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FAO chief briefs the United Nations Security Council on measures to break the vicious cycle between conflict and hunger
21/04/2020
21 April 2020, Rome/New York - With conflicts, extreme weather, desert locusts, economic shocks and now COVID-19, likely to push more people into acute food insecurity, coherent actions are needed among humanitarian, development and peace actors, to addre
FAO Director-General: In times of the COVID-19 pandemic, the poorest and the most vulnerable will be hit the hardest.
21/04/2020
Watch the FAO Director-General's video message on the Global Report on Food Crises 2020.
COVID-19: FAO and African Union commit to safeguarding food security amid crisis
16/04/2020
16 April 2020, Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the African Union (AU) and international partners today described the food and agriculture system as "an essential service that must continue to operate during period
FAO and Canada discuss ways to address COVID-19 impacts on agriculture and achieve progress towards the SDGs
15/04/2020
15 April 2020, Rome/Ottawa - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu and Canada’s Minister of International Development Karina Gould discussed ways to meet emergency and development needs in agriculture during the COVID-19 crisis, and beyond, at a virtual meeting
Coronavirus could worsen hunger in the developing world
10/04/2020
In this opinion article, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu discusses the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security of the world's most vulnerable communities, and what we can do to address them. Read the full story on the World Economic Forum website
Director-General discuss responses to COVID-19 challenges with all FAO Country Representatives
09/04/2020
9 April 2020, Rome – Director-General QU Dongyu today participated in a virtual meeting that for the first time in FAO’s history gathered all the organization’s Country Representatives (FAORs) around the world. The teleconference was set up with the objec
FAO Director-General calls for a collective and collaborative approach to face COVID-19
08/04/2020
8 April 2020, Rome – The COVID-19 pandemic “affects everyone in every country, rich and poor” and tackling it requires planning ahead to anticipate the problems it causes as well as robust international cooperation, FAO Director-General (DG) QU Dongyu sai
Coping with lockdown: Tips from space
06/04/2020
6 April 2020, Rome - Italy’s celebrated Paolo Nespoli spent his 63rd birthday sharing with FAO’s global staff his experience of confinement as a career astronaut. Hundreds tuned in from home isolation to watch him expound on the analogy between spacecraft
COVID-19: Joint Statement by FAO, WHO and WTO Directors-General
31/03/2020
Joint Statement by QU Dongyu, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Roberto Azevedo, Directors-General of FAO, WHO and WTO.
World Economic Forum: FAO Director-General speaks against food trade restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic
30/03/2020
30 March 2020, Rome – FAO Director-General QU Dongyu, today invited the World Economic Forum (WEF) to work with the UN agency in protecting and strengthening food supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Director-General noted that supermarket she
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