Organisation: UN Food and Agricultural Organisation

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business

Irish seafood industry to achieve €1bn sales by 2020

A new €241m development programme for the seafood sector for the period up to 2020 will be rolled out from the beginning of this year.

Wriggle out of this, earthworms just about cut the mustard

farming

Fishing hopes to cast a wider net

business

European group seeks to put family farm back in spotlight

world

Long-term food shortages must be addressed: Experts

business

Bird flu 'could shut down world travel'

Darfur now threatened with locust plague

An invasion of locusts that has destroyed millions of acres of crops in North Africa is heading toward Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region, a UN agency warned today.

Fri, 30 Jul, 2004

Two more die from bird flu

The human toll in Asia’s bird flu crisis rose today to 18 with two more deaths in Vietnam, and a UN official said pigs tested positive for the virus that has infected tens of millions of poultry across the region.

Fri, 06 Feb, 2004

Pigs infected with bird flu

Pigs in Vietnam have tested positive for the bird flu virus that has infected millions of poultry across Asia and killed 18 people, the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation said in Hanoi.

Fri, 06 Feb, 2004