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China

UN food body elects first Chinese head as climate crisis worsens

China's vice minister for agriculture was elected on Sunday to lead the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the first Chinese national to run the 74-year-old agency at a time when climate change is leaving more people hungry.

23/06/2019

World News

Mediterranean is world’s most overfished sea: report

A third of the the world’s commercial fish species are being caught at unsustainable levels, with overfishing at its most severe in the Mediterranean and Black Sea, according to a new report by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

09/07/2018

World News

Euroviews. View: Being bold in the battle against antibiotic-resistant bacteria

The car manufacturer Volvo made the bold move of stopping production of fossil-fuel vehicles by 2019. Why we need more grit like that in the existential fight against microbial resistance.

12/07/2017

Italy

Pope Francis calls for people to live together in solidarity

20/11/2014

World News

Action on malnutrition and obesity called for at international conference.

19/11/2014