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FAO and UN Habitat stress the need for narrowing the gap of inequality between rural and urban areas
30/10/2020
30 October 2020, Rome - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu and Executive Director of UN Habitat Maimunah Mohd Sharif agreed today to renew their commitment to work closely together on rural-urban development issues and find new ways to strengthen linkages bet
Director-General shares FAO reforms in meeting with retirees
28/10/2020
28 October 2020, Rome - The Director-General QU Dongyu today adressed the 50th Session of the Former FAO and Other UN Staff Association (FFOA), which represents retirees from FAO and other United Nations (UN) institutions, particularly WFP and IFAD.
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FAO’s Hand-in-Hand initiative can help end hunger and poverty in Africa
28/10/2020
27 October 2020, Accra/Harare/Rome - Agriculture ministers from across Africa, representatives from the African Union, the civil society and the private sector, and other partners, recognized the role FAO's Hand-in-Hand Initiative can play in ending pover
FAO aims to untap Africa's potential to end hunger and malnutrition
27/10/2020
27 October 2020, Rome/Harare - The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations QU Dongyu says Africa's potential gives him hope that the battle against poverty and hunger can be won. He made the remarks at today's openi
FAO consults its Members to develop the next ten-year Strategic Framework
23/10/2020
23 October 2020, Rome – FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, and senior managers held today a first informal virtual consultation with Members to discuss the outline of FAO’s Strategic Framework 2022-2031.
The meeting had the objective to seek inputs from th
Canada and the U.S. join FAO in commemorating the UN agency’s 75th anniversary
22/10/2020
22 October 2020, Quebec City/Washington, D.C./Rome - Many of the global challenges that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was set up to address are still prevalent today, including chronic undernourishment, high-level participant
Strong support for innovation and digital technologies in Latin America and the Caribbean
21/10/2020
21 October 2020, Managua/Santiago/Rome - The 36th Session of FAO's Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean ended today with FAO Members in the region agreeing to join efforts to fight COVID-19 and promote sustainable agri-food systems thr
Director-General engages with Italian parliamentarians on partnership potential
21/10/2020
21 October 2020, Rome - Italy's agri-food system offers lessons on the transformations the world needs, and the nation is playing a critical role by promoting a multilateral food coalition that is closely aligned to FAO's own rural development framework a
FAO calls for collaboration and innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean
19/10/2020
19 October 2020, Managua/Santiago/Rome - The 36th session of FAO's Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean, hosted virtually by the Government of Nicaragua, started today with Members exchanging their experiences, strategies and ideas on t
FAO 75th Anniversary Observance - World Food Day 2020
19/10/2020
Remarks of the Director-General QU Dongyu.
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