The FAO International Symposium on Agricultural Innovation for Family Farmers: Unlocking the potential of agricultural innovation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals is a direct and firm response to FAO member countries’ enthusiastic encouragement for the Organization to play a strong catalytic and supporting role to empower and family farmers...

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for all stakeholders to work together to ensure food security and nutrition for all.  Using a multi-stakeholder, inclusive approach, CFS develops and endorses policy recommendations and guidance on a wide range of food security and...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has established a multilateral collaboration with the Government of the People’s Republic of China and five other countries in Southeast Asia to control the spread of trans-boundary animal diseases (TADs).  The FAO-China South-South Cooperation (SSC) Regional Project on Transboundary Animal...

In 2014, the 1st International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition provided an opportunity to share experiences and build the evidence base on agroecology, as well as reaching a consensus on the priorities for achieving more sustainable food systems through agroecology. It also endorsed FAO’s role in supporting...

The Steering Committee of CSOs launched a call for expression of the interest (EOI) for Orgnisation of CSO Consultation for the 30th Regional Conference for Africa (ARC) of FAO The next African Civil Society Consultation at the 30th FAO Regional Conference will be held from 22 to 23 January 2018 in...