Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing remains one of the greatest threats to marine ecosystems as it undermines national and regional efforts to manage fisheries sustainably as well as endeavours to conserve marine biodiversity.

Fisheries resources available to bona fide fis...

Geneva – On the occasion of his trip to Geneva for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the Conference on 

The potato has a long history that began in the Andes of South America about 8 000 years ago when communities of hunters and gatherers began domesticating wild potato plants that grew around Lake Titicaca. Much later, around the 16th century, the Spanish brought the potato to Europe from Peru ...

Vienna – QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has stressed the need to control food safety from the start – from our soil, water, agricultural and post-harvest practices – underscoring the crucial role that nuclear technolo...

Geneva – The United Nations has a key catalytic role to play in leveraging the power of digital technologies, which is of utter importance particularly in rural areas, for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organiz...

Willy Gonçalves clicks his tongue to get the goats to run a little faster up the tall dirt hill in front of his farm. The goats are in search of grass to eat.

Despite its name, Cabo Verde (translated literally to “Green Cape”) isn’t so green at this time of year. The brutal dry season tu...

Transboundary animal diseases, with their ability to spread rapidly across borders and escalate into epidemics, pose serious threats to global economic stability, trade, livelihoods, global  health and food security.

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It has been 75 years since the Europe and Central Asia Members of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) gathered for the first time at FAO’s headquarters in Rome. Last week, once again, they convened to decide on the main priorities and the way forward for the food ...

From bees to earthworms, from coral reefs to rain forests - biodiversity helps to ensure our food diversity and must be key to transforming our food production systems, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations underlined today. As it marked 

Ljubljana/Slovenia - The first International Forum for Action on Sustainable Beekeeping and Pollination, a collaboration between the Foo...

Did you know that there are over 350 crops that play a significant role in food and agriculture globally?

That's in addition to thousands of other crops that play a role in people's food and livelihoods locally.

The greater the diversity of crops and seeds in our global food basket...

Biodiversity and agriculture are inseparable. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, or ‘The Biodiversity Plan’, adopted by countries in 2022, fully recognizes this close interdependence. The Biodiversity Plan sets out a pathway to a world living in harmony with nature by 2050, with ...