The Government of Flanders (Belgium) has just contributed EUR 3 million with the signing of a new agreement with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to bolster the...

Kent Nnadozie, Secretary of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) and Ewald Rametsteiner, Deputy Director of the FAO Forestry Division, briefed the Council of...

Strong evidence of links between crop production and the soil microbiome and impacts on climate, environment and human health There are few sectors within the bioeconomy that are more exciting than...

A new food security and nutrition analysis reveals that famine is unfolding in parts of Somalia, while staggering levels of suffering can be seen across the country. In response, the...

The European Union Delegation to Papua New Guinea paid a visit to EU-STREIT Programme's implementation sites in East Sepik and engaged directly with the farmers and beneficiaries.

Rome-The FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, met in Rome with the Permanent Representatives of the European Union and its 27 Member States to discuss global food security, opportunities, challenges and role...

Agrifood systems have been heavily affected by the shocks created by the COVID-19 pandemic and other challenges, exacerbating the divides between urban and rural areas. This has forced us to...

This month FAO Brussels interviewed Zitouni Ould-Dada, FAO Deputy-Director for Climate Change, Biodiversity and the Environment, to hear all about the newly endorsed FAO Strategy on Climate Change and talk about the...

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today underscored the critical contribution of science and innovation to the transformation of agrifood systems...

Do you want to be part of the transformation of our agrifood systems? Are you interested in food and how it shapes our lives and planet? Then read on! The World Food Forum (WFF) is...

The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets or SOCO is one of FAO’s most recently established flagship reports. Its first edition came out in 2004, when World Trade Organization (WTO) members...

7 July 2022 FAO Senior Economist George Rapsomanikis was invited to talk about the challenges of food sufficiency during a hearing organized by the European Economic and Social Committee. Presenting the main...

7 July 2022 – FAO Deputy Director of the Office for Climate Change and Biodiversity Zitouni Ould-Dada visited Brussels to present FAO’s newly adopted Strategy on Climate Change. At the...

06/07/2022 Rome/New York - The number of people affected by hunger globally rose to as many as 828 million in 2021, an increase of about 46 million since 2020 and 150 million since the outbreak of the COVID-19...

6 July 2022 – There was a dramatic worsening of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in 2021, with the number of people affected by hunger globally rising to 828 million,...

5 July 2022 – The Director of the FAO Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium, Raschad Al-Khafaji presented his credentials to Pernilla Sjölin, the Acting Head of Protocol...

5 July 2022 – The potential of digitalization to improve efficiencies in the agrifood sector, to reduce its environmental footprint and to prevent crisis through early warning systems– these were...

  Why is the agri-food sector so important in the fight against child labour, and what comparative advantage can FAO bring? Benjamin Davis: According to the latest ILO-UNICEF global estimates,...

FAO’s Strategic Framework 2022-2031, the recently adopted Strategy on Science, Technology and Innovation, sustainable agricultural production methods, reduced pesticide use, improved soil health and the potential for carbon sequestration -...

The global agrifood sector faces fundamental challenges over the coming decade, particularly the need to feed an ever-increasing population in a sustainable manner, the impacts of the climate crisis and...