Africa’s push to accelerate sustainable agricultural mechanization gained fresh momentum today as the Prime Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania, Mwigulu L. Nchemba, launched Tanzania’s National Agricultural Mechanization Strategy 2026–2036 at the opening of the 

Wetlands are fundamental to global food security and nutrition. They support inland and coastal fisheries and aquaculture, and supply water for crops and livestock production. They also underpin the production of staple foods, particularly in human-made wetlands, such as rice paddies and ponds...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are implementing a $100 million initiative to bolster food and nutrition security and restore agricultural livelihoods for more than one million vulnerable people across Afghanistan.

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A high-level Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) mission to Haiti and the Dominican Republic this week underscored a central reality for the Caribbean: food security is a shared regional challenge, requiring both life-saving, emergency agricultural action to respond t...

Inside the Hagadera Refugee Camp located in Dadaab, eastern Kenya sits Mariam’s kitchen garden. This camp of semi-permanent corrugated metal houses and canvas tents has been her home for the last 19 years. She came here at 34 years old due to political unrest in her home country of Somalia, an...

Agriculture ministers from more than 60 countries meeting at the 2026 Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) agreed that addressing water scarcity and competing uses requires placing agriculture at the core of water policy and governance. In the 

The world simultaneously grapples with the need to produce more food and the need to curb greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector. There are many different technological, or policy options under development and deployment aimed to address these challenges.  One of these options...

Acute food insecurity has tripled since 2016 to nearly 300 million people, while humanitarian food sector funding has fallen back toward 2016 levels. Every dollar now has to achieve far more.   

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has welcomed the entry into force of the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Norway have launched a new project to support rural communities in frontline areas of Ukraine. The initiative will be implemented in Chernihivska, Dnipropetrovska and Mykolaivska oblasts, where rural household...

Sopo, a 31-year-old from Tsalka, is taking her first steps towards building a small cheese business with her mother.

“I’m planning to start a small cheese-making business,” she says. “Step by step, my mother and I are laying the foundations for a family-run business focused on quality. S...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Government of Zimbabwe funded by the French Government, coordinated the Agricultural Voucher System as part of the Nourish and Thrive: Inclusive and Sustainable Nutrition and Livelihoods Init...

The FAO Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium looks back to 2025: a year of engagement, partnership, and impact.

This end-of-year video highlights key moments from 2025, as FAO marked its 80th anniversary and reinforced its commitment to transforming agrifood systems and end...

More than 72,000 farming and herding families in the West Bank – nearly two-thirds of all agricultural families – urgently require emergency agricultural assistance, according to a...

After a sharp decline in 2023, the global forest products sector saw signs of stabilization in 2024, according to Global forest products facts and figures 2024 , released today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Natio...