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FAO Director-General calls for a collective and collaborative approach to face COVID-19
08/04/2020
8 April 2020, Rome – The COVID-19 pandemic “affects everyone in every country, rich and poor” and tackling it requires planning ahead to anticipate the problems it causes as well as robust international cooperation, FAO Director-General (DG) QU Dongyu sai
Coping with lockdown: Tips from space
06/04/2020
6 April 2020, Rome - Italy’s celebrated Paolo Nespoli spent his 63rd birthday sharing with FAO’s global staff his experience of confinement as a career astronaut. Hundreds tuned in from home isolation to watch him expound on the analogy between spacecraft
COVID-19: Joint Statement by FAO, WHO and WTO Directors-General
31/03/2020
Joint Statement by QU Dongyu, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Roberto Azevedo, Directors-General of FAO, WHO and WTO.
World Economic Forum: FAO Director-General speaks against food trade restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic
30/03/2020
30 March 2020, Rome – FAO Director-General QU Dongyu, today invited the World Economic Forum (WEF) to work with the UN agency in protecting and strengthening food supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Director-General noted that supermarket she
FAO Director-General urges G20 to ensure that food value chains are not disrupted during COVID-19 pandemic
26/03/2020
26 March 2020, Rome/Riyadh - The Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), QU Dongyu, today urged leaders from the G20 countries to take measures for global food systems to continue to work well, particularly in relation to acces
FAO Director-General: "Improved water management in agriculture is essential to deal with climate change."
22/03/2020
On the occasion of the World Water Day, QU Dongyu encouraged all countries and people to prioritize water and sound water resources management.
“We need to care for our only home – our planet Earth – by caring for our forests.”
20/03/2020
20 March 2020 - In this video message, QU Dongyu highlights the need for biodiversity-smart food systems to tackle climate change, deforestation and forest degradation.
FAO Director-General: “women are central” in food systems
06/03/2020
Millions of rural women in developing countries face hurdles and higher food insecurity.
Chinese President XI thanks FAO, IFAD and WFP for “staunch support” in dealing with COVID-19 outbreak
02/03/2020
2 March 2020, Rome – XI Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China has expressed his gratitude to FAO, IFAD and WFP for what he has described as the “staunch support” provided to his country by the three Rome-based UN agencies in dealing with th
Harnessing AI’s transformative power to make food systems more efficient, sustainable and inclusive
28/02/2020
FAO Director-General signs up to ethical resolution on Artificial Intelligence endorsed by Pope Francis.
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