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...

The world's farmers produce enough food to feed more than the global population yet, hunger persists. Around 733 million people are facing hunger in the world due to repeated weather shocks, conflicts, economic downturns, inequality, and the pandemic. This impacts the poor and vulnerable most sev...

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...

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...

The benchmark for world food commodity prices was broadly unchanged in July for the second month in a row, as increases in international quotations of vegetable oils, meat products and sugar offset an ongoing decrease in those for cereals, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Natio...

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 

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 “

30/07/2024 Rome - The President of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Ambassador Dennis Francis, highlighted today the critical role of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and other UN Rome-based Agencies in addressing food crisis –currently one...

24/07/2024 Rio de Janeiro – Around 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, equivalent to one in eleven people globally and one in five in Africa, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published today by five United Nations specialized agencies.