The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has put forward a total of 29 indicators covering eight goals of the July 2014 proposal of the UN General Assembly’s Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to help monitor the post-2015 development agenda. The FAO report, together with indicators put...

A major new UN report has estimated the cost of additional investments needed to eliminate extreme poverty and hunger, the first two major objectives of proposed global sustainable development goals. The study, prepared by FAO, IFAD and WFP, the UN Rome-based agencies, ahead of September’s summit on the post-2015 development agenda, finds...

Countries today agreed on a series of bold measures to overhaul global finance practices and generate investments for tackling a range of economic, social and environmental challenges at the United Nations Third International Conference on Financing for Development, being held in Addis Ababa. The groundbreaking agreement, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, provides a...

FAO-IFAD-WFP report prompts call for investments needed to end global hunger and poverty at Financing for Development conference A major new report by FAO, IFAD and WFP, the UN Rome-based agencies, estimating the cost of investments needed to eliminate hunger and extreme poverty, was the focus of a side event on...

With the right investments in agriculture and social production, zero hunger is possible - FAO Director-General at Addis Conference Highlighting the historic opportunity to become the "Zero Hunger generation", FAO Director-General José Graziano Da Silva called for additional investments in social protection and rural development at theThird International Conference on Financing...