26 September 2019, New York - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen their partnership towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

The agree...

26 September 2019, New York – In talks today FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu and Cristiana Pașca Palmer, the Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, agreed that efforts to safeguard the planet’s biodiversity must be rooted in scien...

26 September 2019, New York – Having Member States’ support and buy-in is paramount to FAO successfully rolling out new initiatives, such as the new Hand-in-Hand Initiative, to help accelerate achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals - especially e...

26 September 2019, New York - Establishing a new business model based on science, data, transparency and accountability and conducive to strong partnerships with the private sector is a major focus for FAO, the Organization's Director-General Qu Dongyu today told private sect...

25 September 2019, New York - Transforming food and nutrition systems is central to achieving the 2030 Agenda, FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu said today at a Leaders' Dialogue on the Sustainable...

25 September 2019, New York – FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu and USAID Administrator Mark Green met today in talks that focused on cooperation between the two organizations.

Green said he looked forward to working closely with Qu,...

25 September, 2019, New York - Food systems are huge economic, social and environmental drivers of transformational change, FAO Director-General Qu Dongyusaid  today. Turning them into accelerators of progress on the SDGs is essential to achieving several core obje...

21 September 2019, New York - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Director-General Qu Dongyu today announced the Great Green Wall for Cities initiative that aims to support nature-based solutions to climate change.

The Director-General made the announcement on t...

19 September 2019, Washington DC – United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today congratulated FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu for taking up the position, and during their meeting he also envisaged strengthening collaboration with FAO.

12 September 2019, Washington, DC – FAO North America Director Vimlendra Sharan joined the Food Tank Live Series on “Food Security is National Security” on Capitol Hill.

Sharan joined panelists Josh Protas, Vice President of Public Policy at MAZON; Beth Dunford, Assistant to the Adminis...

Washington, DC - FAO currently estimates that one-third of all the food produced globally for human consumption is either lost or wasted - approximately 1.3 billion metric tons - per year. Food loss and waste is particularly significant in North America, where every year between 30 and 40 perc...

Indigenous peoples and their food systems can provide answers to food insecurity and climate change

Following the New York launch of the Decade on Family Farming during the High-Level Political Forum, FAO, IFAD, and the Alliance to End Hunger convened stakeholders from diverse sectors for a discussion on ways to support the implementation of the Global Action Plan for the Decade. ...

23 July 2019, Washington, DC – Aquaculture continues to be the world’s fastest-growing food production sector, in which diseases and antimicrobial misuse can occur. To bring attention to the growing global threat of antimicrobial resistance and its economic, security, trade and public health i...

15 July 2019, New York - Today, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva was awarded a Zero Hunger Champion Award by the Alliance to End Hunger in recognition of his “tireless leadership and service in pursuit of a hunger-free w...

Explore the digital version of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019 Report. 

Dear Readers,

June has been an eventful month. It started with us hosting a Twitter chat on the inaugural World Food Safety Day, reaching over 3.3 million people. Later in the month, we discussed different approaches to define and measure progress towards sustainable agriculture. We w...

Hello everyone, greetings from Abram Bicksler and Alessandra Guidotti, from the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations’ (FAO) agroecology and ecosystem services team based in Rome. FAO, a specialized agency of the United Nations, has been committed to achieve food security for all...

Calling all Poets living in Washington, DC, and surrounding counties!

In recognition of the power of poetry to move hearts and minds, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ (FAO) Liaison Office for North America announces the second annual, World Food Day (WFD) Poe...