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EU and FAO agree to accelerate joint efforts to ensure a path leading from the COVID-19 recovery towards the SDGs

05/05/2020

5 May 2020, Rome/Brussels - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu held virtual talks today with Jutta Urpilainen, European Commissioner for International Partnerships. Both parties agreed to step up joint efforts to...

Task Force Focusing on Impacts of COVID-19 on Africa’s Food Security Begins Work

04/05/2020

5 May 2020, Rome – Ensuring people have access to food by keeping borders open for trade is critical during this period of COVID-19 and to achieving the Sustainable Development...

FAO Director-General pays tribute to employees for their resilience and solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic

30/04/2020

30 April 2020, Rome - Director-General QU Dongyu today held a virtual town hall meeting with FAO personnel based at headquarters, as the UN agency prepares a gradual and partial...

FAO Director-General and Rodger Voorhies from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation discuss worsening Desert Locust crisis

29/04/2020

29 April 2020, Rome - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu today had a meeting with Rodger Voorhies, the President of Global Growth & Opportunity at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,...

EU and FAO reaffirm commitment to tackle together immediate and long-term challenges to ending hunger

28/04/2020

28 April 2020, Rome - In an online discussion with Janez Lenarčič, the European Commissioner for Crisis Management, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu thanked the EU for its unwavering and solid...

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