As key agents of change, the current generation of young people must increase food production, replace an aging workforce, and adapt to increasing extreme climate events.

Director-General QU Dongyu calls for global shift in response to crises: from reaction to anticipation

Director-General QU Dongyu highlights challenges and untapped potential in SIDS, LDCs and LLDCs at high-level ministerial event

A vital initiative to boost local food production and restore livelihoods amid ongoing conflict

He delivered the McDougall Memorial Lecture at the 44th Session of the FAO Conference

Transforming Agrifood Systems for Sustainable Development 

Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti, and Mali remain hotspots of highest concern, and Democratic Republic of the Congo has returned as a hunger hotspot to watch

Noting risks, report examines impacts of avian influenza, changing trade patterns since 2022, fish fraud, and shipping industry’s net-zero goals

From FAO Office in South Sudan

Expanded assessment confirms sustainability challenges as well as gains where effective fisheries management is in place

New FAO forecasts point to record global cereal output with a partial rebound in stocks and trade

Findings come from FAO’s upgraded Adaptation, Biodiversity and Carbon Mapping Tool “ABC-Map”, further boosting capacity to assess and confront climate-related shocks

From FAO Office in Ukraine

On the sidelines of the United Nations Committee on South-South Cooperation (SSC) in New York, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ...

Available cropland now at less than five percent, according to latest geospatial assessment from FAO and UNOSAT

World Bee Day 2025 Observance in New York on 20 May at the UN Garden

New IPC analysis reveals alarming escalation in food insecurity due to ongoing hostilities and blockades

Initiative has helped country tap satellite data to improve its own agricultural statistics and drought and flood modelling capacities

World cereal, meat and dairy prices up, while sugar quotations down

New report looks at safety aspects of personalized nutrition, including interaction with medications, dosage and new ingredients