The 2020 edition of the annual Global Report on Food Crises was released today by the Global Network against Food Crises. Among the key findings is the fact that in 2019 there were 135 million people across 55 countries and territories who were experiencing acute food insecurity. In other words, these people’s inability...

The Group of Friends of Food Security and Nutrition in New York, currently chaired by Italy, held today a virtual meeting, co-organized with Brazil, Canada and Egypt, to discuss the possible impacts of COVID-19 on food security, availability and supply. More than 270 participants attended, including many Permanent Representatives from...

Efforts to stop the ravenous swarms of desert locusts in East Africa have just gotten another boost, thanks to a 19 million USD contribution from the United States. After having initially pledged 9 million USD to support response efforts, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have increased their...

The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) role in monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) featured prominently during the proceedings of the 51st United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC), which was held at UN headquarters in New York. The highest decision-making body for international statistical standards met from 3 to 5 March,...

The Food and Agriculture Organization with the United Nations (FAO) leant its weight to the Haiti humanitarian response plan appeal at a briefing to Member States organized by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Over the past decade, the country has been hit by major natural disasters,...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is scaling up its support to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) announced Ms. Carla Mucavi, Director of the FAO Liaison Office with the United Nations in New York, at the event “AOSIS vision for 2020: advancing ambition, building bridges and...

The extraordinary beneficial properties of the argania tree and the potential of the argan production sector in achieving sustainable development were showcased in the “Argania, Ancestral Source of Sustainable Development” event, which was hosted in the United Nations headquarters by the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Morocco to the...

On 12 February 2020, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Qu Dongyu, visited the United Nations Headquarters in New York for a series of high-level meetings. Qu began his day by participating in a joint breakfast meeting with Mark Lowcock, the United...

On 12 February 2020, the Food and Agriculture Organization with the United Nations (FAO) Liaison Office in New York celebrated World Pulses Day 2020 with a luncheon hosted by the United Nations Foundation at the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice. The event was co-organized by the Permanent Missions of...

On 12 February 2020, Food Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Director General Qu Dongyu addressed the Group of Friends of Food Security and Nutrition in a meeting held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. This was the first time the FAO Director-General attended a meeting of the...

On 12 February 2020, President of the 74rth Session of the General Assembly Tijjani Muhammad-Bande held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York an interactive dialogue focused on exploring ways to combat increasing hunger around the world, specifically by making the most of the opportunities brought about by the...

On 10 February 2020, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) co-hosted a briefing for the United Nations Members States and media on the topic of the desert locust upsurge that is taking place in...

The 74th United Nations General Assembly has designated 21 May as International Tea Day. The observance serves as an acknowledgement of the herb’s contribution to human health, socialization, rural development, and sustainable livelihoods. The United Nations acknowledge the importance of tea as a major cash crop for millions...

The United Nations General Assembly concluded its 74th session today by adopting a series of resolutions relevant to the mandate of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Seven of these resolutions were directly supported by FAO. The biannual Sustainable Mountain Development resolution fosters the...

The 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly has declared 2021 as the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables. The initiative aims at raising awareness on the nutritional and health benefits of fruit and vegetable consumption. The United Nations (UN) acknowledge the inextricable links that exist between agriculture...

The 74th United Nations General Assembly has designated 29 September as the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, recognizing the fundamental role that sustainable food production plays in promoting food security and nutrition.  The observance aims at raising awareness on the importance of the food loss and...

On 11 December the United Nations (UN) celebrated the International Mountain Day at the UN Headquarters in New York. The event was co-organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Permanent Missions of the Kyrgyz Republic, Andorra, Austria, Bhutan, Canada, Greece, Italy, Nepal and...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) participated in the annual CERF high-level pledging event ‘A Fund for All, by All’. The event was hosted by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the United Nations New York Headquarters, as an opportunity to highlight...

FAO participated today in the Comprehensive High-level Midterm review on the implementation of the Vienna Programme of Action for Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) for the Decade 2014–2024. The plenary took place in the United Nations Headquarters in New York.During the interactive panel on promoting trade, trade facilitation, and structural economic...

The Permanent Missions of Thailand, Ecuador Nigeria, and the Russian Federation co-hosted with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) the World Soil Day 2019 celebration at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. This year’s theme, “Stop...