Updated regularly, this is FAO's website on the ways the pandemic is affecting food and agriculture systems around the world.

The Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee) of the 75th UN General Assembly convened to discuss the Secretary-General’s report on Agriculture development, food security and nutrition. Following the introduction of the report, the Director...

Food is essential for life. This simple statement has seldom resonated with so many as on this World Food Day 2020, when hundreds are dealing with the widespread effects of COVID-19.World Food Day 2020 also...

FAO introduced the UN Secretary-General’s report on the eradication of rural poverty to the Member States of the Second Committee, on the occasion of the 75th UN General Assembly Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee)....

Rome-based UN agencies' governing bodies focus on joint programmes, COVID-19 response and UN Food Systems Summit 2021