12 June 2008 - Farmers’ in Southern Lebanon are receiving the first batch of 200 cows and 1 600 goats to help them recover from losses of livestock during the war in July and August 2006.

11 June 2008 - The quality of statistical information from 17 countries in sub-Saharan Africa will be dramatically increased with grant funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, reported FAO today.

11 June 2008 - FAO and the Government of the United Arab Emirates have signed an agreement to establish a new Subregional Office for the Gulf Cooperation Council States and Yemen in Abu Dhabi.

The agricultural sector in China's Sichuan province has suffered enormous damage estimated at around $US6 billion as a result of last month’s devastating earthquake.

26 June 2008 -- Soaring food prices could reverse the significant growth in agricultural production recorded by some of the poorest countries in Europe and Central Asia over the past 10 years, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said today.

24 June 2008 – FAO today appealed to donor countries for US$1 million to support a project designed to help developing countries deny port access to boats involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

19 June 2008 - Food insecurity has been exacerbated in Africa by the current rapid rise in food prices together with challenges such as climate change, greater demand for food products in emerging economies, agricultural production used for biofuels, rapid population and urbanization as well as transboundary animal and plant diseases.

17 June 2008 - Countries attending an FAO meeting on the global fish trade have endorsed a set of technical guidelines aimed at promoting responsible international trade in fish and fishery products.

13 June 2008 – Trucks loaded with more than 500 tonnes of seed left the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott today for six regional capitals, marking the beginning of FAO-supported emergency measures in the country forming part of the Organization’s Initiative on Soaring Food Prices.

6 June 2008 – FAO's Summit on soaring food prices has concluded with the adoption by acclamation of a declaration calling on the international commmunity to increase assistance for developing countries, in particular the least developed countries and those that are most negatively affected by high food prices.