On land as in water, there can be no food security without biodiversity: it allows plants and animals to reproduce and grow, adapt to natural and human-induced impacts, resist diseases and parasites, and continue to evolve.

New York – The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, has welcomed the adoption of the Pact for the Future, ...

22/09/2024
NEW YORK - Taking climate action through agrifood systems presents a unique opportunity to address all at once multiple global and local challenges, making it imperative that actors around the world exchange their experiences and information to foster a world with better solutions f...

13/09/2024
Chapada dos Guimarães, Brazil -The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) welcomed the inclusion of fisheries and aquaculture and family farming in this year’s G20 priorities, emphasizing their essential role in global nutrition and livelihoods.

12/09/2024
Amid growing international interest in the role of fisheries and aquaculture in feeding a growing global population while keeping the planet healthy, over 200 experts and policymakers are meeting at the Blue Food Forum to explore the potential of aquatic value chains in driving food...

11/09/2024
Rome – While the decline since 2023 in international commodity prices as reflected by the FAO Food Price Index marks an improvement, uncertainty in the international markets persists and needs to be addressed through transparency and fairness , QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Foo...

06/09/2024
Tashkent – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is encouraging private-sector investments and private-public partnerships to make agrifood systems more efficient, more inclusive, more resilient and more sustainable, Director-General QU Dongyu today told ...

Yerevan – During his three-day visit to Armenia FAO Director-General QU Dongyu, underscored how the country boasts robust environmental resources that can be harnessed to improve rural incomes and farmers’ livelihoods, with agroforestry initiatives offering special promise.

“Farmers have t...

23/08/2024
Molondin, Switzerland - Director-General QU Dongyu has signed, on behalf of FAO, a Letter of Intent with the Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley (SFNV) to promote innovation and safeguard global agrifood systems for the future. 

The signing ceremony took place at an event ...

Farmers are the foundation of food security around the world. Yet, mounting challenges have depleted resources that underpin their success.

The cost of food had steadily risen since the onset of COVID-19 - even before the war in Ukraine sent shockwaves through the agrifood system. Extreme ...

15/08/2024
Wewak, Papua New Guinea – The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), under the EU-STREIT PNG Programme, is supporting efforts to transform the agricultural landscape of the Sepik region. Central to this transformation is the recent establishment of a new Resource Centre and Di...

12/08/2024
Jerusalem/Cairo- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is delivering 2 452 veterinary kits to livestock-keeping households in Gaza to improve animal health and preserve herding livelihoods across the Strip. 

The near ten-month conflict has cau...

In June 2024, a large group of Mashco Piro Indigenous People was spotted on a riverbank in the southern Peruvian Amazon. It was a rare sight, since the Mashco Piro people live in voluntary isolation in the lush forests that cover the region. Nevertheless, in recent years they have appeare...

Innovation is essential for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals. It is also an important accelerator for the transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems and for achieving global goals such as th...

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Mohamed El Yaty recalls the time before 7 October with longing and sorrow.

“We used to wake up at 6 am, finish work at noon, then go back around ‘asr prayer time at around 4 pm until maghrib prayer time. It was all work, work,” says the 39-year-old farmer from Deir al-Balah in the centr...