FAO’s The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2020 takes a new look at water shortages and scarcity in the world

Global Female Voices join FAO in the need for solidarity and urgent action

Read the Director-General opening remarks on the last day of the Sustainable Innovation Forum. 

Pope Francis today received FAO Director-General QU Dongyu for a meeting at the Vatican

Director-General QU Dongyu speaks at the G20 Leaders' Summit

FAO highlights fisheries' crucial and growing contribution to food, nutrition and livelihood security.

18 November 2020, Geneva – FAO Liaison Offices in Geneva and Brussels joined hands to invite Ambassadors and Permanent Representatives from non-Rome based Delegations, in Europe, for an informal briefing on the 165th Session of the FAO Council to be held

Get the basics, challenges and outlooks on this global health threat

The FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, today addressed the Joint Meeting of the 129th Session of the Programme Committee and the 183rd Session of the Finance Committee, two of FAO’s governing bodies that report to the FAO Council, which will meet from 30 No

Burkina Faso, northeastern Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen cause for concern but acute hunger on the rise across the globe

Global alliance proposed by Italy and led by FAO aims to put zero hunger goal back on track after pandemic

FAO’s Regional Conference for Europe kicks off hosted virtually by Uzbekistan

Seventy-five years down the line, FAO’s name, ambition, and spirit remain: everything else has changed, and will change further.

Sustainable growth in Agriculture is not only a national priority in all countries but a global endeavor as well, particularly to achieve the SDG-2. There are, however, some perceptions that rules of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) agreements may hin

Largest ever Regional Conference for Africa closes with united call for raised ambitions

This month is an important one in the history of multilateralism and in the efforts to end hunger as both - the United Nations and its specialized agency, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - are celebrating their 75th anniversary

Monday, 19 October 2020. Geneva took the centre stage in the commemorations of the #WorldFoodDay 2020 that took place on 16 October and celebrated in over 150 countries. Celebrated under the theme “Grow, Nourish, Sustain. Together: Our Actions are our Fut

Italian ministers and Rome mayor join Director-General to also light up FAO HQ

World Food Day celebration calls for building back better and honours food heroes

Rome-based UN agencies' governing bodies focus on joint programmes, COVID-19 response and UN Food Systems Summit 2021