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In 2023, FAO will require $1.9 billion to reach 48 million people with life-saving and livelihood assistance.
01/12/2022
Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2023 is seeking $1.9 billion to save the lives and livelihoods of some of the most severely acute food insecure people, as acute food insecurity continues to escalate globally.
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Invitation to Indigenous Women to advance their research for Indigenous Women, Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems, and climate action: Deadline December 13
30/11/2022
Apply until 13 December 2022
Thompson Rivers University – Knowledge Maker...
Rome Water Dialogue highlights urgency of sustainably managing planet’s stressed water resources. 35 percent more freshwater needed to feed growing population by 2050.
29/11/2022
Rome - Unless we find ways of sustainably managing the earth’s stressed water resources, we will need over a third more water to produce the extra food required for the planet’s growing population by mid-century. That was the message from the
North American Indigenous Peoples’ Highlights from the 2022 World Food Forum
29/11/2022
Rome/ Washingon, DC - Under the 2022 theme, “Healthy Diets, Healthy Planet”, the World Food Forum (WFF) took place from 17 to 21 October at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, Italy. In the framework of the World Food Forum 2022, a del...
New data tool explores where the “food dollar” goes
28/11/2022
Rome - Knowing how value is distributed through the world’s agrifood systems would make it a lot easier to optimize and transform them.
To contribute to the evidence base required, the Food and Agriculture Organization of th...
Antimicrobial resistance: Now is the time for collective action: Quadripartite launches new Antimicrobial Resistance Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Platform to help tackle common threat to human and animal health and ecosystems
18/11/2022
Rome/Nairobi/Geneva /Paris – The Antimicrobial Resistance Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Platform was launched today to ensure the growi...
New data to measure cropland nutrient budgets
15/11/2022
FAOSTAT, the International Fertilizer Association and leading research universities offer new reference point for assessing agricultural, environment and sustainability priorities
Rome - How much fertilizer is...
FAO and Quebec ramp up climate adaptation efforts in Côte d’Ivoire, Haiti, and Senegal
14/11/2022
Rome – A second phase of a global project that helps three countries particularly vulnerable to climate change adapt to improve their food security and nutrition was launched on the sidelines of the 27th United Nations Climate Change Co...
Alarming signs as the global food import bill set to rise to nearly US$2 trillion due to higher prices
11/11/2022
Rome – The world food import bill is estimated to rise to US$1.94 trillion in 2022, higher than previously expected, according to a new report released today ...
The global fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing reaches a new milestone
07/11/2022
Rome – Global action to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing has intensified as 100 States have now committed to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s
Benchmark for world food prices was broadly steady in October
04/11/2022
Rome – The benchmark for world food commodity prices was broadly stable in October, with rising cereal prices more than offset by declines in quotations for o...
Op-Ed: A Super-Powered Ally to Solve the Hunger, Poverty, and Climate Crises
03/11/2022
By Paul Newnham and Dr. Ismahane Elouafi
Cultivated since the dawn of agriculture and cited in ancient works of literature. Small in size, yet nourishing to both our bodies and the earth. They are the superfood we need to counter the latest food price crisis, a p...
The State of Food and Agriculture 2022: Leveraging automation to transform agrifood systems
02/11/2022
Flagship FAO report addresses concerns over job losses and inequality
02/11/2022
Rome - Agricultural automation, which includes anything from tractors to artificial intelligence, can play an important role in making food production more efficie...
New $250 million USAID grant will boost FAO’s efforts to strengthen global health security and agrifood systems
26/10/2022
Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are scaling up efforts to strengthen global animal food security with the aim of protecting human lives and livelihoods while improving ...
Slow Food and FAO Celebrate World Food Day with a Bean Supper
25/10/2022
24 October 2022, Washington, DC – To mark World Food Day, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Liaison Office for North America partnered with Slow Food USA and Slow Food DC to host a bean supper at Equinox Restaurant in Washington, DC....