Jacques Diouf FAO director-general
Food production will have to increase by 70% over the next 40 years to feed the world's growing population, the United Nations food agency predicts. Jacques Diouf answers our questions.
A review of 50 years of scientific studies rocks the organic world as it concludes that organic produce is no better of one’s health than conventionally produced foods.
A report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has provoked a stormy debate between the supporters of organic food and its critics. Is organic food really that much better for us?
A genetically modified maize stain created by biotech giant Monsanto, currently banned in many European countries, was deemed as safe to humans and animals after a study by Europe's official food safety agency.
EU agriculture ministers have agreed on a set of new rules regarding "novel foods", including cloned animal products, that critics say could pave the way for the sale of so-called "Frankenfoods".
Jacques Diouf, the director-general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), calls on the international community to take action to prevent a global food crisis.
Farm ministers from the world's leading industrialised and developing nations are gathered in northeast Italy for talks on food security and ways to overcome a global food crisis that could worsen in the current economic downturn.
Since the dioxin-contaminated chicken scandal of the '90s, European authorities have taken strict control of animal feed regulation. But breeders argue too much regulation harms innovation. Europe may have to listen to them.
China adopted a long-awaited food safety law, according to state media on Saturday. The policy measure follows public outcry over a contaminated milk incident that killed at least six children and made nearly 300,000 others sick.
The controversial genetically-modified corn produced by Monsanto is 'safe' for human consumption, France's food watchdog says. The growing of Monsanto corn was temporarily last year over heath concerns.
