Since 1948 the UN's Food and Agriculture has been clinging to an outmoded definition of 'forests' that includes industrial wood plantations, writes WRM in this Open Letter for delivery to the FAO today, International Forests Day. This mis-definition seriously harms real forests and forest peoples as it justifies the clearance of real forests and their replacement with cash crops of trees.
… FAO: Plantations are not forests! World … WRM in this Open Letter for delivery to the FAO today, International Forests Day. This … the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), insists on defining forests [1]. The FAO …
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization's definition of 'forest' includes commercial plantations of fast growing trees - often replacing biodiverse native forests relied on by local communities. FAO must stop using this mis-definition to claim that forests are expanding, when the reverse is the case.
… FAO - a plantation is not a forest! Via … forests relied on by local communities. FAO must stop using this mis-definition to … Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), We are a broad group of social …
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization made a u-turn against organic agriculture after lobbying by the biotechnology industry, according to documents seen by the Ecologist.
… FAO backpedals on organics under agribusiness pressure 1st May 2008 News FAO Organics Agribusiness Monsanto Syngenta … The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) made a U-turn in support of organic …
All over the world, small farmers are being forced off their land to make way for corporate agriculture, writes GRAIN - and it's justified by the need to 'feed the world'. But it's the small farmers that are the most productive, and the more their land is grabbed, the more global hunger increases. We must give them their land back!
… the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) released its annual ' State of Food and … dedicated to family farming. Family farmers, FAO say, manage 70-80% of the world's farmland … share is shrinking fast. How, then, can FAO claim that family farms occupy 70 to 80% …
Competition for land, water and energy are increasing, exacerbated by climate change and a growing population. But why does the Food and Agriculture Organisation now believe indigenous people could provide a solution? Peter Giovannini investigates
… Organization of the United Nations (FAO) at the end of 2010. The new FAO policy considers 'indigenous peoples as … and puts together principles to guide FAO interactions with indigenous communities. …
You might be forgiven for thinking that climate change is all about fossil fuels, writes Chris Lang. But with livestock farming causing around a sixth of global emissions, there's one quick, cheap way to cut our carbon footprints: go vegetarian, or better still, vegan. So what's taking us so long?
… comes from the livestock sector? In 2006, the FAO produced a report on the climate impacts … gas emissions. Seven years later, the FAO produced another report , 'Tackling … climate change through livestock'. This time, FAO reports that the livestock sector …
Our excessive appetite for meat is taking a heavy toll on the planet, but as Simon Fairlie explains, the arguments used to depict omnivores as environmental super-villains are far too simplistic.
… the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) published a comprehensive analysis of … that can’t be used by humans. In 1997, the FAO estimated that, worldwide, animals … ‘Livestock’s Long Shadow’, published by the FAO, whose widely publicised press release …
Analysis showing lower greenhouse gas emissions associated with intensive livestock production could pose a challenge to our views on best farming practice
… the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) report, ‘Livestock’s Long Shadow ’ back … less emissions per unit of output, says the FAO ‘I agree it runs contrary to animal … of undernourished humans,’ he adds. New FAO analysis Mitloehner’s point looks likely …
UN wants to use the figures to push for a wider adoption of more intensive forms of dairy production, which it says produce less emissions per unit of milk
… Dairy Climate Change bigdairycow.jpg The FAO want all countries to adopt more … the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) . The vast majority of emissions, 93 per … refrigeration and disposal of packaging. The FAO estimated back in 2006 that the livestock …
UN Report: 34 percent of agricultural land is degraded, water is overdrawn.
… Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). For now, farmers have been able to … published at Yale Climate Connections . The FAO report discusses some important climate … million hectares - of agricultural land,” the FAO reports. “The treatment of soils with …
Small farmers are losing out as the world's farmland is becoming concentrated in ever fewer hands - and food security is suffering as a consequence. If we do nothing to reverse this trend, writes Stephen Leahy, the world will lose its capacity to feed itself.
… seek only speculation and profit" , she said. FAO's wild over-estimate corrected With the … Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and many agriculture experts acknowledged … smallholders. "I couldn't believe it when the FAO said family farms manage 70% of all …
The global catch of fish and seafood is falling at three times the rate reported by the United Nations and urgently needs to be slowed to avoid a crash, reports Christopher Pala. The finding comes in a new study for Nature which quantifies the huge illegal industrial fish pillaging taking place around the world, together with artisanal catches, which in 2010 added over 50% to UN estimates.
