Joint FAO/IAEA Nuclear Techniques Centre works on a vast spectrum of areas that underpin food security and safety

Early estimate for 2021 wheat output positive but 45 countries in need of external assistance for food

FAO is seeking $90 million that could assist 6.3 million people

The FAO Liaison Office with the United Nations in New York continues its series of meetings to increase collaborations and enhance synergies with Member States and United Nations (UN) entities. The new FAO Director of the Liaison Office in New York, QU Guangzhou had a busy and interesting week discussing...

FAO-led discussion puts agri-food systems in focus at Africa Regional Review for LDC5

FAO calls for bold, urgent action to support the world’s most vulnerable

Director-General says joining the Better Than Cash Alliance is part of stimulating more innovation and financial inclusion for smallholders

The shared priority is to translate the common vision into a One Health Global Action Plan

FSNAU-FEWS NET report indicates large-scale food and nutrition insecurity due to multiple threats

A world without hunger is possible, but this cannot be achieved in isolation. The FAO Liaison Office with the United Nations in New York has kicked off the year by strengthening synergies and collaboration with Member States, the United Nations (UN) and its Funds, Programmes and Specialized Agencies. For FAO, 2020...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) have a long standing partnership and have strengthened collaboration in light of the current increase in humanitarian needs, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Desert Locust upsurge. Guangzhou...

Humanitarian crisis continues to exert a terrible toll on children, warn FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO

Members of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) endorsed the first-ever Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition aiming to support countries and others in their efforts to eradicate all forms of hunger and malnutrition by utilizing a comprehensive food systems approach. The endorsement took place during the CFS 47th Session (8-11 February...

Throughout the world, hundreds of varieties of pulses are grown – from dried beans, such as kidney beans, lima beans, butter beans and broad beans, to chickpeas, cowpeas, black-eyed peas and pigeon peas. Although they vary in flavour, in colour, in size, their high nutritional value and important role in...

The 47th meeting of the Committee on World Food Security runs from 8-11 February

Global food prices rose in January for the eighth consecutive month, led by cereals, vegetable oils and sugar, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). FAO's Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of commonly-traded food commodities and was released today, averaged 113.3...

The 34th session will take place from 1 to 5 February. The Committee on Fisheries is a subsidiary body of the FAO Council and was established by the FAO Conference in 1965.

OpEd by Guangzhou QU, Director, FAO New York. At a critical juncture when the world is striving to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 amid the haunting COVID-19 pandemic, I assumed my duty as Director of the FAO Liaison Office in New York. I took office on 1 January 2021,...

The upcoming United Nations (UN) Food System Summit in New York and the Pre-Summit in Rome were the focus of the first meeting of the Group of Friends of Food Security and Nutrition in 2021. The event, hosted by the Permanent Mission of Italy to the UN, and co-organized with...

Nairobi/New York/Rome, 19 January 2021 - A locust fighting force assembled by countries in East Africa to combat an invasion of the crop-devouring pest is at risk of seeing its activities grind to a halt as funding to sustain its operations dries up, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned...