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FAO launches new Aquatic Genetic Resources Information System (AquaGRIS)
23/09/2024
UNGA79: FAO chief emphasizes the centrality of climate solutions for agrifood systems transformation
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...
G20 backs FAO’s Blue Transformation for sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, highlights family farming
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.
Blue Food Forum examines the role of fisheries and aquaculture in food systems transformation
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...
Transparency and efficiency in international agricultural markets and trade are priorities to achieving food security
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...
Private-public partnerships are key to agrifood systems transformation
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 ...
In Armenia, Director-General visits forestry, school feeding and viticulture projects
02/09/2024
“Farmers have t...
World Food Day 2024: Right to foods for a better life and a better future
02/09/2024
FAO and Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley forge agrifood systems innovation partnership
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 ...
Agricultural aid is humanitarian aid
21/08/2024
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 ...
EU-STREIT PNG's Digital Hub Empowers Nuku Farmers in Papua New Guinea to Connect and Thrive
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...
Gaza: FAO delivers more than 2 400 veterinary kits to protect livestock and sustain livelihoods
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...
Celebrating the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2024
09/08/2024
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...
Download 'The State of the World's Forests 2024' report to learn the latest data on forests and strategies for reducing deforestation
06/08/2024
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...
FAO-UN Collaboration
05/08/2024
We are pleased to share below the latest highlights and useful resources ...
Restricted local food production exacerbates the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip
05/08/2024
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...
Famine conditions in parts of Sudan: FAO urges at scale life-saving assistance to boost local food production
05/08/2024
Rome – In response to alarming new findings confirming famine conditions in parts of Darfur, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is urging an immediate cessation of hostilities, rapid scale up of life-saving food, nutrition and cash assistance as well a...
FAO Food Price Index broadly unchanged in July
02/08/2024
Healthy diets remain unaffordable for a third of the world’s population
01/08/2024
More than a third of the world’s population could not afford a healthy diet in 2022, and some regions have yet fully to recover from the harms wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an innovative data set published in the 2024 edition of
FAO and EU sign 47 million euro programme to enhance resilience and food security for pastoralists in Eastern Africa
30/07/2024
Nairobi/Rome — The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the European Union (EU) have signed a four-year 47 million euro programme designed to strengthen the resilience of pastoralists in Eastern Africa.
The initiative, named “