It’s high time to turn the “Right to Foods” for a healthy, nutritious and affordable diet into reality
16/10/2024
This year the theme for World Food Day is “Right to Foods for a Better Life and a Better Future.” It’s a timely reminder that all people have the right to adequate foods.
Fostering sustainable agrifood systems: united for a more people-centered, prosperous, and shared future
14/05/2024
Europe and Central Asia have a great potential for the global contribution to food security by producing more with less. However, the challenges to our shared vision of a more people-centered, prosperous, and equitable future are as diverse and expansive as the terrains of the 50-plus countries that make up this region.
Unlocking Africa’s potential through agrifood systems transformation and capacity building
18/04/2024
Africa holds the key to moving towards a world free from hunger and poverty. It is in Africa where enormous gains can be made, and agrifood systems transformation is the definitive foundation for the continent to realize sustainable development and modernization.
Agrifood systems: a path to sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean
18/03/2024
Every two years, FAO holds a Regional Ministerial Conference in Latin America and the Caribbean, bringing together its 33 Members in the region to monitor progress and address the challenges towards fighting hunger, poverty, malnutrition, and inequalities, and to achieving the transformation of agrifood systems to be more efficient, more inclusive, more resilient and more sustainable.
Accelerating the transformation of agrifood systems in the NENA region
27/02/2024
The world is facing a major challenge in achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2), which seeks to eliminate hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030. This is particularly true in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region, which in recent years has experienced a worrisome surge in food insecurity.
Website: FAO
Agents of Change – Making all countries in Asia and the Pacific more dynamic, healthier, wealthier, and better
20/02/2024
We all know that we live in a changing world. In the vast area of Asia and the Pacific that change is most evident. Over the past 20 years, the economies of many nations in the region have been moving out of the category of ‘least developed’ and graduating into a ‘middle income’ status.
Website: FAO
FAO ready to follow up on the UN Food System Summit and transform Agri-Food Systems Together
15/09/2021
The 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are approaching; we have to change our agri-food systems urgently and holistically.
Website: FAO
Transforming our agrifood systems
03/03/2022
The current nutrition situation in Asia and the Pacific is difficult in many areas across the region. About 40% of its inhabitants cannot afford a healthy diet, and in some areas the fight against hunger has seen reversals rather than advances.
Website: Bangkok Post
Why Paraguay Can Be a “Beacon State” for Forest Management
14/02/2020
Imagine a forest that covered half of your entire country. A biodiverse forest which supports thousands of species from giant anteaters to armadillos to jaguars. A forest that is home to one the world’s last uncontacted tribes.
Website: Inter Press Service
Keep global food chains alive amid COVID-19 crisis
01/04/2020
The COVID-19 outbreak has created logistical bottlenecks in food supply chains. So how can we ensure this health crisis does not turn into an avoidable food crisis? This op-ed discusses some ways to help minimize disruptions.
Website: devex
Coronavirus could worsen hunger in the developing world
10/04/2020
Even as it takes its distressing toll, the current pandemic has generated a flurry of less sombre memes. Some of these involve people stuck at home, unable to tear themselves from the pantry, piling on the pounds. But for many in the developing world, the lockdowns mean the exact opposite: they cannot get anywhere near the pantry.
Website: World Economic Forum
COVID-19: Keeping fed as the disease bites
25/04/2020
It takes a village to raise a child, Africans like to say. But you could just as easily argue the opposite: it takes a child to raise a village.
Website: Nigerian Tribune
Time to restore human relations with nature and biodiversity
26/05/2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is a deep and lasting shock at a global level. We all know that returning to “business as usual” is not an option. It is imperative that we perceive the crisis as an opportunity to rebuild – and even improve – livelihoods in a sustainable way. High on the agenda is restoring harmony to humanity’s relationship with nature, and, particularly, with biodiversity.
Fighting two pandemics hand in hand in Asia and the Pacific
31/08/2020
Ending hunger and poverty amid COVID-19 impacts will require leveraging agricultural technology, innovation and partnerships
Website: China Daily
Renewed sense of purpose
05/10/2020
Pandemic has shown that the mission of the FAO is as relevant now as the day it was founded
Website: FAO
Act now against root causes of food insecurity
05/02/2022
The future of food seems more and more uncertain in the Near East and North Africa region as it faces growing food insecurity and malnutrition. We can and must act now to address the root causes of this situation and transform the structures governing how what we eat is produced, distributed and consumed.
Website: Arab News
Fostering innovation in agrifood systems to nourish people and nurture the environment in the NENA region
06/02/2022
The future of food seems more and more uncertain in the Near East and North Africa (NENA region), as it faces growing food insecurity and malnutrition.
Website: Ahram Online
Safeguard the high life
11/12/2020
Mountains are home to a growing number of the hungriest people in the world.
Website: China Daily
New Scenarios on Global Food Security based on Russia-Ukraine Conflict
11/03/2022
Over the past two years, COVID-19 has presented many challenges to global food security. Today, what is happening in Russia and Ukraine adds another significant challenge.
Website: FAO
Africa’s New Harvest: Sustainable development by innovation for transformation
29/03/2022
A promising transformation has already started in Africa’s farmlands. Family farmers are increasingly using innovative approaches and scientific research, combined with traditional knowledge, to increase the productivity of their fields, diversify their crops, boost their nutrition and build climate resilience.
Website: Namibia Economist