The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today that its credit-based farming project in Niger has been so successful that the agency plans to scale it up and expand into Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal, which are also suffering food shortages.
A funding gap will keep food and medicine away from millions of needy people in Pakistan, a top United Nations aid worker said today as he called for stepped-up support from the international community.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said today it is partnering with an organic farming organization to examine the potential economic, employment and environmental benefits of greater investment in sustainable agriculture in the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia region.
Participants at the United Nations climate change talks in Bonn have agreed to intensify their negotiating schedule in hopes of reaching a strong outcome in Mexico later this year after world leaders were unable to agree on a binding treaty in Copenhagen last December.
The Department of Environmental Protection issued an administrative order today to Allied Waste Systems of Pennsylvania that outlines a series of steps the company must take to address odors from its ...
As of 4 April 2010, worldwide more than 213 countries and overseas territories or communities have reported laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009, including over 17700 deaths.
The Ministry of Health of Egypt has announced a new human cases of A(H5N1) avian influenza infection.