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Mar 2025
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FAO Brief - 31 March 2025

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In this episode, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu calls for the protection of forest and biodiversity for food security and nutrition on the International Day of Forests; FAO urges strengthened measures to contain the spread of the H5N1 avian influenza that kills millions of poultry worldwide with an increased spillover into mammals; and a new FAO study notes that a nearly 40 percent surge in coffee prices last year was caused by adverse climatic conditions. 

 

Producer: Heriberto Araujo, Ruki Inoshita, Flora Trouilloud
Presenter: Ruki Inoshita
Sound: Eric Deleu
Editorial supervision: Ho Tszmei

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