They span the globe and embrace diverse terrains, from stone terraced c...

A delegation from the European Parliament’s Committee on Development travelled to Senegal to assess the European Union’s development portfolio in the country. The focus areas of the mission included vaccine development, EU support to the Great Green Wall (GGW),climate adaptation of coastal com...

Promoting agrifood systems that are more e...

The benchmark index of international food commodity prices rose in April for the first time in a year, amid increases in world quotations for sugar, meat and rice, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported today.

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"Uganda is Africa in miniature," said Susan Ngongi Namondo, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Uganda, at the wrap up of the Flexible Voluntary Contribution (FVC) Resource Partners' Field Trip, held in Uganda from 1 to 5 May. "All the development challenges that are faced in the rest of the A...

FAO Brussels Director Raschad Al-Khafaji briefed delegates from the Council Working Party on Humanitarian Aid and Food Aid (COHAFA) on the current global acute food insecurity situation. Invited by the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, his presentation shed a light on th...

The number of people experiencing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, with over a quarter of a billion facing acute hunger and people in seven countries on the brink of starvation, according to ...

Dear Manuel thank you for granting us this interview. Let us start with the latest “breakthrough” agreement reached by the UN on 5 March to protect marine biodiversity in international waters. What was FAO’s role in reaching this agreement and how will it impact our work in the coming ...

Emphasizing the need to work together to achieve the targets of the 2030 Agenda, Director-General QU Dongyu of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) thanked Members for the “strong solidarity” shown by all during the week-long 

“Rethinking allocation of public spending in order to repurpose food and agricultural policies is urgently needed,” said FAO Deputy Director of Agrifood Economics division, Marco Sanchez, during a virtual session on “Financing Food Security and Food Systems Transformation.”

The event, ho...

QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), asked Members to muster budgetary consensus to enable progress on the path towards achieving the Four Betters – Better Production, Better Nutrition, a Better Environment and a Better Life for all, le...

The COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and conflicts have created significant food security challenges worldwide in the past years. Currently, millions of people around the world need urgent support in over 45 countries.

But just providin...

How can historical insights improve foresight planning for agrifood systems transformation? That was the central question of an International Workshop, jointly organized by FAO and the Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies (BrIAS), with the title “Re-imagining...

Millets grow well in Bihar, a state in eastern India, but farmers stopped cultivating the crop and lost its seeds. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) funds a project that reintroduced millets and other crops through community seed banks and on-farm trials.