Science and Innovation Forum hears how improving soil fertility, irrigation and crop varieties could help.

Flagship publication will help disseminate information on science, technology and innovation in global agrifood systems.

FAO leadership promotes regional Hand-in-Hand initiative to create hope in climate-stressed region with high food insecurity levels and outward migration.

Science and Innovation Forum aims to explore the major scientific developments and discuss the opportunities they present.

Young people will discuss and advocate for ways to ensure access to safe, sustainable, nutritious food and healthy diets.

FAO hosts Investment Forum to catalyze matchmaking between investors and projects serving the vulnerable.

The initiative by the Quadripartite - FAO, UNEP, WHO and WOAH – also aims to contribute to sustainable development.

The FAO Representative in Somalia, Etienne Peterschmitt, spoke to reporters at a press conference from New York on the famine risk and catastrophic food insecurity situation in Somalia, ninety percent of which is facing extreme drought. The deadly combination of prolonged drought due to a historic four consecutive failed rainy seasons, in...

Almost half the population are currently facing acute hunger.

Pope Francis, United Nations Secretary-General, and Italy’s President join other leaders in urging renewed efforts to tackle hunger and malnutrition.

FAO Director-General calls for increased investments in agriculture and resilient agrifood systems to prevent famine in the run-up to the World Food Day.

At a UN General Assembly (UNGA) Second Committee side event, the Director of the FAO Liaison Office with the UN in New York, QU Guangzhou, called for a policy mix to ensure food access and availability in months ahead. Today’s side event ‘The role of trade and logistics in getting food...

Investors are buying into the innovative, inclusive and bottom-up approach to sustainable development in the most vulnerable countries.

UN committee discusses agriculture, food security and nutrition, rural poverty eradication, combatting sand and dust storms, and sustainable mountain development. FAO Chief Economist, Maximo Torero Cullen, addressed the Second Committee today, presenting recommendations on how to advance sustainable agriculture development, food security and nutrition, and efforts to eradicate rural poverty, when introducing two...

Director-General addresses G20 Joint Finance and Agriculture Ministers Meeting.

Prices of vegetable oils lead the decline in September.

At a press briefing today from New York, journalists heard from Máximo Torero, FAO Chief Economist, who spoke on the Food Price Index update for September and its implications for world food commodity markets ahead. The FAO Food Price Index, the gauge for world food commodity prices, saw its sixth monthly decline in a...

New report includes case studies from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Finland, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru and the United Kingdom.

Director-General QU Dongyu addresses EU Bioeconomy Conference on 10th anniversary of strategy launch.

Investing in a sustainable future means investing in youth.