News archive 2016

Responding to the mounting impacts of malnutrition on public health and economic development – estimated to cost $3.5 trillion per year – via a shift to healthier diets and food systems is the subject of a high level conference taking place at FAO's Rome headquarters.

King Letsie III of Lesotho was today appointed as FAO’s newest Special Ambassador for Nutrition by the Organization’s Director-General, José Graziano da Silva.

Agroforestry has a key role to play in helping the world adopt sustainable agriculture and contrast climate change, according to a high-level conference hosted by FAO today.

Mongolia and FAO will work more closely together to promote international partnerships and exchanges that support sustainable agriculture in the East Asian country, the UN agency said today.

To address the complex needs of pastoralists,FAO has produced "Improving governance of pastoral lands", a technical yet accessible guide on how to establish viable tenure arrangements for the often-marginalized people who use around a third of the earth’s surface.

This week in the Hungarian capital, FAO convenes decision makers, experts, civil society organizations and others for three days of discussions on the concept of “agroecology.”

Speaking at FAO, UN General Assembly President Peter Thomson has called for an energetic push in the next decade to implement the Paris Climate Treaty and advance the new global sustainable development agenda.

Consumer awareness of the nutritional and dietary benefits of pulses remains inadequate and more must be done to promote their role in food systems, FAO Deputy Director-General Maria Helena Semedo said today.

FAO is pleased to launch a new and revamped FAOSTAT web site, making the world’s most comprehensive statistical database on food, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, natural resources management and nutrition even more accessible for public use.

FAO and the Vatican havecalled for an intensified international push to stamp out human rights abuses in the world's fishing industry — including trafficking of people and forced labour — as well as an end to the scourge of illegal fishing.