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Give women farm sector power
Oped, Published on 06/03/2024
» Despite women's significant contributions to our agrifood systems in the Asia-Pacific region, women continue to face persistent obstacles, including limited access to resources, services, and discriminatory practices all along the food value chain. As we gather to celebrate this year's International Women's Day (IWD), it is time for action to fully recognise women's indispensable role in the fields, in the factories, and those running small and medium-sized companies, associations and cooperatives -- all of which produce the nutritious food we eat each day.
Time to be the agents of change
News, Published on 12/02/2024
» We all know that we live in a changing world. In the vast area of Asia and the Pacific that change is most evident. Over the past 20 years, the economies of many nations in the region have been moving out of the category of "least developed" and graduating into a "middle income" status. However, the positive changes that help to make our lives better, healthier, and more prosperous, are not happening at the same time equally across all countries, or even equitably within them.
FAO Director-General Explores ASEAN's Largest Wholesale Agricultural Market
Published on 17/01/2024
» Mr Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, accompanied by Mr Pisan Pongsapitch, Secretary-General of the National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards, recently visited Talaad Thai, the largest agricultural wholesale market in ASEAN. Talaad Thai spans a total area of 543 rai, located on Phaholyothin Road in Pathum Thani province. There are over 12,000 tonnes of agricultural product volume circulated in the market, with more than 100,000 sellers and buyers, and a daily turnover of more than 290 million baht. The FAO Director-General and group spent almost 2 hours discussing and touring several areas in Talaad Thai, such as the Seasonal Fruit Market, Vegetable Market, and laboratory, which serves as the quality control unit for all products in Talaad Thai. On this occasion, Mr Pradit Phataraprasit, Advisory Chairman of the Thai Agricultural Wholesale Market Association, along with executives from Thai Agro Exchange Company Limited, namely Mr Suthep Wongvorazathe, Chairman and Chairman of the Executive Board, Mr Surapong Supunpong, Director, and Mr Chokchai Kolsrichai, Managing Director, extended a warm welcome.
Mitigating climate change impacts
News, Published on 07/12/2023
» Growing up on a small rice farm in China in the 1960's, my family was keenly aware that any single adverse weather event could wipe out a year's worth of effort. The climate and weather patterns are something a farmer feels in his bones, but changes in these patterns and the extremity of events have, in recent years, shocked rural communities. We never imagined seasons might alter at the pace and scale we see today, bringing losses and damage that undermine years of hard-won rural development.
Water the key to food security
Oped, Published on 11/10/2023
» This year's World Food Day celebrates one of the planet's most precious resources: water. It's essential to life on Earth. It covers the majority of the planet's surface, makes up over 50% of our bodies, helps keep us fed, supports livelihoods and is central to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
King Bhumibol award for soil scientists
News, Post Reporters, Published on 06/12/2022
» Two soil scientists from Mexico have been named the winners of the King Bhumibol World Soil Day Award 2022.
Princess calls on region to end hunger
News, Post Reporters, Published on 18/10/2022
» Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn has called on countries in the Asia-Pacific region to prioritise the right of all people to food, nutrition, peace and equality.
Russia-Ukraine war's effects on global food security
Oped, Published on 15/03/2022
» Over the past two years, Covid-19 has presented many challenges to global food security. Today, what is happening in Russia and Ukraine adds another significant challenge.
Transforming our agrifood systems
Oped, Published on 03/03/2022
» The current nutrition situation in Asia and the Pacific is difficult in many areas across the region. About 40% of its inhabitants cannot afford a healthy diet, and in some areas the fight against hunger has seen reversals rather than advances.
Agri-food systems need to shape up
Oped, Published on 15/10/2021
» This year's World Food Day, which wraps up tomorrow, finds us at a critical moment. The Covid-19 pandemic remains a global challenge, causing untold losses and hardship. The impact of the climate crisis are all around us. Crops have gone up in flames. Homes have been washed away. Lives and livelihoods have been thrown into turmoil due to conflict and other humanitarian emergencies. Global food security challenges have not been this severe for years.