Articles Tagged with ''FAO''

Almost 100 agricultural groups and companies from across the sector are urging the Trump administration to back a U.S. candidate to lead the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

The Senate will start moving its fiscal 2026 spending bills, including the Agriculture bill that funds USDA and FDA. The ag bill won’t attempt to move Food for Peace to USDA, as originally proposed in the House. But you can expect report language calling for an evaluation to determine the best home for the program once housed at USAID. 

Seventy-seven Nobel laureates in medicine, economics, physics and chemistry are urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. 

Lee Zeldin, who served as a congressman from Long Island for eight years before leaving to run a tight but unsuccessful race for governor of New York in 2022, is likely to be the next administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

The “genetic revolution” in agriculture powered by gene editing can help preserve access to traditional foods in the future, protecting them from environmental threats, says Qu Dongyu, director-general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

In this opinion piece, Alex Mathews, president and CEO of the Animal Health Institute, argues that progress is being made in preventing antibiotic resistance in the animal health sector.

About one in eleven people globally faced hunger last year, demonstrating the world is falling short of its Zero Hunger by 2030 ambitions, according to a recent report by United Nations agencies.

In this opinion piece, Tony P. Hall, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, and Kip E. Tom, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture highlight the importance of passing the American Farmers Feed the World Act.