A landmark treaty aimed at denying port access to foreign boats engaged in illegal fishing has been signed by the United States and ...
UN food official questions world's commitment to fighting hunger The director of a U.N. food agency questioned Wednesday how world powers could commit ...
As the United Nations food agency meets in Rome to discuss ways to combat global hunger, Brazil's President Luiz Inacia Lula da Silva can tout the success of his country's "Zero Hunger" program. While the country still faces major challenges, including massive ...
ROME (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Monday that agreeing a climate change deal in Copenhagen next month is crucial to fighting global hunger, which Brazil's president described as "the most devastating weapon of mass destruction." Government leaders and officials met ...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon opened a UN food security summit on Monday calling for a "single global vision" to address the plight of the world's billion hungry people. "We must craft a single global vision ... to produce real results for ...
Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because of insufficient nutrition, according to a new report published by UNICEF before a three-day international summit on the problem of world hunger. The head of a U.N. food agency called on ...
US Agriculture officials to survey Missouri farmers about this year's production Agriculture officials will be surveying farmers to determine if expected yields met expectations this year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agriculture Statistics Service plans to poll farmers during the first ...
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, left, attends the inaugural ceremony of a World Summit on Food Security organized by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in Rome, Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. The trial of Premier Silvio Berlusconi on a tax fraud ...
ROME (Reuters) - World leaders and government officials at a U.N. food summit agreed on Monday to boost agricultural aid to poor nations, but set no target nor a timeframe for action. A final declaration adopted on the first day of the ...
Iran's first lady makes rare public appearance, speech in Rome for UN hunger summit Iran's first lady made rare public appearance and even more rare, a speech, at a Rome forum on the eve of a U.N. summit to fight hunger beginning ...
Rice where there was none: Kenyan irrigation shows gov't investment can stem food shortages Joram Abiero remembers it was not too long ago that his neighbors went to bed hungry. Now they and thousands of others in the lowlands of western Kenya ...
UN food chief stages hunger strike ahead of summit; sleeps on HQ floor in scarf, coat The U.N. food chief said Saturday he was chilly but otherwise slept OK after his first night on a hunger strike to draw attention to the ...
