At its 26th Session in October 2018, the FAO Committee on Agriculture (COAG) requested FAO to take the lead to develop voluntary codes of conduct for the reduction of food loss and food waste. In response to the COAG request, FAO developed the Voluntary Code of Conduct for Food Loss and Waste Reduction, which was endorsed by the 42nd Session of the FAO Conference in June 2021. The Voluntary Code of Conduct for Food Loss and Waste Reduction sets out a generic framework of actions and guiding principles that should be followed to reduce food loss and waste (FLW) and...

This video shows the outcome of the School Feeding Programme activated in Portoviejo, Ecuador, in line with the FAO Framework for the Urban Food Agenda. Such project impacts on a very important problem in Ecuador: malnutrition in school-age children, also having a positive effect on the local economy and agriculture...

This report summarizes the major outcomes of the dialogues that were conducted by more than 26 local governments and brought together about 1000 stakeholders under the partnership between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability in contribution to the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021...

Recording of the Virtual Meeting

This video shows the collaboration between FAO, the City of Kigali and the Rwanda Rural Rehabilitation Initiative to create a Task Force on Food Waste Reduction and Management to address these issues...

Recording of the Virtual Meeting

Suriname, a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America, is considered the birthplace of pineapples. Pineapples are cultivated primarily by the indigenous population living in the Savannah Belt. Although the area of pineapple production in Suriname is small, the genetic diversity is extraordinary, and the potential for growth significant...

This study of the dairy value chain in the Oromia region of Ethiopia was conducted as part of the AgrInvest-Food Systems Project, a collaboration between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) to promote private investments in African food systems that contribute to local economic, social and environmental sustainability...

This 3-hour event features two panels of experts and it is a follow-up to the recommendations from the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS)...

In Burkina Faso, rice is a major staple crop and plays a considerable role...