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Working hand in hand to improve food security and nutrition prospects for LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS
13/07/2020
13 July 2020, Rome/New York - Following the launch of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 report (SOFI), FAO co-organized a webinar on the subject of Transforming food systems Hand-in-Hand to deliver affordable healthy diets in Leas
FAO Council approves new measures to reform the UN agency
10/07/2020
Rome, 10 July 2020 - The FAO Council today approved a series of measures proposed by the Director-General QU Dongyu to modernize the UN agency and make it more efficient and effective. Composed of 49 member countries and executive organ of the FAO Confere
FAO committed to supporting countries to address water-related challenges
09/07/2020
9 July 2020, Rome/New York – The FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, underscored the importance of water as a fundamental issue for the transformation of agri-food systems, in his address to a special High Level Political Forum 2020 event on the Sustainable
Transforming food systems towards sustainable development
07/07/2020
7 July 2020, Rome/New York – The FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, highlighted the importance of transforming food systems to make them more sustainable during his participation in a panel on Ending hunger and achieving food security promoted by the High L
FAO Director-General calls for an innovative approach to transform food systems affected by COVID-19 pandemic
07/07/2020
7 July 2020, Rome/New York - The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, QU Dongyu, said today the damaging impact of the COVID-19 pandemic called for a global effort to transform food systems and make them more eq
FAO and the EU to explore joint work on European Green Deal
06/07/2020
6 July 2020, Rome – Talks today between FAO Director-General QU Dongyu and the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for the European Green Deal and European Commissioner for Climate Action, Frans Timmermans, focused on the need for food sys
Director-General proposes new structure to make FAO agile and efficient
06/07/2020
Rome, 6 July 2020 - The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today presented to the FAO Council a second set of measures to reform the UN agency. These follow those approved by the Council in De
FAO and Rabobank's new partnership focuses on helping make food systems more sustainable, including through innovative investments
06/07/2020
6 July 2020, Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has signed a new partnership agreement with Rabobank, a Dutch cooperative bank, with the intention of helping targeted rural communities benefit from more inclusive, sus
Agriculture and rural development are critical for the eradication of poverty, as the world’s poor fight the impact of COVID-19, says FAO Director-General
01/07/2020
1 July 2020, Rome/New York - The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, has stressed that agriculture and rural development are critical for ensuring food security and the eradication of poverty,
FAO reforms aim to speed up help for the poorest people
30/06/2020
30 June 2020, Rome - Planned reforms at FAO are aimed mainly at delivering better and more timely services to the world’s most vulnerable people, Director-General QU Dongyu told ambassadors of the G77 countries and China.
“If we don’t achieve efficiency,
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