World Food Day is celebrated annually on 16 October to promote global awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and to highlight the need to ensure healthy diets for all. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) designated 16 October as World Food Day in 1979.

The 50th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will be held from 10 to 13 October 2022. CFS 50 will feature a full-day ministerial segment on coordinating policy responses to the global food crisis – The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022; endorse newly agreed Policy...

The biennial sessions of COFO bring together heads of forest services and other senior government officials to identify emerging policy and technical issues, to seek solutions, and to advise the FAO and others on appropriate action. The 26th Session of the FAO Committee on Forestry (COFO 26) will focus on the...

The webinar titled "The spatial disaggregation of the SDG 6.4.2 (level of water stress) by river basin", which was organized by the FAO Technical Network on Climate Change, showed some results of the spatial disaggregation of the SDG 6.4.2 indicator at river basin level, at global and subnational scale. Water stress has...

How we measure change in water-use efficiency over time is the focus of an FAO e-learning course that aims to help countries track progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 6.4.1 “Change in water use efficiency over time”. The course will allow participants to delve deeper into the main definitions and concepts...