Rome/New York/Geneva – Over 122 million more people are facing hunger in the world since 2019 due to the pandemic and repeated weather shocks and conflicts, including the war in Ukraine, according to the latest 

Rome – After re-electing QU Dongyu of China for a second term as Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Na...

Rome - The best ways of tackling the problem of water scarcity and shortages, as well as frequent, widespread and catastrophic floods, issues that affect more than 5 billion people worldwide, took centre stage at the 43rd session of the FAO Ministerial Conference this wee...

Rome – The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, re-elected o...

Rome – FAO Director-General QU Dongyu and Alexis Taylor, Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), met and discussed the longstanding partnership between FAO and the United States of America, on the m...

Rome - The 43rd session of the FAO Conference (July 1-7) begins this Saturday at the Organization’s headquarters in Rome and will oversee the election...

Rome -  Building on growing momentum to tackle environmental problems by addressing the ways in which our food and fiber are produced, the Global Environment Facility has approved 26 projects led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

“To ...

Rome/Khartoum – The current crisis in Sudan has worsened an already dire food insecurity situation, with hunger expected to increase substantially across the country as it heads into the typical lean season period from June to September. 

To scale up ...

Valparaíso- The Second Global Parliamentary Summit against Hunger and Malnutrition closed on Friday in Chile with a new Glob...

Rome - The world food import bill is forecast to reach a new record this year, though it is predicted to grow at a much slower pace compared to last year, as rising world prices, driven by higher quotations for fruits, vegetables, sugar and dairy produc...

Rome - With agriculture accounting for the bulk of child labour globally and the numbers involved growing, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is stepping up its work with partners on eliminating child labour in key sectors including cocoa, cotton, coffee. The lat...

The ocean is key to global food security, the livelihoods of over 600 million people, and essential to transforming agrifood systems, according to Manuel Barange, Director of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

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Washington, DC – Deputy Director General Beth Bechdol and Director of the Office of Emergencies and Resilience Rein Paulsen of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) were in Washington, DC during the week of May 29 for strategic meetings with high-le...