23 September 2021, Rome/Washington - The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the largest single-year increase in global hunger in decades, emphasizing the need to shift towards more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems, QU Dongyu, Director-Genera...

23 September 2021, New York - The Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate...

10 September 2021, Washington, D.C. - Planet Forward and FAO North America co-hosted an engaging virtual discus...

In the first ever Planet Forward-FAO Storytelling Summer Fellowship, four students will produced stories in any medium at the nexus of food security, agriculture, and nutrition, and work under the guidance of GW’s National Geographic Professor of Science Communication, Lisa Palmer.

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I hope you had a great summer and are doing well as we head into the busy fall season.

First and foremost, the moment we have been waiting for with the United Nations (UN) Food Systems Summit is here! We are at a key juncture of determin...

28 August 2021, Kabul/Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has appealed for humanitarian assistance to be scaled up as Afghanistan continues to be hit hard by an ever-worsening drought that threatens the livelihoods of more than 7 million people who rel...

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“We only have nine harvests left before 2030,” was the urgent call for action from the FAO Director-General QU Dongyu during the Pre-Summit of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit. The proceeding was a strong indication of the scope of the Summit, which will tak...

29 July 2021 - An Indigenous Peoples delegation of nine representatives was present in person for the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit that was held in Rome from 26-28 July 2021. The pre-summit brought together youth, farmers, civil society, researchers, private sector, country delegations, and poli...

13 July 2021 - FAO North America and CSIS Global Food Security Program held a private roundtable webinar featuring keynote speaker Dr. David Hughes, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Global Food Security at Penn State University and PlantVillage founder. Dr. Hughes presented his wo...

13 July 2021, Rome  - Upcoming seasonal rains in hunger-stricken northern Ethiopia offer a tight window of opportunity for farmers to get a crop in the ground and reboot local food production - but without funding and better access by aid agencies, that opportunity could...

12 July 2021, Rome - There was a dramatic worsening of world hunger in 2020, the United Nations said today - much of it likely related to the fallout of COVID-19. While the pandemic's impact has yet to be fully mapped*, a multi-agency report estimates that around a tenth of t...

We are excited to introduce you to Jocelyn Brown Hall, the new Director of the FAO Liaison Office for North America. A U.S. citizen, Brown Hall joins FAO North America from her previous position as the FAO Representative for Ghana and the Deputy Regional Representative of FAO’s Regional Office...

5 July 2021, Rome/Paris - With less than 10 years until the 2030 deadline for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), governments need to step up their efforts to meet global food security and environmental targets, according to a new report released today by t...