Zero Hunger: Our actions today are our future tomorrow

Zero Hunger: Our actions today are our future tomorrow

(VOVWORLD) - Just three years ago, in September 2015, all United Nations Member States approved the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The eradication of hunger and all forms of malnutrition (Sustainable Development Goal number...
The world fights food waste

The world fights food waste

(VOVWORLD) - The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that about 800 million people, including 500 million in Asia-Pacific, suffer from hunger. The FAO says one third of food produced in the...
Vietnam praised for contributions to FAO

Vietnam praised for contributions to FAO

(VOVworld) - Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) José Graziano da Silva has hailed Vietnam’s participation and contributions of the FAO while receiving Permanent Representative of Vietnam to...
Vietnam steps up Ebola response

Vietnam steps up Ebola response

(VOVworld) – The Emergency Operation Centre of the Vietnamese Health Ministry held an emergency meeting this week to review Ebola preventative measures in Vietnam with experts from the World Health Organisation, the US Centre...
FAO praises Vietnam’s poverty reduction

FAO praises Vietnam’s poverty reduction

(VOVworld) - The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) considers Vietnam a successful model in agricultural development, rural modernization, poverty reduction, and national food security
Ukraine’s crisis boosts global food prices

Ukraine’s crisis boosts global food prices

(VOVworld) – Global food prices rose to a 10-month high in March due to bad weather in the United States and Brazil and tensions in Ukraine, the United Nations Food and Agriculture...
Eating insects in Hanoi

Eating insects in Hanoi

(VOVworld) – Locusts, crickets, ants, silkworm cocoons, and stink bugs…just mentioning these small insects makes some people shiver
Vietnam shares disaster preparedness experience

Vietnam shares disaster preparedness experience

(VOVworld) – Ambassador Le Hoai Trung, Vietnam’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, shared Vietnam’s experience on disaster preparedness at the release of the UN report “Dare to Prepare:...
Seminar on the prospects for the agricultural market

Seminar on the prospects for the agricultural market

(VOVworld)- The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Danish Embassy and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization jointly held a seminar entitled “ Prospects for the Vietnamese Agricultural Market in...
APCAS 24 opens in Da Lat

APCAS 24 opens in Da Lat

(VOV/VNA) - The 24th meeting of the Asia-Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics (APCAS 24) opened in Da Lat city of the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on Monday,...
Vietnam supports FAO initiaves and activities

Vietnam supports FAO initiaves and activities

(VOVworld) - Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung says Vietnam will continue to support future initiatives and activities of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization