Across southern Iraq, climate pressures continue to affect rural communities, with years of drought and harsh environmental conditions placing increasing strain on vulnerable livestock breeders and threatening livelihoods and food security.

In response to these challenges, and following ...

Smooth honey and glossy chestnuts in the Tropoja villages of the Albanian Alps. The Marneuli villages in Georgia, a safe haven for ecological migrants from the increasing threat of landslides and avalanches. Prized mohair from the Angora goats browsing the hills of Boyali village in Türkiye.

The  Director‑General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),  QU Dongyu called for accelerated action to advance the One Health agenda, warning that persistent capacity ga...

Rangelands are often portrayed as idyllic panoramas or backdrops in films: alpacas ambling through grassy highlands or bison roaming great plains. These are picturesque scenes, but perhaps abstract concepts.

What exactly are these lands and who calls them home? How are these landsca...

World food commodity prices rose in March for the second month in a row, due largely to higher energy prices linked to the conflict escalation in the Near East, according to the lat...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced three initiatives to help enterprising youth in the field of One Health, and outlined the three pillars undergirding the integrated approach that aims to sustainably ba...

The Global Soil Partnership (GSP) brings together more than 700 partners, representing FAO Members, national soil institutions, research centers, universities, the private sector, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, farmers’ associations, and civil society. GSP Partners play ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today scaled up conditional cash assistance to support reactivation of local crop production by an additional 1 000 farmers in the Gaza Strip.

With cash assistance, FAO conservatively estimates that 1 000 farmers can produ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Flanders have launched a new initiative to support rural communities in Mykolaivska oblast of Ukraine. The project will help restore agricultural production, rehabilitate land damaged by warfare and strengthen...

As discussions continue this week at the United Nations in New York on how to operationalize the Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement), a new global initiative is se...

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu launched two important initiatives during his official visit to China, both of which mark an important step forward in FAO’s partnerships with China and, he emphasized, show how the Organization works with countries to deliver practical solutions at scale.

“T...

Reducing food loss and waste is crucial to improving food security, nourishing current and future generations, cutting greenhouse gas emissions and building a more sustainable world.

How much do you know about food loss and waste? Let’s find out! These brainteasers, quizzes, and crosswor...

The Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Máximo Torero, warned that the ongoing disruption to the Strait of Hormuz trade corridor is triggering one of the most severe shocks to global commodity flows in recent years, with significant implication...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved a $50 million project, supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), to enhance the climate resilience of vulnerable smallholders in Jamaica.

The project focuses on areas where climate risks and food security cha...

“We went the furthest I have ever been from land. We only saw one ship a week crossing the horizon. There were birds and whales, and apart from that, just ocean, a deep ultramarine-coloured ocean, as far as the eye could see.”

Scientist Marco Milardi has taken part in a trip of a lifetim...

There is positive but still inadequate and uneven progress in tackling food insecurity in the Asia and the Pacific region, where around 25 million people escaped hunger in 2024, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said at a high-level event hosted during the 

The escalation of conflict in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Middle East has sharply increased risks to global energy, fertilizer, and agrifood systems. The Strait of Hormuz, a critical chokepoint for oil, gas, and fertilizers, has already seen disruptions that are raising energy and agr...

The United Nations-designated International Year of the Woman Farmer (IYWF 2026)  shines a spotlight on the essential yet often overlooked roles women play across agrifood systems - from pr...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) marked International Day of Forests 2026 and