The Latest Breaking News from FAO

In NASCAR, teams usually have little hope of overturning penalties issued by the sanctioning body, but it's not impossible. Richard Childress Racing is appealing last weekend's NASCAR Xfinity Series disqualification, aiming to get Jesse Love's Rockingham victory reinstated. Earlier this year, Joe Gibbs Racing successfully won an appeal that rescinded…

Around the world, plastics are finding their way into farm fields

Protesters fear than a plan to modernise agriculture could leave the lower riparian province of Sindh without water.

Avian influenza has been spreading among wild birds for years, but spillover into mammals and people has experts worried.

Moves by US, UK and other donors to cut aid mean ‘high malnutrition rates, starvation and death’, say experts

The world's biggest nature conservation conference resumes in Rome next week for an urgent attempt at overcoming a deadlock between northern and southern countries over funding for nature protection.

"Rising temperatures, shifting precipitation, and emerging diseases are among the mélange of climate impacts . . ."

From 2020-2024, fish production dropped 20% in the world’s longest freshwater lake serving Tanzania and its neighbours.

World food commodity prices declined by 2.1 percent in 2024 compared to the previous year, the FAO said on Friday, but they remain considerably higher than before the Covid-19 pandemic.

Is it justifiable to continue not recognising the Taliban government, which has been in power for more than three years? This stance does nothing to improve the situation of Afghan women and prevents the international community from fully engaging on other critical issues in the country. Report from the field…

Scientists say climate crisis and poor agricultural practices to blame with serious implications for crop yields