Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today kicked off a global celebration for International Tea Day 2023 at its Rome headquarters, ahead of the official day which annually falls on 21 May as designated by the United Na

Food insecurity and malnutrition in West and Central Africa at 10-year high as crisis spreads to coastal countries

The FAO Liaison Office in Geneva (FAOLOG), in collaboration with the Agrifood Economics Division (ESA), organized an event titled "Coffee with FAO" at the UN Palais on 17 May 2023. The purpose of the event was to share and discuss the FAO flagship report

Geneva – Richard Trenchard, FAO Representative in Afghanistan, speaking from Kabul, addressed the Geneva press corp on the warning of a large-scale outbreak of the Moroccan Locust in Afghanistan at the Biweekly Press Briefing organized by the United Natio

Representatives of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS Conventions) met in Geneva, Switzerland from 1 to 12 May 2023, to take legally binding action regarding the impact of hazardous chemicals and wastes on human health and

Geneva - The FAO Liaison Office in Geneva (LOG), together with the FAO Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB) organized an Informal Dialogue on “FAO and the international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution: the role of p

Geneva - FAO and WFP organized a joint Geneva Briefing, to provide an overview of the 2023 Global Report on Food Crises, highlighting the current food crisis situation and insights on the drivers and potential solutions. Especially, the briefing provided

Geneva – The FAO Liaison Office in Geneva, in collaboration with the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, organized the first session of the Geneva Fisheries Trade Talks series of 2023 at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to discuss the global fisheri

Geneva – Upali Galketi Aratchilage, Senior Economist at the FAO Markets and Trade Division, addressed the Geneva press corp on the latest updates of the FAO Food Price Index for April 2023 at the Biweekly Press Briefing organized by the United Nations Inf

Geneva - The Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW) is an annual humanitarian conference, one of the largest events of its kind, that brings together practitioners and experts from various humanitarian stakeholders, including UN agencies, NGOs

FAO Council begins, Members discuss the Organization’s Programme of Work and Budget 2024-25

Geneva, Switzerland - The Environment Management Group (EMG), together with UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and FAO, organized a Nexus Dialogue on Sustainable Nitrogen Management at the International Environment House in Geneva, Switzerland. This dialogue

Geneva - The FAO Liaison Office in Geneva and the Food and Nutrition Division (ESN) organized the seventh issue of the FAO in Geneva Nutrition Dialogue Series on “Advancing Human and Planetary Health: Enabling Healthy Diets and Addressing Climate Change”.

Boosting Small Island Developing States’ ability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Crop seeds return from space in IAEA/FAO project to help feed a warming world

Geneva - Upali Galketi Aratchilage, FAO Senior Economist at the Markets and Trade Division, addressed the Geneva press corp on the latest updates of the FAO Food Price Index for March 2023 at the Biweekly Press Briefing organized by the United Nations Inf

Sustainable development is a pressing issue that requires global attention. To ensure that no one is left behind, it is essential that agrifood systems be made more sustainable, equitable and resilient.

Geneva – FAO participated in the 52nd Session of the Human Rights Council that took place in Geneva from 27 February to 4 April 2023 and contributed to several events. During the session, the Council held various thematic discussions, including on the ri

Rome - Around 1.23 billion people were employed in the world’s agrifood systems in 2019, and more than three times that figure, or almost half the world’s population, live in households linked to agrifood systems, according to new research by the Food and

LOGin is a feature interview series regularly organized by the FAO Liaison Office in Geneva (LOG). Through LOGin, we meet with FAO’s core leadership and discuss a corporate initiative. As the first edition, we talked with Maximo Torero, FAO Chief Economis