11 September 2008 - Agricultural output is expected to increase significantly in the Russian Federation and Ukraine this year, as higher food prices have led to an expansion in area planted in cereals.

9 September 2008 - FAO is helping Morocco deal with an outbreak of peste des petits ruminants (PPR) that threatens to kill millions of sheep and goats and could possibly spread to neighbouring countries. The outbreak has largely affected sheep, with 133 outbreaks in 29 provinces so far.

26 September 2008 – WHO and FAO are urging affected countries to ensure safe feeding of millions of infants following the ongoing melamine milk crisis in China. The two agencies also called on countries to be alert to the possible spread of melamine-contaminated dairy products.

Phnom Penh (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries/Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation) – MAFF and FAO announced today that they are launching an emergency project to help impoverished farmers boost agricultural production immediately. The project – funded from FAO’s Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) – is part of the Organization’s Initiative on Soaring Food Prices (ISFP) launched by the FAO Director-General in December 2007 aimed at boosting local food supply to soften the blow of soaring food prices.

22 September 2008 - Safeguards introduced to protect seabirds from longline fishing activities are reducing the number of accidental bird kills, and similar measures are being urged in other forms of industrial fishing.

17 September 2008 - Increased farm production is the key to solving the world food crisis which plunged another 75 million people into poverty last year.

Five years after the Second Congo War officially came to an end, peace remains precarious. Hundreds of thousands of people are still homeless, and undernutrition affects 70 percent of the population. Still, increasing numbers Congolese farmers are trying to get back to their fields. FAO is there to help.

18 September 2008 -- Rising prices have plunged an additional 75 million people below the hunger threshold, bringing the estimated number of undernourished people worldwide to 923 million in 2007.

15 September 2008 – A joint FAO-government project in Uganda has helped over 3 000 farmers combat a pestilent disease that threatened to wipe out production of cooking banana, a staple crop upon which 14 million Ugandans depend for food and income. Not only has the spread of banana bacterial wilt been contained, but participating farmers have doubled or tripled their production of the fruit.

11 August 2008 - A strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza previously not recorded in sub-Saharan Africa has been detected in Nigeria for the first time. Nigeria has recently reported two new bird flu outbreaks in the states of Katsina and Kano.