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...

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 ...

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...

Our current agrifood systems impose huge hidden costs on our health, the environment and society, equivalent to at least $10 trillion a year, according to a ground-breaking analysis by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), covering 154 countries. This represents al...

The new United Nations report, Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2023, states that 6.5% of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean suffers from hunger, or 43.2 million people.  

Although this figure represents a slight improvement of 0.5 percentage points ov...

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

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.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today. Drug-resistant microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites can spread between and within animal, human, and plant populations and migrate through the environm...

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...

In his International Youth Day 2023 message, QU Dongyu announces the establishment of FAO’s new Office for Youth and Women

From the hamlets where Sperian Kapia and his fellow cocoa farmers live by the massive Sepik River, it takes more than four hours by boat and truck through the rugged, dense rainforest of the Pacific Island state of Papua New Guinea to get to Wewak, the nearest town of about 25 000 people.

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Two innovative products of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) won prizes at the fifth annual GEO SDG Awards, which recognize institutions, organizations and coun...

EU-STREIT PNG Programme provides fisher communities with knowledge and quality equipment to drive the sustainable development of fisheries value chains in the Sepik region.

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 

 Halfway into the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a lot of the progress made towards its food and agriculture-related targets has stagnated or reversed, compounding the challenges in eradicating poverty and hunger, improving health and nutrition, and combating ...

This year’s World Food Day celebrates one of the planet’s most precious resources: water. It’s essential to life on Earth. It covers the majority of the planet’s surface, makes up over 50 percent of our bodies, helps keep us fed, supports  livelihoods and is central to achieving the 2030 ...

The 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly marks a crucial milestone in the journey towards achieving the 2030 Agenda and the urgent need to put the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) back on track. 

The world will come together around the theme ‘Rebuilding trust and...

At this year’s World Food Day, and with the support of numerous national entities, organizations, comp...

FAO Brussels Director Raschad Al-Khafaji highlighted the importance of a systemic approach and FAO’s extensive work of two decades in promoting healthy school meals at the inaugural School Meals Coalition Global Summit held in Paris, France on 18 and 19 October. 

The Summit, attende...