Rome – With rural hunger at very high levels in Central America’s Dry Corridor region, the time has come to “turn this emergency corridor into a corridor of opportunities,” QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),...

Rome - With the ongoing crisis and pandemic, more and more governments recognize the need to invest in long-term food security and poverty reduction, QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), said today.
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18 October 2022, Washington, DC - To celebrate youth stories and innovations to create a sustainable future of food, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Liaison Office for North America and Planet Forward co-hosted a regional satellite event durin...

14 October 2022, Washington, DC - From east to west, Canada will celebrate World Food Day 2022 with major monuments lit blue in Niagara Falls, Toronto, and Edmonton on October 16.

World Food Day is celebrated every year on 16 October to commemorate the founding of the Food and...

“Stories are what are actually going to change the way people feel about their food systems.”

Rome - Risk factors that could push today’s food access crisis into tomorrow’s food availability crisis are growing, QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), told international policy makers today.

“We must all w...

7 October 2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Arbor Day Foundation, the City of Washington, the United States Forest Service (USFS), the Smithsonian Institute, the Politecnico di Milano, the Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF) and th...

Message from the Director

Although we have made progress towards building a better world, too many people have been left behind. People who are unable to benefit from human development, innovation or economic growth.

In fact, millions of people around the world cannot afford a healthy diet, putting them at high ...

2022 International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste

• Online
• 29 September 2022, from 3:00–4:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Public

Celebrate the 2022 International Day...

Leesburg, Indiana, USA - Today the Director-General attended an event hosted by Kip Tom, former US Ambassador of the US Mission to the UN agencies in Rome, entitled The Role of Innovation in Global Food Systems.  The event was held on a working farm and...