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FAO’s EOSTAT Initiative recognized with ICT Excellence Award in Harare, Zimbabwe

03/12/2025

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has...

FAO–LICOP workshop highlights role of living income in strengthening smallholder resilience

02/12/2025

A multistakeholder workshop on living income for smallholder farmers convened at FAO headquarters on October 24 brought together representa...

FAO unveils new breakthrough in resilience monitoring in the West Bank

01/12/2025

AO has successfully completed the first-ever integration of the Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis (RIMA) framework into the <...

Agrifood policy highlights | September–October 2025

20/11/2025

During September–October 2025, the Food and Agriculture Policy Decision Analysis (FAPDA) database tracked 1 632 policy actions across 166 countries, territories and regional economic communities, highlighting water-related innovation, digital technologies, natural resource management and evolving trade and consumer protection measures.

The State of Food and Agriculture 2025: Land degradation is reducing crop yields for 1.7 billion people

13/11/2025

Land degradation driven by human activity is undermining agricultural productivity, rural livelihoods, and food security, according to The State of Food and Agriculture 2025, released on 3 November 2025. T...

FAO report: 1.7 billion people experience lower crop yields due to land degradation

03/11/2025

Rome – Approximately 1.7 billion people live in areas where crop yields are falling because of human-induced land degradation - a pervasive and silent crisis that is undermining agricultural productivity and threatening ecosystem health worldwide. The alarming figure comes from the latest

Agrifood policy highlights | July–August 2025

25/09/2025

During July–August 2025, the Food and Agriculture Policy Decision Analysis (FAPDA) database-recorded 1 109 new policy actions across 207 countries, territories and regional economic communities, highlighting responses to livestock disease outbreaks, tariff shocks, food price volatility and evolving producer, consumer and trade policy measures.

Regional workshops advances resilience reporting in Africa under Malabo Declaration

15/08/2025

A series of regional workshop brought together a total of 38 experts across African countries in late 2024 and su...

Hunger declines globally, but rises in Africa and western Asia: UN report

28/07/2025

An estimated 8.2 percent of the global population, or about 673 million people, experienced hunger in 2024, down from 8.5 percent in 2023 and 8.7 percent in 2022. However, progress was not consistent across the globe, as hunger continued to rise in most subregions of Africa and western Asia, acco...

Strengthening resilience capacity in Latin America: FAO kicks off joint training

06/07/2025

The RIMA training for FAO Colombia and FAO Venezuela officially launched in July, marki...

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