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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today warned that Madagascar is at risk of a crop-eating locust plague, potentially jeopardizing the livelihoods of 460,000 rural families.

Courtesy of Robert Eymael Vineyards in the town of Uerzig climb the steep banks of the Mosel River in southwest Germany, where construction of a massive bridge and highway will soon resume. Although opinion is divided, many winemakers in the area, known as Germany's Napa Valley, are adamantly opposed to the project.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today unveiled a new online portal to help countries monitor fires and protect property with data from satellites operated by the United States space agency NASA.

Chinese authorities have been asked by Greenpeace China to work harder to clean up a group of islands which have been polluted by spilt oil.

The floods in northwest Pakistan could be a foretaste of things to come if you go by a recent report warning that in the next two decades factors like climate change could make water-related humanitarian crises a new source of concern.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has cut its global wheat production forecast for 2010 due to the impact of poor weather on crops in recent weeks, but allayed fears of a new food crisis, noting that current stocks should be adequate.

Parts of sparsely populated and arid eastern Niger, north of the city of Diffa, are strewn with putrid dead cows: Pastoralists travelled great distances to find food and water for their animals but in the end had to watch their most prized assets die.

The perennially cash-strapped Philippines government is struggling with massive loans tied to climate change mitigation efforts after storms struck the country late last year, officials said.

The United Arab Emirates is planning to create another 23 organic farms by June 2011, raising their number in the country to 40.

At least six million fish have died in three rivers of Bolivia due to the intense cold wave sweeping through the country in the past few weeks.