A new joint report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the African Union Commission (AUC) highlights the enormous gap between current public and private financing of ag...

Publicly-oriented agricultural research and development (R&D) systems have been growing at an average annual rate of 1.8 percent in the past two decades, reaching $50.4 billion in 2023, while the number of agricultural researchers has grown even faster, according to new data presented today b...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF today warned that a deepening hunger crisis in South Sudan is pushing 7.8 million people into high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) between April and July 2026, according to 

The Director-General of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, 

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu launched the second phase of the FAO Villages Recognition Initiative at FAO headquarters, highlighting how the i...

Acute food insecurity and malnutrition levels remain alarmingly high and deeply entrenched, with crises increasingly concentrated in a core group of countries, according to the Global Report on Foo...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with the European Dairy Association, held a private-sector dialogue today in Brussels, gathering European Union-based companies, industry associations, financial institutions and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Wikimedia Sverige and Wikimedia UK to expand public access to reliable information on food, agriculture and related topics.

The agreement provides a framework for collaboration...

Ministers from around Asia and the Pacific gathered in here to negotiate collaboration pathways with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). They aim to harness the region’s increasingly prosperous and dynamic agricultural capacities to bolster food security for all, wh...

Extreme heat events currently threaten the livelihoods and health of over a billion people, causing half a trillion work hours to be lost annually, with the prospect for damage to livestock herds and crop yields set to soar higher in the future. Agricultural workers and agrifood systems are on th...

QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), welcomed ministers from around Asia and the Pacific to a special meeting here today to discuss the “distinct and persistent structural vulnerabilities” faced by countries in the region that are parti...

The 2026 conflict in the Middle East is adding further pressure on fragile agrifood systems and global supply chains, threatening the availability, accessibility, and affordability of food, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, to...

According to the latest update from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), released by the National Food Security Coordination (CNSA), 5.83 million people — or 52 percent ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) through its Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, highlighted scalable, investment‑ready nu...

In April 2023, violent conflict broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in the capital city, Khartoum, eventually ripping through the entire country. Three years on, Sudan is facing what is now verifiably the largest humanitarian crisis and the largest displace...

Africa’s burgeoning population of youth and women is one of the continent’s greatest assets, and must be empowered to drive positive change in regional agrifood systems, QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), said today in remarks at the ...