International Year of Millets: Mapping the way forward ahead of 2023
22/03/2022
The Permanent Missions of India and Nigeria to the UN organized with FAO a virtual event today from New York to build momentum towards the International Year of Millets in 2023.
Millets are among the first plants to have been domesticated and are considered "nutri-cereals" due to their high nutritional content....
Building the resilience of rural people in fragile contexts must remain a key priority
21/03/2022
FAO Director-General highlights interlinkage between conflicts and food insecurity at the European Humanitarian Forum.
International Day of Forests: towards a greener future with people and planet working together
21/03/2022
FAO Deputy Director-General Maria Helena Semedo delivered a video message at the New York-based virtual global event marking the International Day.
A virtual celebration of the International Day of Forests brought together the UN community in New York to recognize the vital role of forests for human and planetary prosperity, including...
Sustainable forest use helps tackle the climate crisis and achieve the SDGs
21/03/2022
International Day of Forests: New FAO report focuses on forest products’ contribution to the global bio-economy.
UN Environment Programme joins alliance to implement One Health approach
18/03/2022
Strengthened partnership aims to accelerate coordinated strategy on human, animal and ecosystem health.
Conflict in Ukraine: likely to impact global agricultural markets and food security
16/03/2022
The FAO Chief Economist, Máximo Torero, briefed journalists virtually in New York on an FAO report on Ukraine and the Russian Federation and what the current conflict means for global food markets.
Briefing journalists virtually in New York today was FAO Chief Economist Máximo Torero, who shared latest updates and priority lines...
Livestock: New Sub-Committee offers new policy pathways
16/03/2022
FAO Members, UN agencies and other organizations will identify and discuss major trends and issues of a critical sector.
Empowering rural women: UN joint programme’s new phase to target countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific
16/03/2022
Supported by Norway and Sweden, the programme was first launched in 2014.
UN names 2026 as the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists
15/03/2022
FAO to be lead agency on initiative to raise awareness on importance of pastoralists and rangelands.
Underwater noise pollution: a transboundary source of pollution detrimental to fish and marine-based livelihoods
15/03/2022
FAO and partners are expanding the evidence base on the impact of anthropogenic underwater noise in marine ecosystems, the interruption of which can have grave socioeconomic implications.
Marine areas beyond national jurisdiction cover about 64 percent of total ocean surface area. They are crucial to providing ecosystem services, such as climate...
Stepping up One Health action under FAO’s stewardship as chair of Tripartite Secretariat
15/03/2022
A coordinated approach to human, animal, plant and environmental health made more urgent by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yemen: Acute hunger at unprecedented levels as funding dries up
14/03/2022
Read the joint FAO-UNICEF-WFP Press Release.
Historic FAO Regional Conference concludes in Asia and the Pacific
11/03/2022
Ministers forge consensus on upscaling digitalization of agriculture, greater mitigation efforts against climate crisis and tackling animal, pest diseases.
FAO Director-General addresses G7 Agriculture Ministers on Global Food Markets and Prices
11/03/2022
Access the presentation by the Director-General, Qu Dongyu.
New scenarios on global food security based on Russia-Ukraine conflict
11/03/2022
Qu Dongyu, Director-General of FAO, on core risk factors identified and policy recommendations.
African agriculture’s digital revolution: UN report pinpoints main obstacles and opportunities
10/03/2022
New FAO and ITU study highlights the benefits from the use of digital technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Asia-Pacific countries discuss ways of improving nutrition, lives, livelihoods in the wake of the global pandemic
10/03/2022
FAO Regional Conference focuses on innovation and digitalization to tackle crop and livestock diseases as well as build resilience to climate and weather-related threats.
Ukraine: FAO scales up to support rural families, safeguard food security
10/03/2022
Team on ground regrouped; strengthened with surge personnel; Declaration of corporate scale-up response.
To avert a hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa, support to agriculture is vital
09/03/2022
The Director of the FAO Liaison Office with the UN in New York, QU Guangzhou, spoke today at a briefing to Member States on the recurrent drought and rising humanitarian needs in the Horn of Africa.
At today’s virtual briefing from New York on the drought in the Horn of Africa, the Director...
UN food agencies call for climate adaptation solutions that include women and girls
08/03/2022
Read the joint FAO-IFAD-WFP News Release on International Women’s Day.