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Cancer patients, survivors, supporters and caregivers undertake UAE's first relay for life

- Sharjah, the third largest of the United Arab Emirate's seven emirates, was the host for the MENA region's first ever ...

Indonesian farmer receives FAO "model farmers" awards

Ulus Primawan, a farmer from Lembang of West Java, has received the "Asia-Pacific Model Farmers" award from the Food ...

FAO focus on "Food Security" this World Food Day supported by CropLife Asia

This World Food Day CropLife Asia commended the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for its ...

World Food Program seeks 75 million dollars for Rohingya crisis

The World Food Program (WFP) appealed on Sunday for 75 million dollars in emergency aid over the next six months to ...

Government to synchronize development plans with UN SDGs

The Indonesian government, through the Ministry of National Development Planning and the National Development Planning ...

Biotech/GM crops surge to a new peak of 185.1 million hectares in 2016

- Today, the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) released its annual report ...

Pope Francis appeals for urgent food aid to help famine-stricken South Sudan

Pope Francis called on Wednesday for urgent humanitarian aid for the starving people of South Sudan, saying millions ...

British-Algerian journalist dies after hunger strike in Algiers

A British-Algerian journalist had died six months after staging a hunger strike in Algiers over his detention for ...

Mosul residents fear cold and hunger of winter siege

No food or fuel has reached Mosul in nearly a week and the onset of rain and cold weather threatens a tough winter for ...

EARTH WIRE -- Food tax could tackle climate change and save half a million lives: Study

Taxing food on the basis of planet-warming emissions generated to produce it could boost the fight against climate ...

No more rice imports this year: President Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has assured that Indonesia will not import rice at the end of this year because the ...

President Jokowi leaves for Boyolali to commemorate World Food Day

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and First Lady Iriana left for Boyolali District, Central Java Province, to attend a ...

Drought hits East Nusa Tenggara

A drought has parched parts of East Nusa Tenggara Province in Indonesia and is feared to cause crop failures, slow ...

Biotech/GM crops planted on two billion hectares from 1996 to 2015

- Today, the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) released its ...

500 dead in Syria regime`s Aeppo assault

A Russian-backed regime onslaught in northern Syria was reported to have killed more than 500 people this month, as ...