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DUSHANBE (TCA) — During a three-day workshop that began on July 1 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan becomes the first country in the Europe and Central Asia region to conduct pilot tests of a tool called the Progressive Management Pathway for antimicrobial resistance. The tool has been developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to assist countries in tackling antimicrobial resistance. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — Every two years, countries of Europe and Central Asia – a vast and diverse region of more than 50 countries – come together to set the agenda for issues related to food and agriculture. With the approval of José Graziano da Silva, FAO Director-General, it has become official that the next Regional Conference for Europe (ERC) will be hosted by Uzbekistan in early 2020, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said on June 24. Continue reading
KABUL (TCA) — Almost half of all rural Afghans now face some level of food insecurity, a UN agency said on June 3, as an historic drought and deteriorating security grip the country, Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews reported. Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov says that his country has become a wheat-exporting nation, according to state media, amid reports that the local population is facing severe food shortages, RFE/RL's Turkmen Service reported. Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan on March 14 inaugurated and officially opened Hil Standart’s Microbiology Laboratory, the first private sector food safety laboratory in Turkmenistan, the US Embassy in Ashgabat said in a press release. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Belarus has suggested implementing a joint project to set up a milk-processing enterprise in Kyrgyzstan, Belarusian BelTA news agency reported with reference to Aleksei Bogdanov, head of the Central Office for Foreign Economic Activities of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry, after the eighth session of the Belarus-Kyrgyzstan intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation held in Bishkek on October 19. Continue reading
