World Food Day 2018 – multimedia resources and key messages
11/10/2018
Overview: theme and key messages
The World Food Day 2018 (WFD) - marked each year on 16 October - highlights the need to step up efforts to end hunger as, globally, chronic hunger and ...
Urgent need to step up efforts to end hunger and malnutrition in all its forms
16/10/2018
World Food Day official ceremony highlights Zero Hunger goal still possible
Policies should not stem migration, but maximize its potential and minimize negatives
15/10/2018
New report analyses links between rural and international migration
Addressing nutrition is primarily a public policy issue
13/10/2018
FAO Director-General calls for guaranteeing healthy diets through legal and institutional frameworks
No time to lose to reverse negative hunger and malnutrition trends
15/10/2018
Committee on World Food Security has a leading role in delivering concrete policies, FAO’s director-general says
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Harnessing the power of livestock to drive sustainable development
17/10/2018
Sector can make major contributions to the 2030 agenda, but important choices have to be made
Green Climate Fund approves $127 million project for El Salvador's Dry Corridor
19/10/2018
225,000 people to benefit from the FAO-designed project which will receive $91.8 million from the Salvadoran Government and the Initiative for the Americas Fund
Unlocking the carbon storage potential of forests through better data
19/10/2018
UN-led effort helps developing nations improve forest monitoring and management to counter climate change
Committee on World Food Security focuses on food systems and nutrition
19/10/2018
Key multi-stakeholder forum agrees to draft voluntary guidelines to reverse growing malnutrition rates
Together, public and private funding can end poverty and hunger
23/10/2018
Leveraging private investments to tackle global challenges in food and agriculture
Africa needs its young people to modernize its agricultural sectors
25/10/2018
FAO Director-General stresses the importance of creating jobs in rural areas
Lawmakers’ action key to ending hunger and ensuring healthy and sustainable diets for all
28/10/2018
FAO Director-General urges parliamentarians from all over the world to place food security and nutrition at the top of the political agenda
FAO and the New Development Bank plan to join forces in boost for efforts to achieve 2030 Agenda
31/10/2018
Focus will be on sustainable water use and soil management, and combating desertification
Food prices dip in October
01/11/2018
Abundant export supplies for key commodities more than offset jumping sugar prices
South-South cooperation on agriculture a key ingredient for Zero Hunger
02/11/2018
FAO to open an International Centre of Excellence in Agriculture Innovation and Rural Development in Beijing
UN agencies raise alarm over weakened fight against hunger and malnutrition in Asia and the Pacific
02/11/2018
World's biggest region at serious risk of missing 2030 targets to end all forms of malnutrition-from hunger to obesity
FAO helps Indonesian farmers and fishers recover after earthquake and tsunami
05/11/2018
More than 70 000 people to restore their food production for the long run
Declining international prices to ease food import burden for poorest countries
06/11/2018
FAO's Food Outlook warns of impact of price and currency trends on smallholder incomes
Inequality exacerbates hunger, malnutrition and obesity in Latin America and the Caribbean
07/11/2018
Obesity grows by 3.6 million people every year in the region, while hunger has increased in three countries since 2014, according to a new report from FAO, PAHO, UNICEF and WFP
The world cannot stand by watching Yemen’s human tragedy
06/11/2018
Briefing to UN Permanent Representatives in New York on food security, migration