Over 90 participants from 70 UN delegations gathered at the Finnish Mission at the United Nations on 29 October to express their support for the proclamation of an International Year of Plant Health (IYPH) in 2020. The reception, hosted by the Permanent Mission of Finland, was the culmination of a series...

“We committed to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030, it is now our responsibility to act and reverse the trend of increasing hunger and malnutrition that haunts us today,” said Carla Mucavi, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Liaison Office to the UN, during an event to commemorate World...

“The window to curb global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is closing and success depends on a concerted and scaled-up effort. Sustainable agriculture has a critical role to play,” said Carla Mucavi, Director of the FAO Liaison Office to the United Nations in New York, during the Seventy-third Session of...

“Evidence shows that agriculture policies that contribute to closing the gender gap are among the most effective measures to reduce poverty, increase production, improve social welfare, economic growth and community resilience. In other words, closing the gender gap is an effective pathway to sustainable development,” said Carla Mucavi, Director of...

Climate change will have an increasingly adverse impact on many regions of the world, with those in low latitudes being hit the hardest, warned the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at the United Nations General Assembly Second Committee discussion on Macroeconomic policy, trade and development on 11...

There are few issues that need to be addressed as urgently as the alarming trend in food insecurity, said Carla Mucavi, Director of the FAO Liaison Office to the United Nations in New York, during the Seventy-third Session of the United Nations General Assembly Second Committee General Debate at the...

“There is an increasing pressure to produce more food to feed growing and urbanizing populations. But as we produce more, we also wasting more,” said Carla Mucavi, Director of the FAO Liaison Office to the United Nations, at the event on “Waste not: conversations with chefs and policy makers” on...

Rethink food systems to improve access to quality food, says FAO Deputy-Director General Maria Helena Semedo

The UN Decade of Family Farming will assist achievement of the SDGs, says FAO Director-General

African Union and FAO call for greater support to rural women as agents of change to end hunger

EU contributes €70 million to strengthen global partnership against hunger

Director-General calls for building resilient livelihoods as the path to sustainable peace

Graça Machel joins FAO Nobel Peace Laureates Alliance

Major new initiative aims to help low-income countries improve collection of agricultural data

Measuring resilience, using artificial intelligence can flank ground action to fight famine/hunger

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821 million people now hungry and over 150 million children stunted, putting hunger eradication goal at risk

Sharp rise in wheat prices as dry weather scales back output prospects

The 72nd Session of the General Assembly adopted by consensus today a resolution on the implementation of the United Nations Decade on Nutrition (2016-2025) recognizing commitments made by Member States and other actors and exhorting further action to ensure food security and nutrition for all. Among the first Member States to announce...

Sustainable and inclusive food systems are pathways to sustainable development but can only be successful if we advance the 2030 Agenda as a whole, FAO said at the 2018 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) held in New York from 9 to 18 July.  “More sustainable food systems will act as an enabler of a...