… than the catch that countries reported to the FAO, whose latest assessment rated the global … industrial catch was being reported to the FAO. So the European fleets took three … higher than the catch London reported to the FAO, as an average of the 60-year period. …
Plans for US-style mega-dairy farms in the UK are being heralded for their potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but scaling up may create as many problems as it attempts to solve reports Tom Levitt
… the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) earlier this year. The FAO assessment also revealed emissions per … use of anaerobic digesters. According to the FAO, methane emissions from slurry can be …
Scott Tips is president of the National Health Federation, a legitimate advocate of food consumer rights. He has for years been fighting powerful lobbyists as they try and influence regulators around the world through the WHO Codex Alimentarius agency. COLIN TODHUNTER investigates
… by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), … the issues discussed in Codex meetings. The FAO says: “Codex standards are based on the … bodies or ad-hoc consultations organized by FAO and WHO.” Although Codex offers …
With 60 percent of the world's caloric intake now coming from only three crops: rice, maize and wheat PIERINA BENITES ALFARO discusses what can be done to promote Agro-biodiversity and its use as a strategy to adapt to climate change
… Recently, the book "Strategy for FAO's work on climate" (July, 2017) … Even so, it continues to gain momentum (FAO, 2010) . Quinoa varieties Our selective … only three crops: rice, maize and wheat (FAO, 1995) . "Our ancestors knew how to take …
Widely quoted figures of the need to double food production by 2050 have been used to justify an expansion of industrial factory farming, but have been brought into question by a new report
… the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) from 2006 , does not actually make the … 2030). More recent calculations, based on the FAO report, show a need to increase food … World agriculture: towards 2030/2050 - FAO Report READ MORE... GREEN LIVING Each …
Fish and other sea mammals are paying a heavy price for the tonnes of lost or abandoned fishing gear in our oceans
… Natural World Fish Fishing Nets FAO UNEP Litter Marine Boats Crab Weather … the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UN Environment Programme (UNEP). As … to redress the situation, said Ichiro Nomura, FAO assistant director-general for fisheries …
Governments must shift subsidies and research funding from agro-industrial monoculture to small farmers using 'agroecological' methods, according to the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. And as Nafeez Ahmed notes, her call coincides with a new agroecology initiative within the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation.
… to the UN Food & Agricultural Organisation (FAO), 70% of food we consume globally comes … and Nutrition Security in Rome, hosted by the FAO. Over 50 experts participated in the … the European Union agricultural commissioner. FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva …
Everyone loves family farming! And so they should, writes Holly Creighton-Hird, as family farms produce most of the world's food. But the UK Government has a funny way of showing it - favouring corporate agriculture and eliminating farm payments for small land holdings. It's up to us, the public, to support small, high welfare producers.
… year. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has declared 2014 … both national and global food security. The FAO has found that worldwide, family farms are … UK. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has declared 2014 …
Eifion Rees talks to the Compassion in World Farming veteran and co-editor of The Meat Crisis - a shocking new book that exposes the range of environmental and health threats facing us if we don't kick our addiction to meat
… the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) predicts total global meat consumption … hard to keep consumption up. JD: Yes. The FAO's Dr Samuel Jutzi recently told the CIWF annual lecture what huge pressure the FAO itself comes under from agribusiness …
‘Climate Smart Agriculture' can be applied to anything from industrial monocultures to agroecology, writes Helena Paul - and fertiliser, biotech and agribusiness corporations are seizing the chance to cash in. Now COP21 host France is proposing to use soils as a giant carbon sink - a fine idea in itself, but not if it's used to 'offset' continued fossil fuel emissions, and to greenwash industrial agriculture.
… Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome (FAO) defines it as : "agriculture that … food security and development goals." FAO wants to include forestry and the … of global energy consumption. According to FAO , synthetic fertiliser application is …
Social justice movements are finding human rights-based solutions to hunger and the climate crisis and holding global legislators to account.
… Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and its multi-stakeholder platform, the … corporations Like other parts of the UN, the FAO is often muddled with bureaucratic … Climate-smart agriculture, an approach that FAO claims is in line with its vision of …
Seeds are essential to our food and our entire lives, writes Rowan Phillimore. So join in celebrating and sharing them at a series of events this month in London, Bristol, Devon, Oxford, Lancaster, Herts - and begin the fightback against corporate domination of seeds and oppressive government regulation.
… The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) estimates that in the last 100 years … more, this loss is on the increase and the FAO states plainly that "loss of biodiversity …