It is my great pleasure, as Officer-in-Charge of the Secretariat of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, to address the Governing Body at today’s opening session. 

Le Traité international a publié une étude intitulée Les plantes qui nourrissent le monde – Données de base et métriques visant à éclairer les stratégies de conservation et d'utilisation des ressources phytogénétiques pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture, rassemblant des données fondamentales sur...

Plus de 600 délégués du monde entier se réuniront à Rome, du 20 au 24 novembre, pour discuter de la manière dont les semences peuvent apporter des solutions innovantes pour la transformation durable de nos systèmes agroalimentaires et la sauvegarde de la biodiversité. Le siège de la FAO à Rome ac...

The loss of biodiversity is seriously undermining our ability to feed and nourish an ever-growing global population. Biodiversity includes not only the plants and animals that we eat and that provide feed, fuel and fibre. Biodiversity for food and agriculture also includes the myriad of organisms...

The CGRFA is an international forum and intergovernmental body established by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The Commission facilitates cooperation and collaboration among member countries to address issues related to the conservation, utilization, and manageme...

CABI’s expertise in the role that Digital Sequence Information (DSI) plays in the conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources for food and agriculture has been shared at a Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) event in Rome, Italy.

The first-ever Global Symposium on Farmers' Rights under the International Treaty of the FAO was inaugurated by the Honourable President of India, Ms Droupadi Murmu, in New Delhi today,  amidst an audience of over 700 people from 52 countries, marking a crucial milestone in the global agricu...

Au deuxième jour du Somment des Nations Unies sur les ODD, juste avant que ne débute le débat général, le Directeur général de l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO), M. Qu Dongyu, a organisé un dialogue ministériel au siège de l’ONU pour examiner les possibil...

Kaveh Zahedi, leading FAO’s Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment is attending high-level events at the UN General Assembly and events in partnership with businesses, climate philanthropists and other stakeholders, as part of Climate Week NYC. He bears a clear message for c...

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The Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA), the only intergovernmental body that deals with all matters specifically related to biodiversity for food and agriculture, is marking its 40th anniversary, and the importance of its work was stressed today during a meeting in R...

This year FAO’s Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture turns 40. Its vision to value and conserve biodiversity for food and agriculture and promote its sustainable use in support of global food security and sustainable development, for present and future generations, is...

Three new sites in Asia are the latest to have been formally recognized as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS), underlining the importance of the continent’s centuries-old agricultural practices in feeding the world’s growing population and combating climate chang...

Today, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, and the Mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, launched the FAO Park - Global Library of Trees and Flowers project, a green space initiative to educate the public about the importance of biodiv...

Au Bhoutan, des jeunes gens se tournent vers l’agriculture après la pandémie de covid-19

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, re-elected on Sunday for a second term at the head of the Organizat...

Capitalisant sur une dynamique de plus en plus forte qui consiste à s’attaquer aux problèmes environnementaux en s’intéressant aux modalités de production des aliments et des fibres que nous consommons, le Fonds pour l’environnement mondial a approuvé 26 projets menés par l’Organisation des Natio...

 Address by Dr QU Dongyu, FAO Director-General

M. Qu Dongyu, Directeur général de l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO), a déclaré, lors d’une réunion des ministres de l’agriculture du G20 que les systèmes agroalimentaires devaient faire partie de la solution apportée à l’appauvrissement de la biodiversit...

Less than nine percent of Uzbekistan has forest coverage and even this is rapidly shrinking because of changing climatic conditions, uncontrolled animal husbandry, increasing demand for industrial and fuel wood and the expansion of irrigated agriculture.