Spain, strategic partner for FAO, advocates for transforming food systems, by promoting digitalization and the participation of the most vulnerable groups.

Experts will share common goals to leverage efforts towards the achievement of the 2030 Agenda.

New joint report proposes ten measures to prevent the current health crisis from becoming a food crisis.

With the support of Finland, a national-scale forest inventory will be implemented in Myanmar, including in areas with security and conflict issues.

Child labour makes children particularly vulnerable in realizing their right to food. Governments should ensure that every child has access to adequate food at all times.

COVID-19's impacts are limiting people's ability to access food,  increasingly restricting the cash liquidity of farmers, and handicapping farmers' ability to produce and market food -which in the longer term could seriously degrade their livelihoods.

This tool, which houses data from more than 2030 countries and territories, is designed to help decision makers understand their food systems, identify their levers of change, and decide which ones to pull.

Carla Mucavi, Director of FAO Liaison Office in New York, highlights the importance of the right to adequate food, with regard to FAO priorities like SIDS, innovation or Hand-in-Hand initiative.

Opinion article by Juan Carlos García y Cebolla, Right to Food Team Leader, published in El Pais (in Spanish)

COVID-19 is creating significant food security and nutrition challenges that cities worldwide need to respond to and that go beyond the health emergency. FAO recently set up a survey targeting municipalities worldwide and that received responses from over 800 cities in 76 countries.