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Global food prices decline further in January

03/02/2023

The benchmark index of international food commodity prices declined in January for the tenth consecutive month, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reported Friday.

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Putting people, the environment and disaster-risk screening at the centre of projects

30/01/2023

New FAO Framework includes innovative processes to identify potential risks, climate mitigation and resilience measures

Latin America and Caribbean can be at the forefront of global food and agriculture, provided it first tackles hunger and inequality

25/01/2023

FAO Director-General points to priority areas for action to heads of state and government at regional CELAC forum

As the pace of urbanization quickens in Asia-Pacific, so too does the threat of urban food insecurity – UN agencies report

24/01/2023

In 2021, 396 million people in the region were undernourished and an estimated 1.05 billion people suffered from moderate or severe food insecurity.

FAO outlines three pillars of action for initiatives in Ukraine in 2023

22/01/2023

Chief Economist Máximo Torero Cullen briefs Ministers at G-7 meeting in Berlin

Leveraging urban and local agrifood systems for sustainable transformation

20/01/2023

FAO hosts panel discussion at Global Forum for Food and Agriculture in Berlin

Climate finance is key to making agrifood systems more resilient, efficient, sustainable and inclusive

19/01/2023

FAO event at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture in Berlin highlights that agriculture and land use received only 26 percent of the global climate finance flows to all sectors

FAO and SEED launch SDG Agrifood Accelerator Programme for innovators

16/01/2023

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the SEED partnership today officially launched the SDG Agrifood Accelerator Programme, an instrument designed to help agrifood system start-ups develop their ...

Transforming agrifood systems requires changing policies, mindsets, and business models

12/01/2023

FAO Director-General addresses Food Systems National Conveners in targeting follow-up actions to the UN Food Systems Summit

Urgent action needed as acute malnutrition threatens the lives of millions of vulnerable children

12/01/2023

FAO and UN partners highlight five priorities for reducing child wasting in worst-hit countries

FAO’s support for Pakistan: from immediate response to resilience building

09/01/2023

The FAO Director-General addresses the United Nations conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan

World food prices dip in December

06/01/2023

FAO Food Price Index ends 2022 lower than a year earlier

Ukraine: EU-FAO partnership to ensure recovery and development of agricultural value chains

04/01/2023

A $15.5 million EU-funded project aims to respond to disruptions to the agricultural sector caused by war

Somalia: FAO calls for fully funded, at-scale and sustained life-saving and livelihoods support to pull people from the brink of famine

20/12/2022

Alongside this, large-scale investments in resilience and rural livelihoods are urgently needed to break the hunger cycle

Healthy soils must be at the root of our efforts towards sustainable food systems

15/12/2022

Soil heroes and young scientists joined Member States and UN experts on 15 December to celebrate the World Soil Day in New York, calling for the safeguarding of this vital resource for global food security.