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...

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) have named the first World Restoration Flagships for this year, tackling pollution, unsustainable exploitation and invasive species in three continents. These initiatives are restoring almost five mil...

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu participated today in a series of high-level engagements at the 

Rome/Nice, France – Some of the world’s marine fisheries are recovering under strong, science-based management, but many others remain under pressure, according to a report launched today at the UN Ocean Conference by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It shows jus...

Young people must drive the transformation needed to enable aquatic foods to nourish a global population projected to grow by billions, QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, told a youthful audience here on the first official day of the&nbs...