New projections highlight potential climate risks to exploitable fish biomass for nearly all regions of the world's ocean, including top producer countries and those with high reliance on aquatic foods, according to a report released today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

An initiative to build resilient agrifood systems grounded in diverse, nutritious, and climate-adapted crops grown in healthy soils, today marked another milestone through a new partnership between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)  and CIMMYT, a CGIAR Research Center. FAO and CIMMYT signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing a Partnership for the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS) initiative.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched the 2024 Rainy Season Input Distribution in Maiduguri, Borno State. This aims to bolster food security and resilience in the region. Held on Monday 10 June 2024 in Dusuman, Jere Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State, the event marks the beginning of distributing essential crop production inputs for Nigeria main agricultural season across Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (BAY) States.

The 36th Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI36) began today at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome. The Committee on Fisheries (COFI) is the largest global gathering of policymakers, experts and partners in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. This week’s (8-12 July) COFI36 meeting will focus on the vital role of fisheries and aquaculture in tackling food insecurity, malnutrition, and poverty, stressing their ability to alleviate hunger, drive sustainable growth, and reverse environmental degradation.

As part of its ongoing efforts to maintain the preparedness  to fight the desert locust, especially in invasion countries, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations conducted a crucial refresher training for locust officers from frontline counties as well as crop protection officers from Plant Protection and Food Safety Directorate. Participants were equipped with principles of desert locust survey and reporting.

The benchmark for world food commodity prices was unchanged in June, as increases in international quotations for vegetable oils, sugar and dairy products offset a decrease in those for cereals, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported Friday. The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of a set of globally-traded food commodities, averaged 120.6 points in June, the same as its revised figure for May. The index is now 2.1 percent lower than its year-earlier value and 24.8 percent below its March 2022 peak.

With the aim to share knowledge to move toward more context-specific, conflict-sensitive, inclusive and accountable Anticipatory Action programming, “Capturing emerging and good practices to improve community engagement in Anticipatory Action”, funded by the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance of the United States Agency for International Development, FAO has developed a compendium of experiences and good practices.

Emerging economies have increasingly driven global agricultural market developments over the last 20 years and are projected to continue to do so over the next decade, but with regional shifts linked to changing demographics and new economic affluence, according to a report released today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Thirty-eight national-level plant health practitioners, including phytosanitary officers and field technicians in Guinea-Bissau, received training to empower them with field-applied or practical scientific approaches and state-of-the-art digital tools designed for timely pest detection, surveillance, diagnostics, and prevention. Reducing the impact of pests on crops helps to foster food security and safe trade.

Alarming new food security projections for Sudan published today show that Sudan is facing a devastating hunger catastrophe on a scale not seen since the Darfur crisis in the early 2000s, warn the heads of three United Nations agencies. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) have been warning of rapid deterioration in conditions for the people of Sudan, particularly children, as food security is torn apart by war that has ravaged the country for more than a year.

The Government of Canada through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities – Anticipatory Action Window contributed USD 1 million to improve the food security, nutrition and resilience to climate shocks by implementing Anticipatory Actions ahead of El Niño-induced drought on vulnerable communities in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, reaching over 6 000 people, of whom 57% women.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) raises alarm over high  risk of famine across the whole Gaza Strip, as long as conflict continues, and sustained and at-scale humanitarian access is restricted, according to a new report published by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) global initiative.

The Government of Canada through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities – Anticipatory Action Window contributed USD 1 222 000 to strengthen the capacity of communities and local governance structures in Somalia and mitigate the impact of El Niño-related floods on the most vulnerable communities, reaching over 45 000 people, of which 49% are women.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have announced the signing of the USD 25 million TRANSFORM project, a key component of the broader multi-partner Johwar Offstream Storage Programme (JOSP). The TRANSFORM project aims to improve food security and resilience in Somalia by rehabilitating critical infrastructure and promoting climate smart agriculture for smallholder farmers in Jowhar.

FAO and USAID have announced the signing of the USD 25 million TRANSFORM project, a key component of the broader multi-partner Johwar Offstream Storage Programme (JOSP). The project aims to improve food security and resilience in Somalia by rehabilitating critical infrastructure and promoting climate smart agriculture for smallholder farmers in Jowhar.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) this week helped 28 countries to unlock $70 million in financing from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to address urban sustainability, groundwater management, biodiversity loss, climate change and land degradation.

A new online dashboard released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) provides an intuitive, user-friendly way to visualize connections between FAO’s projects, resource partners, and thematic areas of work, offering an easy way for the public to understand the large amount of project data published by the Organization.

Ensuring sustainable food production to feed the world’s growing population hinges on fertile soils, resilient crops, enhanced collaboration, and increased investment.  This message and sense of urgency, spearheaded by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and its partners, resonated strongly at the 12th Session of the Global Soil Partnership Plenary Assembly, held from June 3 to 5, 2024, at FAO headquarters in Rome.

Ensuring sustainable food production to feed the world’s growing population hinges on fertile soils, resilient crops, enhanced collaboration, and increased investment. 

This message and sense of urgency, spearheaded by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and its partners, resonated strongly at the 12th Session of the Global Soil Partnership Plenary Assembly, held from June 3 to 5, 2024, at FAO headquarters in Rome.

Through the Africa Phytosanitary Programme (APP), the IPPC is collaborating with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the African Union Commission on Agriculture, and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), to empower NPPOs in 11 APP pilot countries in Africa, including Zambia, to use advanced scientific approaches for proactive pest surveillance and data collection.