Message from the Director

30 September 2021 - In a high-level webinar co-hosted by FAO North America and the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment of France (INRAE), expert panelists discussed challenges and opportunities for promoting more sustainable agricultural practices...

23 September 2021, Rome/Washington - The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the largest single-year increase in global hunger in decades, emphasizing the need to shift towards more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems, QU Dongyu, Director-Genera...

In the first ever Planet Forward-FAO Storytelling Summer Fellowship, four students will produced stories in any medium at the nexus of food security, agriculture, and nutrition, and work under the guidance of GW’s National Geographic Professor of Science Communication, Lisa Palmer.

10 September 2021, Washington, D.C. - Planet Forward and FAO North America co-hosted an engaging virtual discus...

Greetings,

I hope you had a great summer and are doing well as we head into the busy fall season.

First and foremost, the moment we have been waiting for with the United Nations (UN) Food Systems Summit is here! We are at a key juncture of determin...

Greetings!

“We only have nine harvests left before 2030,” was the urgent call for action from the FAO Director-General QU Dongyu during the Pre-Summit of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit. The proceeding was a strong indication of the scope of the Summit, which will tak...

29 July 2021 - An Indigenous Peoples delegation of nine representatives was present in person for the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit that was held in Rome from 26-28 July 2021. The pre-summit brought together youth, farmers, civil society, researchers, private sector, country delegations, and poli...

13 July 2021 - FAO North America and CSIS Global Food Security Program held a private roundtable webinar featuring keynote speaker Dr. David Hughes, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Global Food Security at Penn State University and PlantVillage founder. Dr. Hughes presented his wo...

We are excited to introduce you to Jocelyn Brown Hall, the new Director of the FAO Liaison Office for North America. A U.S. citizen, Brown Hall joins FAO North America from her previous position as the FAO Representative for Ghana and the Deputy Regional Representative of FAO’s Regional Office...

In recognition of 2021 World Food Day and in keeping with the power of poetry to move hearts and minds towards needed anti-hunger actions, Poetry X Hunger and its partners announce an important Call for Poetry Submissions.  Collaborators include the Food and Agriculture Organizat...

11 June 2021, Washington, D.C. - “Malnutrition contributes to close to 3 million childhood deaths under the age of 5 every year,” said Eric Mitchell, Executive Director of the Alliance to End Hunger. “On the other hand, investing in nutrition, particularly within the first 1000 days between th...