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‘Growing alarm’ over Fall Armyworm advance, with cash crops ‘under attack’ across Asia
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has convened a three-day meeting of international experts in Bangkok and officials from affected countries, who on Wednesday began discussing what to do about stopping the onward march of the crop-guzzling insects, and limiting the devastation they cause.
"We are here today – together – because we share a growing sense of alarm – but also to learn from each other, particularly from those countries who’ve already been responding to their own infestations, said Kundhavi Kadiresan, Assistant Director-General and FAO Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific.
We need to work together because this is a pest that has no respect for international boundaries - FAO's Kundhavi Kadiresan
“We need to work together because this is a pest that has no respect for international boundaries, threatens our food security, our economies, domestic and international trade, and of course the smallholder farmer who wakes up one morning to a cash crop under attack.”
Fall Armyworm is ‘here to stay’
Fall armyworm (FAW for short) have been moving steadily east since and caused up to $3 bil
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CGIAR has joined the global community in congratulating the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on being awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee’s recognition of WFP’s role in support of peace through food and nutrition security brings welcome attention to the agency’s outstanding work, as well as the collective and ongoing challenge of ending world hunger.
“The World Food Programme contributes enormously toward the global goal of ending hunger by , and is well-deserving of the recognition it has received as a force for world peace,” said Elwyn Grainger-Jones, Managing Director, Institutional Strategy and Systems, CGIAR System Organization.
“As a long-standing partner, CGIAR congratulates the World Food Programme on its achievement, and is committed to continue working together in the future toward our common aims.”
The United Nations agency was recognized by the award committee for “its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict”.
Norwegian Nobel Committee Chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen said that the awarding of the Peace Prize to WFP intended to “turn the eyes of the world to t