How FAO's state-of-the-art data platform is speeding up emergency relief operations in Afghanistan and beyond.

FAO Director-General emphasizes importance of tackling root causes by increasing agricultural support in emergencies.

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu addresses the Informal North America Regional Conference in Ottawa.

Five of the many issues FAO is tackling through the one Health approach.

Interview with Alexander Jones, Director of the FAO’s Resource Mobilization Division, on his recent field visit to Afghanistan to see how FAO is helping farmers to get back on their feet.

Since 2021, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has been carrying out a long-term initiative in three provinces of Afghanistan (Khost, Laghman, and Nuristan) with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Almost half of Afghanistan’s land surface is cons...

Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol urges game-changing solutions to break the vicious loop between climate crisis, conflict and hunger.

Interview with FAO Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol on Gaza and other global emergencies including Ukraine and Sudan.

An introduction to the heroes of deserts and highlights.

Wire weaving leads one Afghan woman to improve her family's economic situation.

Acute hunger is set to soar as emergency agriculture support remains massively underfunded

More than 70 years later, Josue de Castro's view of a world without hunger still holds strong.

In Afghanistan’s landscape, rangeland plays a central role. Almost 47 percent of the country's land area is covered by rangeland. It is a vital source of food for livestock, providing...

Prioritized actions in 34 countries across Eastern and Southern Africa, Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Natural resources, particularly rangeland, dominate the landscape of Afghanistan. According to the Land Cover Atlas of Afghanistan, approximately 46.97 percent (30.2 million hectares) of the country's land area is covered...

Burkina Faso, Haiti, Mali and the Sudan have been elevated to the highest alert level to join Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.

FAO and Japan launch a four–year project in Kunar that aims to increase the amount of irrigated land and boost local food production.

Afghanistan has approximately 1.78 million hectares of forest and shrubs accounting for about 2.8 percent of the total land area. However, there was a rapid decline in forest and shrubs...

Khust province is in Southeastern Afghanistan and it is almost entirely covered by mountains and forests. The population is largely rural and grows cereals and vegetables such as wheat, barley,...

From space travel to COVID-19, the food hygiene code has stood the test of time.