FAO: Appeal for New World Agricultural Order
ROME - FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf yesterday (20 November) appealed to world leaders to meet together next year to design a new agricultural order and find $30 billion a year to eradicate hunger from the Earth once and for all.

Cremonini Sale to JBS Boosts Profits
ITALY - In the first half of 2008 Italian beef processing giant Cremonini Group achieved total consolidated revenues of €1,101.2 million , equal to an increase of 7.7 per cent compared to €1,022.0 million for the same period of 2007.

Food Summit Calls Out for More Ag Investment
ROME, ITALY – The Summit on soaring food prices, convened by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), has concluded with the adoption by acclamation of a declaration calling on the international community to increase assistance for developing countries,...

"New Agriculture” Needs New FAO
ROME - Agriculture will play a crucial role in the key issues facing humanity this century, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said today. “I should like to see the new agriculture aligned with a new FAO”.

Shifts In Global Meat Production Brings Disease
ROME - Livestock producers should invest more in biosecurity and disease monitoring

Growing bio-fuel demand underpinning higher agriculture prices
ROME - Increased demand for bio-fuels is causing fundamental changes to agricultural markets that could drive up world prices for many farm products, according to a new report published by the OECD and FAO.

Foot And Mouth Under Control In North Korea
NORTH KOREA – The recent outbreak of the highly contagious Foot-and-Mouth Disease in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was probably a single case and appears to be under control, FAO and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said today...