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Bipartisan group of Senators reaffirm US commitment to fighting rising food insecurity ahead of World Food Day
15/10/2021
15 October 2021, Washington, DC – The United States Senate unanimously passed a two-year Senate Resolution, S.Res.414, which designates October 16, 2021 and 2022,...
Bipartisan Representatives commit to strengthening global food security through World Food Day resolution
15/10/2021
15 October 2021, Washington, DC - U.S. Representatives Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.), Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.), and Jim McGovern (D-MA), introduced H.Res. 70...
Maryland, Virginia, District of Columbia Recognize World Food Day
15/10/2021
15 October 2021, Washington, DC
Co-Producers Unite! Indigenous Chefs and Producers of Turtle Island are creating Native Food Connections
14/10/2021
14 October 2021, Washington, DC - In observance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the United States, the first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day in Canada, and World Food Day 2021, FAO North America hosted, “Co-P...
Poets call for empathy and action towards a hunger-free world
14/10/2021
15 October 202, Washington, DC – Ahead of World Food Day, Poetry X Hunger in partnership with FAO North America and the Capital Are...
2021 World Food Day Twitter Chat #WFDChat
11/10/2021
Join FAO North America and Food Tank ahead of World Food Day to discuss how we can transform our agri-food systems from farm to fork to be more sustainable, efficient, inclusive, and resilient for:
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Better Prod...
Food is Medicine, Food is Culture, Food is Reconciliation: Indigenous Youth and Mentors Dedicated to Participating in their own Evolution
06/10/2021
6 October 2021 - As part of the World Food Forum festivities, Indigenous Chef Nephi Craig was joined by a panel of seven Indigenous youth and leaders from North America in a ...
Mainstreaming Biodiversity-Sensitive Agriculture for Sustainable Food Systems
30/09/2021
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...
White House's Global COVID-19 Summit: Pandemic emphasizes need for agri-food systems transformation, FAO Director-General says
23/09/2021
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...
Recipes for Food Security | FAO-Planet Forward Summit Storytelling Fellows
10/09/2021
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.
FAO-Planet Forward Summer Fellows Explore Solutions to End Hunger Sustainably
10/09/2021
10 September 2021, Washington, D.C. - Planet Forward and FAO North America co-hosted an engaging virtual discus...
Check out the September Issue of our newsletter!
08/09/2021
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...
Check out our August Newsletter
09/08/2021
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...
UN Food Systems Pre-Summit: Highlights from Indigenous Peoples’ Engagement
30/07/2021
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...
Meet the Team: Abbe McCarter, Indigenous Peoples’ Liaison Intern
29/07/2021
Abbe McCarter joined our Washington office as an Intern in June of 202...
Scaling up Telecommunications and Digital Technology for Food Security: PlantVillage
14/07/2021
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...