Rome – FAO Director-General QU Dongyu outlined today three key sets of transformative actions FAO is working on to help make agrifood systems more efficient, more inclusive, more resilient and more sustainable.

“Actions are needed now,” the Director-General stresse...

Rome – The Horn of Africa is prone to natural shocks and hazards. The region has faced three severe drought phenomena in the last 12 years. Now, after five consecutive below average rainfall seasons, the region was back to its normal pattern during the long rains this yea...

Rome - Investment and finance solutions play a critical role in transforming our agrifood systems, especially at a time when multiple shocks keep pushing more people into hunger and poverty.

This is an area where "the 

Rome/New York/Washington, D.C. - The number of people experiencing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, with over a quarter of a billion facing acute hunger and people in se...

Mogadishu - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have launched a flagship project to support Somalia's r...

Rome - The COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and conflicts have created significant food security challenges worldwide in the past years. Currently, millions of people around the world need urgent support in over 45 countries...

Washington, DC - More than ten years ago, the UN FAO first examined the status of women in agriculture worldwide, illuminating the gender gap in productivity and explaining the impacts—on women’s agricultural output, national productivity, and global food security—of closing this gap. To...

Ottawa, Canada - Globally, agrifood systems are a significant source of income for women, with 36 percent of working women around the world employed in agrifood systems. The new Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) report ‘The Status of Women in Agrifood Systems’ ...

Washington, DC - In a seminal report released last week, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has provided a comprehensive picture of the status of women working across agrifood systems. Released last week, the 

Rome- Tackling gender inequalities in agrifood systems and empowering women reduces hunger, boosts the economy, and reinforces resilience to shocks like climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, reveals a new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization o...

Join the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for the high-level global launch and regional presentations of the seminal report on the critical roles women play in global agrifood systems.  

The FAO Report on the Status ...

5 April 2023, Washington, DC – Following the historic - first of its kind in 50 years - United Nations Water Conference in New York, Li Lifeng Director of the Land and Water Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and his Deputy, Sasha KooOshima, arrived to Washington...