Tag: Food and Agriculture Organization

A consultant remembers

The future of the UN and its various political and development agencies is being actively discussed by its members and the public at large.

March 18, 2019

UN uses real-time satellite data to track water productivity

A new tool offered by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN uses real-time satellite data to track water productivity in agriculture, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Thursday. "The WaPOR open-access database has gone live online as of today, tapping satellite data to help farmers achieve more reliable agricultural yields and allowing …

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April 21, 2017

Hunger no more

It was around this time last year that the world's leaders came together and committed to endhunger by 2030.

December 7, 2016