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The new technologies play an important role in understanding the nature and dynamics of biological threats, and FAO, in collaboration with SIB, has developed online courses on bioinformatics in viral pathogens that can help laboratory technicians, physicians, veterinarians and researchers around the world improve their work while increasing access to this emerging field of competence.

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Senegal has successfully integrated an insect birth control technique using irradiation to sterilize male flies, reducing the fly population over time. This region was selected by the Senegalese Government, as it is particularly suitable for breeds of cattle that produce more milk and meat than cattle in other areas. However, the high incidence of livestock infertility and weight loss, due to nagana, resulted in reduced meat and milk production, and cattle that were too frail to plough the land or transport produce.

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Brucellosis has become endemic in livestock across Georgia, especially in the country’s eastern region. Infected animals shed the bacteria through their milk or reproductive discharge, which in turn can contaminate communal feed, pasture and water.

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The new USAID funding will enable FAO to conduct studies in West and East Africa to identify potential reservoirs of carriers of Ebola, and Ebola-like diseases, and shed light on the possible role of livestock, if any, in transmitting the disease. Meanwhile, better understanding the epidemiology of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) will be the focus of activities in the Horn of Africa and the Near East.

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In a meeting at FAO Headquarters, 13 agencies consisting of UN and international partner organizations agreed on a way forward to reduce food losses and waste. It is estimated that nearly one billion people are chronically hungry and as many as two billion are malnourished. At the same time, as much as one third of global food production is thought to be lost or wasted before it can be consumed.

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The director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) also participated in the forum. Food loss and waste refers to food intended for human consumption that is not ultimately eaten.

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Keeping track of the enormity and nature of food loss and waste is essential to reducing the problem and to speeding efforts to eliminate hunger globally. Most food loss takes place in post-production, harvesting, transportation and storage, and is primarily related to inadequate infrastructure in developing countries, while food waste is largely a problem in the marketing and consumption stages in more developed countries.

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The more a country knows about its forests, the better it can manage and protect them for future generations. That means having accurate data on everything from forest coverage to soil fertility and tree health to natural habitats for flora and fauna. It also means understanding how forest resources are used, by whom and for what purpose.

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In some communities in Bandundu province, people grow and eat bitter cassava as their main staple, a hearty crop that thrives in drought and poor soil conditions. While an important source of carbohydrates, bitter cassava also contains high levels of cyanide. Proper processing − soaking the tubers in water for four days and drying them in the sun for another day − leaches cyanide from the cassava, making it safer to eat.

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Raymond Baptiste, head of Grenada's Ministry of Agriculture's Land Use Department, said the Government knew back in the seventies that it had a problem with land degradation because "there was visual evidence of it." Land degradation in Grenada, though moderate overall, is widespread, especially in the cropland systems. And the drivers are varied.

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Economics and Policy Innovations for Climate-Smart Agriculture (EPIC) programme that works with governments, research centres, universities and other institutional partners to support the transition to CSA by using sound economic and policy analysis. It is a programme of work aimed at identifying and harmonizing climate-smart agricultural policies, analysing impacts, effects, costs and benefits as well as incentives and barriers to the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices.

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The Mitigation of Climate change in Agriculture program contributes to global efforts to address climate change. It builds on the long-standing work carried out by FAO’s technical departments and collaborates with international and national organizations.

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The Emissions intensity (Ei) of enteric methane (CH4) varies greatly across the globe. There are a number of ongoing efforts to generate more robust estimates of mitigation potential in the livestock sector.

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Building more resilient livelihoods is increasingly recognized as one of the most powerful means to mitigate – or even prevent – food security crises. Since 2008, FAO has been at the forefront of efforts to measure the resilience capacity of people to food insecurity and the effectiveness of resilience-strengthening interventions.

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This international recognition is putting FAO on the scene once more. It is not the first time that FAO works is recognized. Among the new features on the SWALIM web site are the updated Flood Risk and Response Management Information System , and the dynamic “Live Map” platform, which presents complex data sets on an easy-to-understand map interface.

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Only by applying sustainable agricultural practices will we be able to feed the world’s growing population, today and tomorrow. To tackle this challenge and achieve food security, actors from different sectors and levels must work together.

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With rapid soil degradation, fast depletion of groundwater, excessive use of pesticides-fertilizers and extreme weather events all collectively putting stress on farming and forestry, it is time to recognise the fact that agriculture cannot remain the same, either in India or across the globe.

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Climate-smart farming is now being practiced in Africa. The objective of this program is to support the scaling of the adoption of climate-Smart Agriculture techniques to enhance livelihoods and food security of small farmers in the regions of 'Eastern and Southern Africa including Madagascar.

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The availability of essential foods and sent prices soaring, FAO said today. The number of food insecure people has grown by 12 percent since June 2015 (36 percent since late 2014), according to the UN agency. Fuel shortages and restrictions on imports — which Yemen relies on for more than 90 percent of its staple foods — have reduced the availability of essential food commodities and caused food and fuel prices to soar since conflict escalated in March 2015.

Yemen is heavily dependent on these imports, as only 4 percent of the country's land is arable and only a fraction of that land is currently used for food production.

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Tajikistan is considered the most climate-vulnerable country in Europe and Central Asia, and the degree of land degradation and deforestation is cause for deep concern. Unsustainable agricultural practices and poor management of natural resources are recognized as driving salinization and desertification of soils and land. The new agreement calls for stronger national policies to protect soils, promote gender-sensitive practices, improve resource management, and boost the agricultural sector’s resilience to climate change.