Rome/New York/Washington, D.C. - 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 se...

Mogadishu - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have launched a flagship project to support Somalia's r...

Rome - The COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and conflicts have created significant food security challenges worldwide in the past years. Currently, millions of people around the world need urgent support in over 45 countries...

Washington, DC - More than ten years ago, the UN FAO first examined the status of women in agriculture worldwide, illuminating the gender gap in productivity and explaining the impacts—on women’s agricultural output, national productivity, and global food security—of closing this gap. To...

Ottawa, Canada - Globally, agrifood systems are a significant source of income for women, with 36 percent of working women around the world employed in agrifood systems. The new Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) report ‘The Status of Women in Agrifood Systems’ ...

Washington, DC - In a seminal report released last week, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has provided a comprehensive picture of the status of women working across agrifood systems. Released last week, the 

Rome- Tackling gender inequalities in agrifood systems and empowering women reduces hunger, boosts the economy, and reinforces resilience to shocks like climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, reveals a new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization o...

Join the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for the high-level global launch and regional presentations of the seminal report on the critical roles women play in global agrifood systems.  

The FAO Report on the Status ...

5 April 2023, Washington, DC – Following the historic - first of its kind in 50 years - United Nations Water Conference in New York, Li Lifeng Director of the Land and Water Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and his Deputy, Sasha KooOshima, arrived to Washington...

Rome - Around 1.23 billion people were employed in the world’s agrifood systems in 2019, and more than three times that figure, or almost half the world’s population, live in households linked to agrifood systems, according to new 

Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is scaling its operations to help earthquake-hit rural communities in Türkiye and the Syrian Arab Republic sustain and recover basic food production, while assessing agricultural damage and monitoring th...

New York/Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) called for innovative drought financing mechanisms to help deal with the rising frequency and severity of drought events amid intensifying climate extremes that often damage fragile communities ...

Rome – Ahead of the UN 2023 Water Conference  and following the 2nd WASAG (The Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture) International Forum, the Director of the Land and Water Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Li Lifeng, talks about ...