Tag: agriculture

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched the United Nations’ International Year of Plant Health (IYPH) for 2020, which aims to raise global awareness on how protecting plant health can help end hunger, reduce poverty, protect the environment, and boost economic development.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Danone have agreed to work together to improve global nutrition and food safety knowledge, and promote responsible agricultural value chains for more sustainable food systems.

Green agriculture has a vast potential to transform the agricultural sector in a way that enables access for everyone to nutritious food and at the same time ensures conservation of crucial natural resources, FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu said.

Students from universities across Australia and the world are taking part in the GrainGrowers Crops Competition at the Roseworthy Campus, University of Adelaide. They will be applying their knowledge around crop production in a practical setting, taking their classroom knowledge into a paddock perspective. The…