Time to scale up and support Africa’s Great Green Wall  

Learn more about food loss and waste reduction, measurement and policy in times of COVID-19 and beyond.

With Mr Máximo Torero Cullen, Chief Economist and Assistant Director-General for the Economic and Social Development Department at the FAO.

18 June 2020, Geneva – Ahead of the 164th Session of the FAO Council, the Director FAO Liaison Office in Geneva, Ms. Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett invited Permanent Representatives to FAO based in Geneva to an informal briefing to update them on the Further A

The FAO Director-General QU Dongyu closing remarks in the final session of the Joint Meeting of the UN agency’s Programme and Finance Committees. 

“Caution” is the watch word, as some countries lift measures put in place to curb the spread of COVID-19 and others are still grappling to contain it.  

Urgent action required to stem crises, FAO Director-General tells UN High-Level meeting

The 2020 edition of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture has a particular focus on sustainability. This reflects a number of specific considerations. First, 2020 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (

Balancing the Food Security Equation: C3/T3  In his opinion paper, Ahmad Mukhtar (Economist, FAOLOG) states that “Achieving Food Security is one of the most important public policy goals regardless of the level of development of a country. The challenges

Read the FAO Director-General QU Dongyu speech to the Joint Meeting of the UN agency’s Programme and Finance Committees, which took place virtually for the first time in FAO’s history. Qu highlighted his vision of a new FAO, that is more transparent, incl

World’s worst humanitarian crisis is now aggravated by Desert Locusts and COVID-19.

This year, on the second observance of World Food Safety Day (7 June 2020), we all have a chance to recognize the people who help keep our food safe. 

More and more people struggle to have access to or enough food in fragile countries

By observing World Bee Day each year, we can raise awareness on the essential role bees and other pollinators play in keeping people and the planet healthy, and on the many challenges they face today.  

FAO continues to strengthen its work in support of global efforts to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic

New FAO Policy Brief analyzes pandemic-driven recession’s threat to global hunger levels

  QU Dongyu says a coordinated response needed to address the drivers that perpetuate food crises

Annual report on acute food insecurity and malnutrition published

  Director-General speaks to G20 agriculture ministers on behalf of UN food agencies

March 2020 marked one of the most challenging moments in our history, as the global pandemic of COVID-19 intensified