News archive 2017

Hungry families in South Sudan will be able to make ends meet thanks to vegetable-growing kits funded by a donation from Pope Francis.

Climate change poses an alarming threat to food systems and food security in the Pacific islands, warned leaders of nine small island developing states (SIDS), representatives of regional development bodies, New Zealand and Australia at a meeting chaired by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva today. The meeting took place ahead of the Pacific leaders' participation at the UN Climate Conference COP23 in Bonn, and culminated in the leaders signing a joint statement – a call for action that they will take to COP23.

FAO launched a new sourcebook for how to implement “climate-smart” approaches to agriculture at the Agriculture Action Day on the sidelines of the COP23 climate summit in Bonn.

Participants at the Vatican event on atomic disarmament included 11 Nobel Peace Laureates, some of whom are part of FAO's Nobel Peace Laureates Alliance

According to the findings of FAO's 2017 Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition report, there is a pressing need to tackle malnutrition alongside further promotion of the consumption of healthier foods while curbing the growth in consumption of unhealthy foods.

While food commodity prices have been broadly stable, the cost of importing food is set to rise in 2017 to $1.413 trillion, a 6 percent increase from the previous year and the second highest tally on record according to the FAO’s latest Food Outlook report published today.

The high-level meeting to be chaired by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva will take place ahead of the Pacific leaders' participation at the UN Climate Conference COP23 in Bonn. While in Rome, the Pacific leaders will also meet Pope Francis and the Italian President Sergio Mattarella.

In the lead-up to World Antibiotic Awareness Week, FAO, OIE and WHO are together calling for responsible use of antibiotics in humans and animals to reduce the emergence of antibiotic resistance.

Workers in the banana sector – the most exported fresh fruit in the world, both by volume and by economic value - can now count on a practical guide aimed at making their work conditions healthier and safer.

The current harvest season in South Sudan will not end the hunger crisis as conflict persists in most of the country and hyperinflation puts food out of reach for many, according to the updated Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) released today.