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Transforming agri-food systems is powerful lever for achieving global goals
26/02/2021
In address to Rome’s storied Lincei science institute, FAO Director-General QU outlines Four Betters approach, calls for holistic and systemic...
Building momentum on the ethical approach towards Artificial Intelligence endorsed by Pope Francis
26/02/2021
Pontifical Academy for Life, FAO, IBM and Microsoft mark the first anniversary of the Rome Call for AI Ethics
IN FOCUS: Working with the private sector to build the world we want
25/02/2021
FAO Deputy Director-General, Beth Bechdol speaks about why engaging with the private sector is so important for achieving the SDGs
FAO and IAEA deepen and broaden their collaboration
25/02/2021
UN agencies upgrade their joint work to use nuclear technologies for food and agriculture
Make #NotWasting food a personal resolution
23/02/2021
How you can avoid food waste no matter the holiday
FAO pledges to scale up direct use of digital financial transfers
23/02/2021
Director-General says joining the Better Than Cash Alliance will spur more innovation and financial inclusion
COVID-19: Our hungriest, most vulnerable communities face “a crisis within a crisis”
22/02/2021
In this interview, Dominique Burgeon, Director of FAO's Emergency and Resilience Division, explains the particular challenges COVID-19 poses in vulnerable communities already coping with high levels of hunger due to pre-existing crises -- and how the Orga
FAO honoured to take the rotating chairmanship of the Tripartite
18/02/2021
The shared priority is to translate the common vision into a One Health Global Action Plan
UN and Government of Somalia call for urgent scaling up of emergency response as 2.65 million Somalis are projected to be in acute hunger
17/02/2021
FSNAU-FEWS NET report indicates large-scale food and nutrition insecurity due to multiple threats
One Health
17/02/2021
FAO promotes One Health in work on food security, sustainable agriculture, food safety, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), nutrition, animal and plant health, fisheries, and livelihoods.
There’s always time for a podcast!
17/02/2021
Listen to stories from around the world and deepen your knowledge with these FAO podcasts
Director-General in dialogue with all FAO representatives around the world
16/02/2021
In mid-January, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu stated his vision to the Organization’s senior managers that 2021 will be the year of continued efficiency and increased...
#WorldFoodSafetyDay 2021 / Tune in to the launch of the campaign, 18 February 15:00 CET
15/02/2021
On 18 February 2021 at 15:00 CET the World Food Safety Day campaign for 2021 will be launched with the announcement of the theme for this year’s celebration.
Acute malnutrition threatens half of children under five in Yemen in 2021: UN
12/02/2021
Humanitarian crisis continues to exert a terrible toll on children, warn FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO
CFS Members endorse new Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition
11/02/2021
The guidelines will support countries in their efforts to eradicate all forms of hunger and malnutrition
World Pulses Day 2021 Celebration
09/02/2021
The World Pulses Day Secretariat welcomes your participation in an open event to celebrate World Pulses Day 2021.
Check out our Newsletter December 2020-January 2021 edition!
09/02/2021
This edition of our newsletters brings an update on key FAO’s activities in December 2020 and January 2021 along with a rich resources section which we hope will be of great interest to you.
Harnessing science to transform agri-food systems
09/02/2021
FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, spoke today at a conference entitled Bonding science and policy to accelerate food systems transformation, hosted by the University of Montpellier.
Committee on World Food Security kicks off calling for comprehensive transformation of agri-food systems
08/02/2021
FAO Director-General highlights the need to step up joint efforts to make agri-food systems more inclusive, resilient and sustainable to meet the Sustainable Development Goals
AMR: Curbing the slow-moving pandemic requires intensified actions, says FAO chief
05/02/2021
Prominent global leaders in science, industry and government meet to step up fight against antimicrobial resistance