Social protection schemes have played a key role in helping the world’s poor recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and should be expanded, FAO Director-General told the 60th Session of the UN Commission for Social Development in New York.

Director-General opens FAO Regional Conference in Iraq with call for joint regional action.

Rural Multidimensional Poverty Index developed with Oxford University.

FAO's Director-General addresses a high-level panel meeting organized by the UN Economic and Social Council on recovery from COVID-19.

Vegetable oils and dairy products push FAO Food Price Index higher

Tonga volcanic eruption and tsunami throws the vulnerability of the countries into sharp relief as they struggle to reach Sustainable Development Goals

Guangzhou QU, FAO Director of the Office, outlines what you can expect from the FAO New York-based team For the first newsletter of 2022, I wanted to take the opportunity to wish you a Happy and successful New Year once again. Although 2021 has been a challenging year, we worked consistently and coherently...

Funds will protect lives and livelihoods of vulnerable rural communities, lay a foundation for recovery

FAO is gearing up to respond as needed, based on its experience with previous disasters in Tonga and elsewhere

The 2021 physics prize winner delivers a lecture on “Science: the headlight on our future”

In a region reeling from locust invasions and COVID-19, a third-consecutive year of poor rains poses a major threat to food security

The agreement marks the official launch of Phase III of the FAO-China South-South Cooperation Programme after China’s announcement of an additional $50 million in funding

United Nations agencies and their partners should work closer together to make agrifood production more sustainable and energy-efficient, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General QU Dongyu told a UN energy meeting today.

New agreement supports a $7 million multi-donor project which aims to enhance accuracy, accessibility, and transparency of forest dat

FAO’s benchmark index of food commodity prices in 2021 averaged sharply higher than in 2020 Rome - World food prices fell slightly in December as international prices for vegetable oils and sugar fell significantly from lofty levels, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reported today. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 133.7...

We spoke with FAO Deputy Director-General Laurent Thomas about why agriculture must be central in global humanitarian response efforts. With hunger levels rising worldwide, how do you see the humanitarian response in 2022? I believe the humanitarian response in 2022 will have to focus on three priorities: (i) anticipating and preventing crises,...

QU Dongyu, on 2022 poised to be a year of extraordinary efforts leading to extraordinary results.

Funding is intended to support FAO’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery and One Health programmes.

FAO supported consultations on five resolutions during the Second Committee's 76th Session, adopted by the UN General Assembly. The General Assembly considered this month the report of the Second Committee (Economic and Financial), and adopted substantive resolutions related to food and agriculture. FAO actively engaged in the work of the Second Committee.   Against this backdrop,...

Franciscan monks awarded UN Secretary-General António Guterres the Lamp of Peace of Saint Francis, recognizing commitment to the peaceful existence of people and actions to promote dialogue among them.