"As a government entity, at USDA we don’t pick and choose what’s good – what’s bad," said Chou. "We just tell you what’s useful. In the U.S. we always say we have a big umbrella: we have organic agriculture, we have conventional agriculture, we have biotech agriculture. They all coexist with each other. It is ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 25 November, 2018 | Topics:
Agriculture, Key Officials, News
| Tags: agriculture, Biotechnology, FAO, farmers, Innovation
On United Nations Day, we recognize the many ways the United Nations has contributed to peace and security among nations. Since it was founded more than 70 years ago with the aim of breaking the cycle of global conflict, the United Nations has provided a forum for nations to resolve conflicts peacefully in an increasingly complex world.
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By USUN Rome Mission | 23 October, 2018 | Topics:
Key Officials, News
| Tags: President Trump, Presidential Proclamation, United Nations, Whitehouse
This week marks the formal opening of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, with High-Level week beginning on September 24. The United States will be actively engaged across a wide spectrum of UNGA events and activities, and will frame that engagement around five broad policy priorities: non-proliferation; humanitarian assistance and food security; ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 21 September, 2018 | Topics:
Key Officials, News
| Tags: UNGA
We have entered a period of food insecurity not seen since the founding of the United Nations at the end of the Second World War, with 80 million people across the globe now living in highly food insecure environments. Twenty million are in fact so severely food insecure that many of them are in danger ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 15 November, 2017 | Topics:
Agriculture, Chargé D’Affaires, Key Officials, News
| Tags: Humanitarian Assistance, WFP, World Food Program
Remarks by Chargé d’Affaires Thomas Duffy July 7th, 2017 Villa San Sebastiano Thanks to our wonderful singer, Soprano Fabiana Rossi. Thanks also to the US Marine Corps Color Guard: Staff Sergeant Stephen Clark, Sergeant Edward Suess, Sergeant Robert Lynch, Sergeant Marcos Bocanegra, and Sergeant Jeremiah Thomas. Also representing the Department of the Navy are ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 9 July, 2017 | Topics:
Chargé D’Affaires, Deputy Chief of Mission, Key Officials, Speeches, U.S. & USUN Rome
| Tags: 4th of July 2017, Independence Day 2017
The world must bridge the gap between humanitarian and development assistance, while also sustaining our long-term efforts to eliminate hunger and malnutrition. The Rome-based agencies are critical to filling this gap. The United States remains firmly committed to combatting poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition, improving agricultural productivity, expanding opportunities for rural economic growth, and bettering ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 5 July, 2017 | Topics:
Agriculture, Key Officials, News
| Tags: FAO, FAO Conference 40, Food waste; USDA; Food Loss;
USUN Political/Economic Officer Daleya Uddin recently joined other representatives from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)'s member countries on visits to observe the particular food security and agriculture challenges in Morocco and Sudan. Her video report below provides a glimpse into those challenges, as well as the innovative FAO projects making a ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 29 April, 2017 | Topics:
Africa, Agriculture, Environment, Key Officials, News, Official Reports
| Tags: agriculture, FAO, Nutrition
On March 13, 2017 the United States joined the International Treaty of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture that was approved at the 2001 Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). USUN Chargé d'Affaires Thomas Duffy deposited the instrument of ratification by presenting it to the Director General of ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 14 April, 2017 | Topics:
Agriculture, Chargé D’Affaires, Deputy Chief of Mission, Key Officials, News, Public Affairs, USDA
As agriculture professionals, we play a pivotal role in ending hunger and poverty. As this challenge has been confronted by numerous international organizations, faith-based groups and governments, women have emerged as playing a major role in agriculture around the globe. But often, their voices are still not heard and they are still not invited to ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 16 December, 2016 | Topics:
Agriculture, Key Officials, News, Speeches, U.S. & USUN Rome
| Tags: FAO, Food waste; USDA; Food Loss;, Nutrition, World Food Program, world food security
May 25, 2015 I’m Sheba Crocker, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, and am honored to be able to participate in this session of the Board, especially at a time when global crises are demanding more and more from WFP. We’re here today because the World Food Program is a valued ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 25 May, 2015 | Topics:
Agriculture, Key Officials, Speeches
