FAO celebrates quinoa’s legacy with Peru and Bolivia during World Food Week
17/10/2013
A symbolic harvest and panel discussion on the Andean "super food" highlight the importance of quinoa and other underutilized crops in the fight against hunger
Urgent collaboration required on food wastage
16/10/2013
Seminar on global food losses organized by Italian government
Call for better food systems to fight hunger and malnutrition
16/10/2013
World Food Day observed in 150 countries
FAO partners with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
16/10/2013
Organizations agree on a three-year action plan to improve the food security and resilience of vulnerable communities facing threats and disasters
Coordinated efforts in aquaculture needed to meet global demand
15/10/2013
Global partnership to find sustainable solutions ‘imperative’, FAO says
In Italy-funded programme, organized small farmers become entrepreneurs
15/10/2013
At the opening of World Food Week, FAO highlights the success of the Italy-funded Food Security through Commercialization of Agriculture Programme
Biofuel development should not compromise food security, says CFS
11/10/2013
Committee on World Food Security also stresses policy and investment support for smallholder farmers and producers
FAO Director-General asks private sector to support anti-hunger trust fund
10/10/2013
“What the private sector does locally to combat hunger can quickly become global” - Graziano da Silva
Approche innovante d’achats aux petits agriculteurs pour les repas scolaires en Afrique
09/10/2013
FAO, PAM, Brésil, Royaume-Uni et cinq gouvernements africains à l’œuvre pour donner aux petits agriculteurs et à l’Afrique les moyens de se nourrir
Four million people food insecure in Madagascar
09/10/2013
Rice production badly hit by erratic weather and locust invasion
FAO calls on countries to adapt to food price volatility
07/10/2013
Volatile prices here to stay - Ministers from 30 countries meet to discuss international food prices
Committee on World Food Security meets on hunger challenges
07/10/2013
International platform promotes policy convergence for better food security
Civil society readies its voice ahead of annual CFS meeting
05/10/2013
Director-General opens the International Food Security and Nutrition Civil Society Mechanism (CSM) meeting that will debate a number of key issues during the annual Committee on World Food Security
FAO will cooperate with La Via Campesina, the largest movement of small-scale food producers in the world
04/10/2013
New agreement between FAO and the most representative movement of small producers
World cereal production set to jump 8 percent this year
03/10/2013
Serious food insecurity affects Syria, Central African Republic and DR Congo
IFAD and FAO target small-scale agricultural projects facing challenges
02/10/2013
$2.6 million grant to help countries manage public investments
Global hunger down, but millions still chronically hungry
01/10/2013
842 million people undernourished in 2011-13 - Developing countries make progress but more efforts needed to reach MDG target
FAO, OIE and WHO unite for World Rabies Day to call for elimination of disease
27/09/2013
Mass dog vaccinations and public awareness key to breaking cycle of transmission
Major cuts of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock within reach
26/09/2013
Wider use of already-existing best practices and technologies could significantly help sector reduce outputs of global warming gases
EU and FAO help six countries achieve Millennium Development Goal on hunger
25/09/2013
Teaming up to provide two million people with better nutrition