Director-General QU Dongyu participates in Global Review of Aid for Trade hosted by WTO in Geneva

To celebrate World Camel Day on 22 June 2024, a week-long exhibition from June 24-28 took place at the Serpent Bar, Palais des Nations. This celebration, organized by the FAO, together with the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Permanent Mission of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, and the United Nations Office at Geneva, highlighted the crucial role of camelids in local economies as sources of fibre, milk, and meat.

Rome – A new online dashboard released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) provides an intuitive, user-friendly way to visualize connections between FAO’s projects, resource partners, and thematic areas of work, offering an easy way for the public to understand the large amount of project data published by the Organization.

Geneva - The FAO Liaison Office in Geneva (LOG) joined the EC-78 Side Event WMO & Youth: Fostering youth inclusion and engagement in the hydrometeorological community, focusing on the state of the involvement of UN Organizations with the youth community and the impact of climate change on the development of future generations.

Rome – Supplies of most of the world’s major food commodities are expected to be adequate in 2024/25, although extreme weather, rising geopolitical tensions, sudden policy changes and other factors could all potentially tip the delicate global demand-supply balances and impact prices and global food security, according to a new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Rome – FAO Director-General QU Dongyu today inaugurated an exhibition hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia showcasing the evolution of the camelid sector in the country, as part of the global campaign for the International Year of Camelids 2024.

Rome – The 175th Session of the FAO Council, a pivotal governing body of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), began on Monday with Director-General QU Dongyu urging Members to remain focused on core objectives, notably the transformation of global agrifood systems, and “to ensure we do not allow history to repeat itself through famines and destructions of livelihoods.”

Rome – The benchmark for world food commodity prices increased for the third consecutive month in May, as higher prices of cereals and dairy products outweighed decreases in quotations for sugar and vegetable oils, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported Friday.

Rome - The 2024 edition of the State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA) report, a comprehensive analysis issued every two years, reveals a significant turning point. For the first time ever, aquaculture production has surpassed capture fisheries as the main source of aquatic animal products. This achievement offers a promising path towards tackling global hunger while safeguarding our oceans.

Geneva - This One Health dialogue explored the synergies between One Health and wildlife health management, focusing on identifying and preventing the upstream drivers for the emergence and spillover of pathogens, based on field experience in-country.

Rome - Director-General QU Dongyu and the Swiss Confederation FAO National Committee met on 4 June 2024 at FAO headquarters in Rome. 

The 77th World Health Assembly (WHA77) was held from the 27 May to 1 June at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, focusing on the theme of “All for Health, Health for All”. The FAO Delegation to the WHA was composed of Dominique Burgeon, Director of the FAO Liaison Office in Geneva (LOG), Julio Pinto, Animal Health Officer, FAO Animal Production and Health Division (NSA), Xiaoyi Wang, Liaison Specialist, LOG, and Trudy Wijnhoven, Nutrition Officer, FAO Food and Nutrition Division (ESN). FAO contributed to discussions on various agenda items and participated in a selected number of side events.

Geneva – As part of its efforts to increase engagement with local networks and initiatives led by and for youth, the FAO Liaison Office in Geneva (LOG) took part in the “Think & Drink” May event organized by Foraus, the Swiss Forum for Foreign Policy. The monthly series aimed at an audience of students and young professionals features speakers from different organizations present in Geneva to elaborate on topics relevant to the international agenda and spark dialogue and exchange. As the theme of the event in May focused on “Food Technology in Achieving Zero Hunger”, LOG participated as a speaker to present FAO’s work on achieving SDG 2.

Geneva – On the occasion of his trip to Geneva for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the Conference on AI for Good, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu signed Memorandum of Understandings with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Geneva – FAO Director-General QU Dongyu today underlined FAO’s commitment and the wide-ranging initiatives it is implementing to support Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in transforming their agrifood systems.

Valposchiavo - The FAO Liaison Office in Geneva joined the annual meeting of the Swiss cities of Taste, as part of the Organization’s efforts to strengthen partnerships with different Swiss entities in support of the transformation of agrifood systems, especially urban ones, and to increase outreach on the impact of FAO’s work in the host country.

On the occasion of World Bee Day, FAO renewed its partnership for a third year with the UN Office at Geneva (UNOG) and the Permanent Missions of Slovenia, as well as the Mission of Kenya for the first time this year. Together, the five partners organized an event bringing together participants from the International Geneva and local constituencies. The event featured presentations of beekeeping projects from Slovenia/Kenya, Switzerland and FAO, an interactive demonstration of honey production by the association “Printemps d’abeilles” (Bees’ spring) and the Symbolic planting of melliferous and bee-friendly flowers on the grounds of the Palais des Nations. World Bee Day 2024 focused on the theme "Bee engaged with Youth," highlighting the importance of involving young people in beekeeping and pollinator conservation efforts.

Rome - Artificial Intelligence and the ongoing digital revolution will inevitably transform the world and its agrifood systems, making it all the more urgent that the transformations they drive benefit everyone and contribute to solving global challenges, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), QU Dongyu, said Friday at the Business Federations of the G7 (B7) meeting in Rome.

Rome –  While countries in Europe and Central Asia are grappling with conflict and environmental challenges, they are well positioned to pursue the sustainable transformation of agrifood systems and have already taken steps towards achieving many of the core Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, said Tuesday in remarks opening the 34th Session of the Regional Conference for Europe (ERC).

The Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW) is one of the largest humanitarian forums. It provides a unique opportunity for humanitarian stakeholders to meet and address key humanitarian issues, gathering participants from the UN, NGOs, the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement, Member States, the private sector, the military, academia and beyond to discuss and solve common challenges in humanitarian affairs.