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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
How to make sure we really leave NO-ONE behind
14/10/2022
Leave NO-ONE behind – this is the theme of this year’s World Food Day, and also an urgent call for the world to face the alarming reality that more and more people are being left behind amid a spiraling global food security crisis as a result of multiple drivers.
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
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
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