FAO Investment Centre’s Annual Review highlights successes in 2020 and beyond
28/06/2021
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, FAO Investment Centre has increased support to investment and policies in 120 countries across the world
Improving zoonotic disease prevention and livestock production through nuclear-derived techniques
28/06/2021
FAO and IAEA today opened the International Symposium on Sustainable Animal Production and Health
FAO report maps insights from and threats to Indigenous Peoples’ food systems
25/06/2021
Collaborative study looks at eight Indigenous Peoples’ food systems in Amazon, Sahel, Himalayas, Pacific Islands and Arctic, documenting unique capacity to conserve biodiversity and foster resilient food security and calls for recognizing land rights, and traditional practices
From Conference 41st to 42nd: a new, dynamic FAO has emerged
25/06/2021
The 42nd Session of FAO Conference, the supreme decision-making body that brings together all FAO Members – 194 countries plus the European Union, concluded last week with an endorsement of the Strategic Framework 2022-31
Education is a key lifeline for world’s forests
24/06/2021
New survey points out that forest education must be strengthened to meet global challenges
FAO Director-General opens the 8th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture
22/06/2021
QU Dongyu calls for new solutions to meet the growing demand for food, while reducing the pressure on natural resources and ecosystems
FAO launches Green Cities Action Programme for Africa
21/06/2021
Ambitious plans to help small, medium and large cities become greener, cleaner and integrated into sustainable agri-food systems
Science, innovation and private sector engagement in favour of LDCs
21/06/2021
At a joint high-level thematic event on Least Developed Countries, hosted by the Presidents of the UN General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council, FAO’s Chief Scientist underscored the catalytic role of science and innovation in helping end poverty, hunger and malnutrition
Aimed at building needed policy momentum, financial commitments...
FAO Conference endorses new Strategic Framework to drive agri-food systems transformation
21/06/2021
Members stress the importance of promoting innovation, digital technologies and data
Private sector has a crucial role to play in ensuring healthy diets for all
17/06/2021
B20-G20-FAO Dialogue on Sustainable Food Systems calls on businesses to effect transformative change
Global Environment Facility approves over $46.6 million to support FAO-led projects
17/06/2021
Eight countries will benefit from projects designed to support climate resilience and biodiversity, and combat land degradation and unsustainable fishing
Well-nourished land and healthy ecosystems for a food secure planet
16/06/2021
FAO Deputy Director-General Maria Helena Semedo participated at the UN General Assembly High-Level Debate on Land Degradation, Desertification and Drought, a multi-stakeholder platform aiming to elevate the discourse on the linkages between land action and inclusive, resilient and sustainable development
New York, 14 June 2021 – Unsustainable soil management practices, biodiversity loss...
Bill Gates highlights role of data and technology to end hunger at FAO Conference
15/06/2021
Philanthropist delivered biennial McDougall Memorial Lecture
Live from South Sudan, FAO shares insights behind its work for Zero Hunger
14/06/2021
Kicking off its Summer Series dialogue sessions on food systems, the UN Association of New York convened a digital dialogue with the Rome-based Agencies (RBAs) working for Zero Hunger and food security, with FAO’s Representative in South Sudan sharing milestones and challenges from a country-level context
New York, 10 June 2021 –...
First virtual FAO Conference kicks off with renewed calls for rebuilding a better world
14/06/2021
FAO Members are set to approve the new Strategic Framework for the next decade
Child labour in agriculture is on the rise again, with further deterioration foreseen due to COVID-19
11/06/2021
Ahead of World Day Against Child Labour, FAO calls for this scourge to be tackled through the transformation of agri-food systems
Pivoting innovation and cooperation for inclusive and resilient post-pandemic recovery
11/06/2021
FAO served as the lead entity for the third and final UN ECOSOC Integration Dialogue, where exchanges on catalysing an inclusive post-pandemic recovery included calls for agri-food systems transformation, green recovery, climate resilience, robust social policies and science and data‑led innovations
New York, 10 June 2021 – As part of the preparatory process...
Global food trade is buoyant, as are prices
10/06/2021
FAO’s new Food Outlook report tracks the risks associated with rising import bills amid broad upswing in prices
UN agencies concerned by looming famine in northern Ethiopia, call for urgent life-saving action to avert it
10/06/2021
Over 350 000 people already face catastrophic conditions in Tigray
Food safety is everyone’s business
08/06/2021
FAO and WHO join together to celebrate science and encourage action on World Food Safety Day