African Ministers for Agriculture have emphasized the importance of ensuring food security and nutrition, and continuing agricultural activities during the response to COVID-19 – including production, marketing, harvesting, storage and value addition.

Safe food and nutrition are essent...

On Wednesday, 24 June 2020, the Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism held its first virtual annual FMM Resource Partner Consultation. All FMM Resource Partners were represented at the meeting, including: Belgium, Flanders, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.  The Consultati...

The UN Agency also calls for joint coordinated global response to support food and agriculture

Pests, conflict and natural disasters during the COVID-19 pandemic are fatal combinations for our food systems

The 2019 Annual Progress Report provides an overview of the major improvements and transformational changes to the FMM since 2018, in addition to presenting key achievements, challenges and lessons learned thus far in the implementation of the Mechanism over 2019.

On May 20, 2020, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) significantly increased cooperation with the Gulf Cooperation Council countries by virtually signing two groundbreaking partnership agreements

The pandemic will end, the health crisis will ease, but if we don’t protect the livelihoods of millions of people today and the food value chains, we will have to rebuild them tomorrow – at much greater cost, warned FAO Director-General QU Dongyu today at a Congressional Webinar Briefing.

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The project will target 240 000 small scale beneficiaries in vulnerable rural communities and will be executed by the Ministry of Agriculture and FAO

Funded by the Green Climate Fund, the project stands to directly benefit 1.3 million rural people

The 6th High-Level Strategic Dialogue between FAO and France was held from the 5 to 6 of February at FAO Headquarters. Maria Helena Semedo, Assistant Director-General for Climate and Natural Resources, welcomed a French delegation led by Philippe Lacoste, Director of Sustainable Development at...

Funding is a timely boost to FAO’s work with governments to combat the destructive pest

FAO and France Partnership

FAO and Japan’s Fourth Annual Strategic Consultation focuses on mutual support, private sector engagement, and cutting-edge solutions

Partnership adds powerful L-band radar data to FAO’s geospatial toolkit to monitor forests around the world

The latest FAO + Japan report the will be presented during the Annual Strategic Consultation in Tokyo

FAO + Norway: A shared vision for sustainable global development

FMM Resource Partner Consultation Meeting highlights current projects, expanding partnerships and key progress

An innovative partnership for global challenges

Second annual report stresses the need for continued investments and partnerships to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and deliver a resounding impact on the ground

Today the EU, the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) signed a €40 million, five-year...