The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is organizing the first ever Global Conference on Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization (GAMC) from 27 to 29 September 2023. The Conference’s theme will...

Rome, 31 March 2023 – Plant health officers from all FAO regions and headquarters held a meeting to share the latest actions to protect plants globally. The meeting was opened by Jingyuan Xia, Director...

Rome – More than 70 colleagues from across FAO regions met virtually as the Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP) community to review the achievements of 2022, discuss the challenges ahead, and the core activities for 2023. The...

Rome. The 2023 annual meeting of the Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) was held in...

Agreement sets to increase opportunities and capacities for African smallholder farmers 4 November 2022, Rome 

Leveraging agricultural automation for transforming agrifood systems

On 2-4 November 2022, FAO will convene the Global Conference on Sustainable Plant Production with the theme “Innovation, Efficiency and Resilience” (GPC), which will take place as a hybrid virtual/physical meeting at FAO headquarters in Rome. The overall...

 On Thursday, 09 June 2022, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the European Agricultural Machinery Industry Association (CEMA) celebrated their long-standing collaboration through a

Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization (SAM) in Africa remains to be an urgent imperative and an indispensable pillar for attaining the Malabo Declaration: Zero Hunger Vision by 2025, Goal 2 of the Sustainable Development Goals - and Agenda 2063, the Prosperous...

Autonomous robots are transforming agriculture. As these technologies become increasingly cheaper and lighter and incorporate swarming technologies, they are now being deployed for a range of tasks including weeding, picking, crop scouting, pruning, thinning, harvesting, and more.  Agricultural robots can also...