A report by the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) states that Afghanistan was nearing self-sufficiency in grain production.

In popular culture, the mass production of food, specifically meats such as chicken and beef, has come under fire from various documentaries, most recently Food, Inc, documenting the mass slaughter and poor treatment of animals, often for easier revenues from large corporations.

FAO has carried out projects in over 25 countries and inter-agency missions in nearly 60, scaled up its monitoring through the Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture, provided policy advice to governments while supporting their efforts to increase food production, and advocated for more investment in agriculture.

This campaign is linked to the recognition of the detrimental environmental effects of meat production, which the United Nations ' Food and Agriculture Organization has established to represent nearly one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Food production in 1946 – 48 was only two-thirds of the prewar level, while grain and meat shipments – which usually supplied 25 % of the food – no longer arrived from the East.

Chiquita Brands International and Dole Food Company now account for most Honduran banana production and exports.

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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates the following production of unprocessed tobacco by country in 2009 ( figures are in thousands of tonnes.

Food production was only two-thirds of the prewar level in 1946-48, while normal grain and meat shipments no longer arrived from the East.

After World War II, Newforge Foods, part of the Fitch Lovell group, were awarded the license to produce the product in the UK ( doing so at its Gateacre factory, Liverpool ), where it stayed until production switched to the Danish Crown Group ( owners of the Tulip Food Company ) in 1998, forcing the closure of the Liverpool factory and the loss of 140 jobs.

Food and cash crop production employs the majority of the labor force and contributes about 42 % to the gross domestic product ( GDP ).

Rearing a relatively small number of grazing animals can be beneficial, as the Food Climate Research Network at Surrey University reports: " A little bit of livestock production is probably a good thing for the environment.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, Madagascar is currently responsible for the vast majority of the world's Bourbon vanilla production and 58 % of the world total vanilla fruit production.

He suggests that WFP answers too easily to the calls of the corrupted governments, and supplies too much of food aid leading to reduction of the production of local farmers as " no one can compete with the UN's World Food Program ".

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, total world capture fisheries production in 2000 was 86 million tons ( FAO 2002 ).

Food was in desperate shortage, and production fell dramatically.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates the following production of unprocessed tobacco by country / region in 2000.

Food production had increased fourfold and sugar cane production had increased 15-fold between 1895 to 1925 and Taiwan became a major foodbasket serving Japan's industrial economy.

** Food technology – branch of food science which deals with the actual production processes to make foods.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ) reports that world production of cabbage and other brassicas ( these plants are combined by the FAO for reporting purposes ) for calendar year 2010 was.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO ) reports that world production of cabbage and other brassicas ( these plants being combined by the FAO for reporting purposes ) for calendar year 2010 was.

In February 1994, rBST was approved by the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) for use in the U. S. It has become common in the U. S., but not elsewhere, to inject it into milch kine dairy cows to increase their production by up to 15 %.

As such, it has to be distinguished from agricultural land, which, according to Food and Agriculture Organization's ( FAO ) definition, additionally includes land under permanent crops as well as permanent pastures.

Since conference and of the Food and Agriculture Organization's publication World Festival of Trees, and a resolution of the United Nations in 1954: " The Conference, recognising the need of arousing mass consciousness of the aesthetic, physical and economic value of trees, recommends a World Festival of Trees to be celebrated annually in each member country on a date suited to local conditions "; it has been adopted by the Netherlands.

Amisulpride has not been approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States.

According to United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization the term bean should include only species of Phaseolus ; however, a strict consensus definition has proven difficult because in the past, several species such as Vigna ( angularis ( azuki bean ), mungo ( black gram ), radiata ( mung bean ), aconitifolia ( moth bean )) were classified as Phaseolus and later reclassified.

In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has categorized benzodiazepines into either category D or X meaning potential for harm in the unborn has been demonstrated.

Food has become a part of material culture, and cuisine is much more than a substance.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, China's per capita food availability and consumption have increased, and average per capita food availability has grown from less than 1700 kcal in 1960 to 2570 kcal per day in 1995.

The Slow Food Movement has created a Cheddar Presidium, claiming that only three cheeses should be called " Cheddar ".

Two federal agencies, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Food and Drug Administration, determine which substances are added to or removed from the various schedules, though the statute passed by Congress created the initial listing, and Congress has sometimes scheduled other substances through legislation such as the Hillory J. Farias and Samantha Reid Date-Rape Prevention Act of 2000, which placed gamma hydroxybutyrate in Schedule I.

A 2005 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) estimates that although the Earth's total forest area continues to decrease at about 13 million hectares per year, the global rate of deforestation has recently been slowing.

However, in 2008 the Food Festival was cancelled due to numerous complaints of disruption to residents and some businesses in the immediate proximity ; it has been replaced by a series of smaller events, spread out over the year.

Food poisoning has been recognized as a disease since as early as Hippocrates.

Food preserved by canning or bottling is at immediate risk of spoilage once the can or bottle has been opened.

Some countries may denote specific representatives to the FAO, for instance the United States Ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, who has ambassador rank and is also part of the United States Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome.

The Slow Food movement has sought in some countries to add an edible school yard and garden classrooms to schools, e. g. in Fergus, Ontario, where these were added to a public school to augment the kitchen classroom.

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center – best known as simply " The Center " – has occupied the former Food & Maritime Trades High School at 208 West 13th Street since 1984.

Foods of this kind present a problem because the hidden gluten constitutes a hazard for people with celiac disease: In the United States, at least, gluten might not be listed on the labels of such foods because the U. S. Food and Drug Administration has classified gluten as GRAS ( generally recognized as safe ).

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ), with support from the TSE ( Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy ) Advisory Committee, has since 1997 been monitoring the potential risk of transmitting animal diseases, especially bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ), commonly known as Mad Cow disease.

The implementation of the UN's Oil for Food program in December 1996 has helped improve economic conditions.

The United States Food and Drug Administration has warned consumers that any sexual enhancement product that claims to work as well as prescription products is likely to contain such a contaminant.