06/07/2022 Rome/New York - The number of people affected by hunger globally rose to as many as 828 million in 2021, an increase of about 46 million since 2020 and 150 million since the outbreak of the COVID-19...

7 July 2022 – FAO Deputy Director of the Office for Climate Change and Biodiversity Zitouni Ould-Dada visited Brussels to present FAO’s newly adopted Strategy on Climate Change. At the...

7 July 2022 FAO Senior Economist George Rapsomanikis was invited to talk about the challenges of food sufficiency during a hearing organized by the European Economic and Social Committee. Presenting the main...

The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets or SOCO is one of FAO’s most recently established flagship reports. Its first edition came out in 2004, when World Trade Organization (WTO) members...

Do you want to be part of the transformation of our agrifood systems? Are you interested in food and how it shapes our lives and planet? Then read on! The World Food Forum (WFF) is...

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today underscored the critical contribution of science and innovation to the transformation of agrifood systems...

This month FAO Brussels interviewed Zitouni Ould-Dada, FAO Deputy-Director for Climate Change, Biodiversity and the Environment, to hear all about the newly endorsed FAO Strategy on Climate Change and talk about the...

Agrifood systems have been heavily affected by the shocks created by the COVID-19 pandemic and other challenges, exacerbating the divides between urban and rural areas. This has forced us to...

Rome-The FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, met in Rome with the Permanent Representatives of the European Union and its 27 Member States to discuss global food security, opportunities, challenges and role...

The European Union Delegation to Papua New Guinea paid a visit to EU-STREIT Programme's implementation sites in East Sepik and engaged directly with the farmers and beneficiaries.

A new food security and nutrition analysis reveals that famine is unfolding in parts of Somalia, while staggering levels of suffering can be seen across the country. In response, the...

Kent Nnadozie, Secretary of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) and Ewald Rametsteiner, Deputy Director of the FAO Forestry Division, briefed the Council of...

Strong evidence of links between crop production and the soil microbiome and impacts on climate, environment and human health There are few sectors within the bioeconomy that are more exciting than...

The Government of Flanders (Belgium) has just contributed EUR 3 million with the signing of a new agreement with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to bolster the...

Brussels famous InfoPoints continue! And FAO was happy to join DG INTPA in organizing a hybrid Infopoint with participants on-site in Brussels and connected online from around the globe. FAO Türkiye,...

The WFF Annual Meeting is the culmination of all the activities of the year, including policy and scientific discussions (Youth Assembly*), innovation awards (finals of the Transformative Research Challenge, including...

FAO Brussels Director Raschad Al-Khafaji participated in a roundtable discussion organized by the European Strategic Initiative in Brussels. The event assessed ways to strengthen the resilience of African agriculture in...

An even stronger partnership between FAO and the Organisation of Africa, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) is crucial for the efforts of both entities towards global agrifood systems transformation.  This...

FAO Director for Animal Production and Health, Thanawat Tiensin visited Brussels to represent FAO at a High-level Ministerial Meeting on African Swine Fever organized by the European Commission and the...

Digitalization has great potential to drive progress towards an inclusive future for the world’s smallholder farmers, and can help galvanize greater productivity and sustainability of agrifood systems, as well as...