FAO’s Chief Economist Maximo Torero participated virtually in a public hearing of the European Parliament’s Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) on the rise of consumer prices in the internal market.

During his intervention on understanding the drivers and causes b...

15/07/2025
Rome/Paris – Production and calorie intake of animal-source products are expected to increase as incomes rise in middle-income countries, but further increases in food production through improvements in agricultural productivity will be necessary to reduce under-nourishment and agri...

14/07/2025
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As the world’s second-largest cocoa producer, Ghana plays a crucial role in the global cocoa industry. However, the sector faces complex, interconnected chall...

09/07/2025
Rome – Boosting investments in agrifood systems is a powerful lever to improve lives and can address the “alarming gap” of employment opportunities facing the 1.2 billion young people expected to enter the job market in the next decade, QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Ag...

An integrated mountain agropastoral system in Tajikistan has become the first Central Asian addition to the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, with a pine tree agroforestry system and traditional bamboo...

At the opening of the AI for Good Summit (8-11 July)  in Geneva today, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) officially launched the 

With 1.3 billion individuals aged 15 to 24 globally, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has released a comprehensive report titled “The Status of Youth in Agrifood Systems,” which examines and em...

The FAO Director-General, Q...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today launched the Financing for Shock-Driven Food Crisis (FSFC) Facility, a mechanism that builds on the existing initiative...

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, QU Dongyu, today emphasized the urgent need for collaboration in addressing the interconnected and pressing challenges facing African nations, in his opening remarks at the 6th African Union (AU)-European Unio...

During the 2023–2024 biennium, the Office of Evaluation completed 108 evaluations of FAO programmes and projects undertaken around the world – from smallholder agricultural support in Angola and Gambia to One Health Programme Priority Area (PPA).

The evaluations cover approxima...

Ten years ago, fears for the sustainability of tuna made headlines in the news.  Consumer demand surged, and fragmented management systems struggled to control growing fishing pressures.

Today, the picture has changed. Ninety-nine percent of the catches of major tuna populations...

Investing in agrifood systems helps countries achieve better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life. In its latest Annual Review, published today, the Food and A...

 A new study by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has re...

Joint FAO-WFP News Release 

Rome – A new joint UN report warns that people in five hunger hotspots around the world face extreme hunger and risk of starvation and death in the coming months unless there is urgent humanitarian action and a coordinated international effort to de-...

The Global Agrifood Biotechnologies Conference 2025 opened today at  the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), bringing together p...