"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
By Heather Eaton. Getting out of Rome and into the field to see international humanitarian projects in action is an essential part of representing the United States at the United Nations food and agricultural agencies in Rome. Visiting the operating grounds of these projects and meeting beneficiaries allows us to see firsthand how U.S. contributions to ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 2 November, 2017 | Topics:
Agriculture, News, Public Affairs, Success Stories
| Tags: agriculture, development, FAO
American farmers are selling more of their crops to the rest of the world than ever before in the history of U.S. agriculture. “Today, America’s farmers feed not only our nation, but millions of people around the world,” President Trump said earlier this year as he signed an executive order aimed at promoting American agriculture and lowering ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 16 October, 2017 | Topics:
Agriculture, News
| Tags: agriculture, farmers
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
An open letter signed by more than 100 Nobel Prize winners — that’s one-third of living science laureates — calls on governments around the world to approve genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and exhorts environmental opponents to stop fighting biotechnological innovations. “How many poor people in the world must die before we consider this a ‘crime ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 30 June, 2016 | Topics:
Agriculture, News, Science & Tech
| Tags: agriculture, GMO, Nobel
Farmers in Mozambique, like those in other developing countries I have visited, consistently said they want one thing most of all – to move beyond subsistence farming to a modern agricultural economy. They seek business skills to improve and diversify their production, so that they can increase their incomes and provide more opportunities for their ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 28 January, 2015 | Topics:
Africa, Agriculture, News
| Tags: agri-buisness, agriculture, Entrepreneurship, mozambique
In the middle of a sun-drenched field in central Mozambique, Otilia Vasco, a farmer from Choridzo village, pointed to an easel illustrating demonstration plots the villagers were sowing under the guidance of a facilitator from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and explained excitedly how these test plots would help them choose the best ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 16 January, 2015 | Topics:
Agriculture, Former U.S. Ambassadors, News
| Tags: agriculture, famer training, mozambique, women farmers
One of the goals of my recent journey to Cambodia focused on exploring opportunities for transforming Cambodia's agriculture sector. Cambodia’s challenge is to produce enough nutritious and broadly accessible food to support a healthy, productive population and drive the growth of the national economy
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By USUN Rome Mission | 30 December, 2013 | Topics:
Agriculture, Former U.S. Ambassadors, News
| Tags: agriculture, blog, Cambodia
On the way to Hoyohoyo Village, south of Dar es Salaam, we learned how diseases like Cassava Mosaic Disease and Brown Streak Disease, in addition to drought, have been severely affecting cassava crops in the region, undermining both the food security and livelihoods of small holder farmers. To tackle these blights, the Government of Tanzania, ...
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By USUN Rome Mission | 24 January, 2013 | Topics:
Agriculture, Environment, Public Affairs
| Tags: agriculture, development, Media Tour, Tanzania, USUN Rome
