{"id":414106,"date":"2020-06-14T08:10:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T08:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2020\/06\/1066182"},"modified":"2020-06-14T08:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T08:10:06","slug":"fact-checking-becoming-as-important-as-handwashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/06\/14\/fact-checking-becoming-as-important-as-handwashing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-checking becoming \u2018as important as handwashing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst COVID-19 has posed a serious threat to food security overall, the Food and Agriculture Organization (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/home\/feed\/view\/en\/\" title=\"United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization\" class=\"word-link\" >FAO<\/a>) believes agricultural commodity markets are proving to be more resilient to the pandemic, than many other sectors.<\/p>\n<p>But the real test in terms of food security will come now, \u201cwith lockdowns ending, and people having to go back to their jobs to support themselves\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to Sridhar Dharmapuri, a Senior FAO Food Safety and Nutrition Officer from the Asia Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>While stressing the importance of maintaining good food safety practices at home, Mr. Dharmapuri told UN News\u2019s Li Zhang, that cutting through the tide of misinformation was also key to battling the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2020\/06\/1066182\">UN News<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst COVID-19 has posed a serious threat to food security overall, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) believes agricultural commodity markets are proving to be more resilient to the pandemic, than many other sectors.<br \/>\nBut the real test in ter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414107,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414106\/revisions\/414107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}