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21/02/2025
The funding will support 14 critical projects across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East
20/02/2025

Interview with Kaveh Zahedi, Director of the FAO Office of Climate, Biodiversity and Environment

20/02/2025
Director-General addresses meetings of G20 Foreign Ministers in South Africa and reaffirms FAO’s commitment to Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty
18/02/2025
The initiatives worth over $130 million will benefit over 6 million people and address the interconnected challenges of climate change, agriculture, forestry, and energy security
18/02/2025
FAO and Italy lead discussions on origin-linked products, sustainability and innovation
14/02/2025
FAO Director-General addresses High-Level Side Event at African Union Summit in Addis Ababa hosted by the King of Lesotho
11/02/2025
As the world marks World Radio Day 2025 on 13 February under the theme Radio and Climate Change, it is worth reflecting on the fundamental role of radio in rural communication.
10/02/2025

The World Food Forum (WFF)'s Global Youth Action Initiative (Youth Initiative), in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' (FAO) Liaison Office in Geneva, the FAO Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division and the International Labour Organization (ILO), hosted its first Thematic Youth Assembly consultation of 2025 on supporting women and girls in decent rural employment.

07/02/2025
International quotations for sugar and vegetable oils drive FAO Food Price Index lower
07/02/2025
FAO and UNOOSA emphasize importance of collaboration to make space technologies benefit small-scale farmers
06/02/2025
Statement of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
28/01/2025
Latest geospatial assessment from FAO and UNOSAT highlights devastating impact of conflict on agrifood systems infrastructure
22/01/2025
From FAO Regional Office for Near East and North Africa
20/01/2025
Ministers of Agriculture from across the world agreed to accelerate the transition to a biomass-based economy, with food security, nutrition and climate action at its core
20/01/2025
FAO publishes comprehensive report on Sustainable Nitrogen Management in Agrifood Systems
14/01/2025

The Food Systems Countdown Initiative report identifies governance and resilience as pivotal leverage points for food system transformation

06/01/2025
FAO Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol briefs the UN Security Council on Sudan’s food crisis
03/01/2025
In 2024 the benchmark measure of world food commodity prices averaged 2.1 percent below its 2023 level
24/12/2024

Once these conditions are met, FAO can assist with projects to repair boats and equipment and to inject emergency funds