The Horn of Africa is prone to natural shocks and hazards. The region h...

The 2023 United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement (UNFSA) Review Conference, taking place from May 22 to 26, brought together country representatives, experts, and stakeholders to...

FAO highlights role of its programme of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) in preserving biodiversity  and livelihoods and strengthening the nexus between humans and the environment.

Digitalization, innovation-driven solutions and access to finance are essential for the tea sector’s sustainability.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) marke...

Aquaculture has seen enormous progress in recent decades and is destined to produce the majority of the ever-growing demand for aquatic food.

The sector now needs an updated set of gover...

The General Assembly adopted by consensus its resolution on the Implementation of the United Nations D...

Parties to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations<...

In its 18th Session, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF18) convened from UN headquarters in New York from 8 to ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has w...

Detailed, comprehensive and timely data is essential to address the impact of shocks such as droughts, earthquakes or conflict on agricultural production and livelihoods in parts of the world affected by food crises.

Since its launch, during the first wave of the COVID-19 global pandemic...

The benchmark index of international food commodity prices rose in April for the first time in a year, amid increases in world quotations for sugar, meat and rice, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported today.

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The number of people experiencing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, with over a quarter of a billion facing acute hunger and people in seven countries on the brink of starvation, according to ...

Emphasizing the need to work together to achieve the targets of the 2030 Agenda, Director-General QU Dongyu of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) thanked Members for the “strong solidarity” shown by all during the week-long 

After a protracted three-year presence La Niña has left the global atmospheric scene, making way for a likely imminent transition to El Niño, a meteorological event that typically distributes weather patterns in the opposite way. That could be relief for some drought-afflicted areas such as the H...

 

Mountain tourism, if managed sustainably, has the potential to boost the incomes of local communities and help preserve their natural resources and culture. However, a lack of data and knowledge on the subject is preventing them from fully seizing such opportunities.

A report published tod...

Meat, eggs and milk offer crucial sources of much-needed nutrients which cannot easily be obtained from plant-based foods, a new report issued today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) says.  

This is particularly vital during key life stages such as p...

QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), asked Members to muster budgetary consensus to enable progress on the path towards achieving the Four Betters – Better Production, Better Nutrition, a Better Environment and a Better Life for all, le...

Acute food insecurity is on track to reach a 10-year high in West and Central Africa by June of this year - a new study shows - with a worrying expansion of food insecurity into coastal countries, and catastrophic levels of hunger hitting conflict-affected areas of Burkina Faso and Mali where ...