During July–September 2026, the Food and Agriculture Policy Decision Analysis (FAPDA) database recorded 1 476 policy decisions across 168 countries, territories and regional economic communities, highlighting social protection schemes to advance Zero Hunger in Africa and evolving policy responses to El Niño.

During July–August 2026, the Food and Agriculture Policy Decision Analysis (FAPDA) database recorded 639 policy decisions across 121 countries, territories and regional economic communities, highlighting policy responses to El Niño and efforts to strengthen agrifood system resilience, food security and climate preparedness.

Through participation in Outlook Agro Brasil 2026, São Paulo Climate Week and technical exchanges with EMBRAPA and academic partners, ESA helped advance collaboration on healthy diet affordability, true cost accounting and sustainable agrifood systems transformation.

To help ensure that smallholder producers – the backbone of agrifood systems – earn enough to live with dignity, more than 60 experts from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and private sector partners came together virtually on 17 June 2026 to discuss how agrifo...

During May 2026, the Food and Agriculture Policy Decision Analysis (FAPDA) database recorded 586 policy actions across 141 countries, territories and regional economic communities, highlighting responses to the Middle East conflict and efforts to strengthen women’s participation in agrifood trade.

To strengthen the use of Earth observation (EO) and geospatial data to better understand the impacts of agriculture and climate initiatives, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hosted the

During April 2026, approximately 37 percent of the Food and Agriculture Policy Decision Analysis (FAPDA) database-recorded policy actions were linked to responses to the Middle East conflict, highlighting emergency measures to address fertilizer supply disruptions and strengthen the long-term resilience of agrifood systems.  

To advance the use of evidence in anticipatory action (AA) in agrifood systems, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) convened a two-day workshop, “Leveraging evidence for effective anticipator...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through its Agrifood Economics and Policy Division as technical lead, in collaboration with key regional and international partners, launched a three-day regional training on the Use of Earth Observation for crop monitoring and...