FAO and Slow Food renew collaboration to improve smallholder livelihoods
23/09/2022
Partnership will support vulnerable mountain and island communities and promote practices that safeguard biodiversity.
From data to drops: Optimizing water use is key for agrifood systems
22/09/2022
FAO Director-General addresses water conference on the margins of the UN General Assembly.
Second Joint Statement by the Heads of FAO, IMF, WBG, WFP, and WTO on the Global Food Security and Nutrition Crisis
21/09/2022
A joint call for urgent action to address the global food security crisis.
With drought decimating livelihoods, agriculture must be at core of humanitarian response
21/09/2022
FAO Deputy Director-General, Laurent Thomas, spoke today at a high-level event on responding to the urgent humanitarian needs in the Horn of Africa, taking place on the margins of the UN General Assembly High-level Week.
At today’s high-level event on the humanitarian situation in the Horn of Africa, co-hosted by the Governments...
Food crisis tightens its grip on 19 ‘hunger hotspots’ as famine looms in the Horn of Africa – new report
21/09/2022
Rising conflict, weather extremes, and economic instability aggravated by the lingering impacts of COVID-19 and the ripple effects of the war in Ukraine are among the key drivers.
Agrifood systems transformation can help resolve Latin America’s food “paradox"
20/09/2022
Inclusive and sustainable development needed, FAO Director-General tells CAF Development Bank of Latin America.
FAO calls for solidarity and passion for humanity to combat rising hunger and poverty
20/09/2022
Director-General QU Dongyu addresses high-level event organized by the Clinton Global Initiative in New York.
Global Forum of the UN Decade of Family Farming 2019–2028 begins
19/09/2022
Family farmers need to be at the centre of transforming agrifood systems, FAO Director-General says.
FAO and World Economic Forum bolster collaboration to transform agrifood systems
19/09/2022
Letter of Intent will help guide private sector to contribute to Sustainable Development Goals
Rebuilding livelihoods and setting foundations for long-term development and resilience
15/09/2022
FAO Representative in Colombia, Alan Bojanic, spoke to Member States and food security actors in New York on Colombia’s complex drivers of displacement and how it is accentuating risks of hunger.
Ahead of the High-level Week of the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly, today saw a roundtable discussion entitled ‘The Global Food...
FAO reviews food security situation and proposes actions to ensure food availability and access
13/09/2022
FAO Chief Economist, Máximo Torero, and the Director of the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub, Stefanos Fotiou, briefed the Group of Friends of Food Security and Nutrition in New York in September.
The Group of Friends of Food Security and Nutrition, chaired by the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations, met virtually...
Somalia: Multisectoral, at-scale support will save lives and safeguard livelihoods
13/09/2022
Speaking at today’s Virtual Briefing to Member States on the situation in Somalia, FAO Director of the Office of Emergencies and Resilience, Rein Paulsen, called for multi-sectoral approaches to stave off famine and catastrophic levels of food insecurity.
Today saw a virtual briefing to Member States on the situation in Somalia,...
Food insecurity in Sri Lanka likely to worsen amid poor agricultural production, price spikes and ongoing economic crisis, FAO and WFP warn
12/09/2022
Nearly 30 percent of the population are experiencing acute food insecurity.
FAO and partners push forward with increased South-South cooperation in Asia and the Pacific
12/09/2022
Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD Expo) 2022 kicks off in Bangkok.
Sustainable fishing: Endorsement of transshipment guidelines marks a key move against IUU fishing
09/09/2022
FAO Committee on Fisheries helps to close major loopholes and protect fish stocks.
Fisheries and aquaculture key to providing food, nutrition and jobs across the world, says FAO Director-General
05/09/2022
FAO Committee on Fisheries opens with focus on aquatic food systems’ transformation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Window of opportunity to prevent famine in Somalia is closing, Principals of Inter-Agency Standing Committee warn
05/09/2022
FAO Director-General QU Dongyu joins heads of IASC in a statement.
Famine in Somalia projected, lives of millions of people are at immediate risk, UN says
05/09/2022
FAO calls for immediate, scaled-up assistance to devastated rural communities to avert catastrophe.
World food commodity prices dip for fifth month in a row in August
02/09/2022
FAO Food Price Index dips by 1.9 percent while new FAO forecasts point to lower global cereals output in 2022.
FAO welcomes $83 million USA contribution to emergency and resilience programmes
01/09/2022
Funding to boost efforts in Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Sudan; Sahel and Coastal West Africa also among the list of recipients.