Tag Archives : Food and Agriculture Organization

The problem of food insecurity affects the world’s small-scale farms and rural areas the most. This is because these places are also where ‘70 percent of the world’s hungry live and work.’ As the world commemorates World Food Day on October 16, some depressing statistics confront the governments of the world: an estimated increase of 105 [...]

The first study to determine the overall state of conservation of 64 species of shark and ray-sea revealed that 32% are threatened with extinction, says IUCN. The threat comes primarily from overfishing, according to the experts. According to them, the sharks are “highly vulnerable” to this practice because it takes many years for several [...]

International investors continue to cast their sights on farmlands, especially the best ones, in the African continent. These arable lands constitute the livelihood of local people who are likely to lose access, but African governments pay little attention to them. This phenomenon was analyzed in detail for the first time by experts from the International [...]