Better knowledge and access to food can help people make wise choices for healthy diets, but it can also help protect the environment, support family and smallholder farmers and improve other parts of the supply chain.

The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a health emergency. It could lead to a global food crisis with long-term impacts on vulnerable people.

Over 27 million Congolese – one in three people - now critically hungry.

The dialogue, the third in a series organized by FAO and supported by AECID, offered parliamentarians a forum to share their experiences in helping their countries to guarantee food security, nutrition and the right to food during the containment and recovery phases of the pandemic.

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Call for urgent and at-scale action to avert rising hunger and risk of famine.

Water is a major input in the provision of food and is also required to meet personal and household needs. Check out this study that examines the right to water for food and agriculture.

New FAO report finds agricultural losses from natural hazards continue to soar, inflicting economic damage and undermining nutrition.

Women have more difficulties in accessing productive resources, employment opportunities and social protection, being more exposed to more vulnerabilities and inequalities.