FAO applauded today's decision by the United Nations to create two new international days and one entire year devoted to central issues in global food security and nutrition.

Today, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution that emphasizes urgent, concerted, scaled-up action to combat food insecurity and the need to achieve sustainable agriculture and food systems. The resolution, entitled “Agriculture development, food security and nutrition,” expressed concern that the current pace and scope of implementing SDG 2 is...

The UN General Assembly adopted the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) today in an historic agreement aiming to forge a stronger and fairer response to migration. The General Assembly endorsement follows the intergovernmental conference held in Marrakesh from 10-11 December. The GCM is the first intergovernmental agreement on...

FAO has hailed a landmark United Nations General Assembly resolution adopting the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas. The Declaration, which the General Assembly adopted on 17 December 2018, aims to protect the rights of all rural populations including peasants, agricultural and rural workers and indigenous...

The Mountain Partnership/FAO and UNDP’s Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme launched a joint program to promote mountain products with the aim of improving the lives of mountain peoples and conserve mountain environments in the context of climate change. The program was announced during the celebration of International Mountain...

“Since its creation in 2006, CERF is a key partner for FAO to save lives and livelihoods. With CERF funding, FAO has helped millions of people hit by crises to continue producing and accessing food despite violence and natural disaster,” informed Carla Mucavi, Director of FAO Liaison Office in New...

“Soils are a silent ally of sustainable development. To make sure the soil agenda is not forgotten, it must remain in the policy debate and action at the global and national level,” said Carla Mucavi, Director of the FAO Liaison Office to the United Nations, at the World Soil Day...

The Declaration on the Right of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas will be a landmark and support efforts to end poverty, achieve Zero Hunger, and fulfill the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as a whole, said Carla Mucavi, Director of the FAO Liaison Office in New York,...

The international community is failing to end hunger, evidenced by the tragic crisis in Yemen, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) José Graziano da Silva told a high-level briefing on food insecurity to Member States at the United Nations in New York.

“Ensuring the right to food and of peasants and rural workers are necessary steps to fulfill the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” said Carla Mucavi, Director of the FAO Liaison Office to the United Nations in New York, during the Seventy-third Session of the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee...

Over 90 participants from 70 UN delegations gathered at the Finnish Mission at the United Nations on 29 October to express their support for the proclamation of an International Year of Plant Health (IYPH) in 2020. The reception, hosted by the Permanent Mission of Finland, was the culmination of a series...

“We committed to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030, it is now our responsibility to act and reverse the trend of increasing hunger and malnutrition that haunts us today,” said Carla Mucavi, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Liaison Office to the UN, during an event to commemorate World...

“The window to curb global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is closing and success depends on a concerted and scaled-up effort. Sustainable agriculture has a critical role to play,” said Carla Mucavi, Director of the FAO Liaison Office to the United Nations in New York, during the Seventy-third Session of...

“Evidence shows that agriculture policies that contribute to closing the gender gap are among the most effective measures to reduce poverty, increase production, improve social welfare, economic growth and community resilience. In other words, closing the gender gap is an effective pathway to sustainable development,” said Carla Mucavi, Director of...

Climate change will have an increasingly adverse impact on many regions of the world, with those in low latitudes being hit the hardest, warned the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at the United Nations General Assembly Second Committee discussion on Macroeconomic policy, trade and development on 11...

There are few issues that need to be addressed as urgently as the alarming trend in food insecurity, said Carla Mucavi, Director of the FAO Liaison Office to the United Nations in New York, during the Seventy-third Session of the United Nations General Assembly Second Committee General Debate at the...

“There is an increasing pressure to produce more food to feed growing and urbanizing populations. But as we produce more, we also wasting more,” said Carla Mucavi, Director of the FAO Liaison Office to the United Nations, at the event on “Waste not: conversations with chefs and policy makers” on...

The UN Decade of Family Farming will assist achievement of the SDGs, says FAO Director-General

Rethink food systems to improve access to quality food, says FAO Deputy-Director General Maria Helena Semedo

African Union and FAO call for greater support to rural women as agents of change to end hunger