Agriculture and the right farm policies can promote healthy diets but Europeans are in some ways eating worse now than 45 years ago, an international meeting was told here.

In a study recently presented at FAO headquarters following four months of field research in Southern Tigray, Howard underlines “the striking correlation between extreme poverty and female-headed households.” The study was conducted in conjunction with an FAO project on improving food security and nutrition funded by Belgium.

Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain was today awarded the Ceres Medal, coined in her honour by FAO in recognition of her efforts to raise the living standards of rural women in developing countries.

FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf has announced the appointment of two women to top positions in the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

With higher temperatures, unpredictable rainfall, and a potential sea level rise, entailing more frequent or more intense disasters, no part of the world will be safe from the impacts of the changing climate.

The effect of climate change could in many areas of the world "diminish considerably the progress we have made so far in securing gender equality,” said Iceland’s Minister of the Environment, Ms Thorunn Sveinbjarnardóttir

Singer and activist Miriam Makeba says women survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo face a “triple tragedy” of physical, psychological and social damage

Rapid increases in the large-scale production of liquid biofuels in developing countries could exacerbate the marginalization of women in rural areas threatening their livelihoods, according to a new FAO study.

Women make up over half the agriculture labour force yet they are frequently subject to discrimination, poverty and hunger.

There’s not so many feel-good stories coming out of Afghanistan these days, and even fewer about life getting better for women there. But FAO has one to tell.

FAO is to honour five new high profile personalities as Goodwill Ambassadors, the agency announced today.

Agriculture must become more productive if it is to feed a much larger world population while responding to the daunting environmental challenges ahead, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said here today.

Faced with rising world hunger and in response to calls for greater coherence and coordination, members of the FAO Committee on World Food Security (CFS) have agreed on a wide-ranging reform, FAO announced today.

The new site will contribute to a series of global initiatives, focused on ensuring world food security, by highlighting the fundamental role of gender equity in eliminating hunger and poverty

Nereide Segala Coelho, une agricultrice brésilienne, figurait parmi les femmes rurales d'Afrique, d'Asie et d'Amérique latine qui ont participé au débat avec les femmes ministres et diplomates

Jacques Diouf, Directeur general de la FAO: «Pour la FAO, donner aux femmes les moyens d'agir et instaurer l'égalité entre hommes et femmes sont deux elements incontournables dans la marche vers un monde libéré de la faim et de la malnutrition.»

Le Fonds de développement des Nations Unies pour la femme (UNIFEM) est en train de mener un vaste examen des questions de « genre » afin de poser les bases d’une stratégie qui permette de garantir l’intégration d’actions sensibles à la parité hommes-femme

Les trois organisations romaines des Nations Unies - FAO, Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM) et Fonds international de développement agricole (FIDA) – se sont engagées lors de la Journée internationale de la femme à aider les femmes haïtiennes touchées p

La FAO exhorte à se concentrer sur l’autonomisation des femmes et l’égalité entre les sexes pour satisfaire les engagements pris dans la Déclaration et le Programme d’action de Beijing.

Objectif: accroître l'efficacité des efforts de développement rural