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17/03/2025
Averting losses of hundreds of millions of poultry crucial to mitigate impacts on food security, nutrition and affordability of poultry products
17/03/2025

Commission on Phytosanitary Measures: FAO Director-General highlights the need for innovation and digital solutions to strengthen global cooperation, ensure safer trade and to protect human, animal, and environmental health

14/03/2025

New FAO study notes a nearly 40 percent price surge in 2024 due to supply-side disruptions, primarily from unfavourable weather

13/03/2025
FAO is chief implementing agency for the Green Climate Fund’s first single-country project in Somali
10/03/2025
FAO assumes joint custodianship of indicator seen as key to ending malnutrition
09/03/2025
The world-famous team brings its energy and commitment to the fight against food insecurity and waste
07/03/2025

Higher sugar, dairy, and vegetable oil prices drive the overall increase

06/03/2025
Rome-based UN agencies unite under the theme: For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment
26/02/2025

Somalia: Drought, conflict and high food prices risk pushing 4.4 million people into hunger, the Federal Government of Somalia and UN warn

25/02/2025
Results from Pacific fishing areas are presented at Honiara Summit in Solomon Islands
24/02/2025
Colombia, the CBD Secretariat, and FAO join efforts to spotlight the importance of including agrifood systems in National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans
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