Director-General says joining the Better Than Cash Alliance is part of stimulating more innovation and financial inclusion for smallholders

FAO calls for bold, urgent action to support the world’s most vulnerable

The shared priority is to translate the common vision into a One Health Global Action Plan

FSNAU-FEWS NET report indicates large-scale food and nutrition insecurity due to multiple threats

A world without hunger is possible, but this cannot be achieved in isolation. The FAO Liaison Office with the United Nations in New York has kicked off the year by strengthening synergies and collaboration with Member States, the United Nations (UN) and its Funds, Programmes and Specialized Agencies. For FAO, 2020...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) have a long standing partnership and have strengthened collaboration in light of the current increase in humanitarian needs, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Desert Locust upsurge. Guangzhou...

Humanitarian crisis continues to exert a terrible toll on children, warn FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO

Members of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) endorsed the first-ever Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition aiming to support countries and others in their efforts to eradicate all forms of hunger and malnutrition by utilizing a comprehensive food systems approach. The endorsement took place during the CFS 47th Session (8-11 February...

Throughout the world, hundreds of varieties of pulses are grown – from dried beans, such as kidney beans, lima beans, butter beans and broad beans, to chickpeas, cowpeas, black-eyed peas and pigeon peas. Although they vary in flavour, in colour, in size, their high nutritional value and important role in...

The 47th meeting of the Committee on World Food Security runs from 8-11 February

Global food prices rose in January for the eighth consecutive month, led by cereals, vegetable oils and sugar, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). FAO's Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of commonly-traded food commodities and was released today, averaged 113.3...

The 34th session will take place from 1 to 5 February. The Committee on Fisheries is a subsidiary body of the FAO Council and was established by the FAO Conference in 1965.

OpEd by Guangzhou QU, Director, FAO New York. At a critical juncture when the world is striving to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 amid the haunting COVID-19 pandemic, I assumed my duty as Director of the FAO Liaison Office in New York. I took office on 1 January 2021,...

The upcoming United Nations (UN) Food System Summit in New York and the Pre-Summit in Rome were the focus of the first meeting of the Group of Friends of Food Security and Nutrition in 2021. The event, hosted by the Permanent Mission of Italy to the UN, and co-organized with...

Nairobi/New York/Rome, 19 January 2021 - A locust fighting force assembled by countries in East Africa to combat an invasion of the crop-devouring pest is at risk of seeing its activities grind to a halt as funding to sustain its operations dries up, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned...

 The FAO Director-General QU Dongyu today held a meeting with all senior managers of the UN agency, including FAO representatives (FAORs) to about 130 countries, to present the Organization’s priorities for 2021. Opening the fourth meeting of its kind, with almost 200 participants, Qu highlighted that all the strategic decisions, transformative...

QU Dongyu joined President Macron and the Prince of Wales at the One Planet Summit.

Updated regularly, this is FAO's website on the ways the pandemic is affecting food and agriculture systems around the world.

Happy holidays and a prosperous 2021!

Transformative change at the service of allby QU Dongyu, FAO Director-GeneralOnly a few weeks after assuming FAO’s leadership in 2019, I met the UN Secretary-General and promised that FAO will strengthen its role within the UN System as a dynamic member, trusted partner and professional knowledge organization. FAO has kept...