Focusing on the Past Will Not Feed the Future

By U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue

World Food Day is about more than the founding of t...

19-20 September, Washington, DC – FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu met with FAO staff and senior government and multilateral organizations officials, including U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, during his inaugural visit to Washington, DC, in advance of the 74^th UN General A...

 2 October 2019, Chicago, Illinois - The North America Landscape Finance Forum (NALFF) explored integrated landscape investment models in the U.S. and Canada, where some of the most innovative initiatives are taking place. The goals of the full-day forum was to be...

27 September 2019, New York - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) renewed their partnership on Thursday, pledging to cooperate in areas of common interest.

The Memorandum of Understanding, which replenishes...

27 September 2019, New York – FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu and Yannick Glemarec Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) today agreed to work more closely together to transform agro-food systems so that they can become more productive in a sustainable way.

27 September 2019, New York - Food security and nutrition must be a priority in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), which can count on FAO's support in taking "better coordinated and more coherent actions" towards that goal, Director-General Qu Dongyu said on Friday.

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 – 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 – 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 - 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