Agrifood systems are facing an escalating threat from climate change-induced loss and damage, and actions – including increasing financing— must be taken to address their vulnerabilities, according to a new...

Food security and climate change are interlinked and global agrifood systems are the climate solution, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, told Heads of State and Government reunited at the 

Throughout the month of November, FAO experts participated in key events in Brussels, contributing to discussions on vital topics related to climate change, agriculture, and sustainable agrifood systems.

Rosa Rolle, FAO's Senior Enterprise Development Officer, participated at the 14th me...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched today its annual Statistical Yearbook, covering the latest trends in the world’s agrifood systems and highlighting for t...

As the world grapples with the urgency of climate action, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will highlight at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference COP28 the unique potential of agrifoo...

The global food standards body, the Codex Alimentarius Commission began...

Olive production dates back thousands of years and continues to play a vital role in Tunisia's economy to this day, with olive groves covering about a third of the North African country's arable land. However, while Tunisia ranks third among the top exporters of olive oil in the world, most of...

As the world gears up for the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP28, in a year with soaring temperatures and progressive extreme weather events, attention is turning towards innovative solutions to address th...

Fighting global hunger requires greater and better investments in science, technology and innovation to ensure that our agrifood systems are able to produce more with less while leaving no one behind, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) tol...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global threat of increasing concern to human and animal health. It also has implications for food safety, food security, and the economic well-being of millions of farming households.

In time for the World AMR Awareness Week, discover how FAO is ...

The role of seeds in addressing global challenges, such as loss of biodiversity and climate change, and the need for greater variety in the world’s “food basket” of key crops has come into sharp focus amid multiple crises and will be at the core of discussions as the governing body of the trea...

Building momentum toward greater investment in Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) in Asia - involving both public and private sectors - is critical to meeting the challenges of climate change and securing millions of livelihoods across the region, an FLR investment forum heard today.

Following the outbreak of conflict in Sudan in April 2023, plunging nearly half the population into a humanitarian crisis, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) distributed nearly 10,000 tonnes of seeds to 1 million farming households – or 5 million people – in time fo...

In countries of Europe and Central Asia, as well as globally, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) furthers the identification and registration of new geographical indications

I am profoundly distressed by the loss of lives and the human catastrophe unfolding due to the violence taking place in the Middle East, and most particularly in Gaza.

I join the Secretary-General, and my colleagues in the IASC in calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire to ease c...

A pasture system in Andorra, hay milk in Austria, areas growing chestnuts, white ginger and waxberries in China, flood-spreading gardens and a walnut cultivating region in Iran and an all-female fishery in the Republic of Korea have become the latest additions to