of low levels of GMOs being detected in traded food and feed, FAO said on Thursday. The ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will host a major conference on plant breeding techniques to meet some of today’s biggest agricultural challenges, such as climate change, diseases and ...

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PARIS: Natural and man-made disasters have caused $3.8 trillion in crop and livestock losses over 30 years, the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization said on Friday. Floods, droughts, insect ...

They say information is power; in South Sudan, information is life. Today, FAO launched a $9 million project on information for decision making for food and nutrition security. This initiative will ...