Science news articles about 'food and agriculture organization'

... sought a reexamination of the Enola patent. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and ETC ... are held in trust with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The genebanks house a total ...

... in a paper today. The 2007 statistics from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations indicate that from 1990 to 2005 the world lost 3% of its total ...

... of salinity and CO2 According to data supplied by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), some 20% of irrigated arable surface area is subject ...

ROME, July 16 (UPI) -- A global survey to assess deforestation will be conducted by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and its partners, the U.N. organization in Rome said.

ROME, July 23 (UPI) -- A new, downloadable database on the world's soils can help tackle climate change and food production, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome said.

... which poses a risk to other north African and European countries but not humans, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday ...

... with representatives from the United Nations Development Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the Myanma Agriculture Service (MAS) to discuss how IRRI can help ...

... .5% will be needed at least until 2020. The meeting coincided with the release of a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations stating that higher ...

... hunger." For decades the IAEA, in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has assisted its Member States to produce more, better and safer ...

... . The 2007-08 30-year low inventory resulted in the United Nation's Food and Agricultural Organization Food Price Index increasing ...

... as in corn," Paterson said. "According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, sorghum yields increased less than 1 percent per year over the last ...

... changing lands The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) maintains a database of detailed satellite images taken over the last 20 ...

... . An international team of experts led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations developed an agronomic model called AquaCrop to address the need ...

... . "We found here that is not the case." By analyzing data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for temporal trends in the number of commercial bee hives, they found that the global ...

... , Namibia and Nigeria. Forest stocks in the latter three countries are in decline, according to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization, as they are on a global scale, especially in the developing ...