FAO Council begins, Members discuss the Organization’s Programme of Work and Budget 2024-25
24/04/2023
Financing for Development is key to fight hunger, accelerating progress across the Sustainable Development Goals
20/04/2023
Together with its partners, FAO stands ready to leverage and foster new approaches and strategies to elevate the role of financing for development to mitigate and prevent food crises and promote agrifood systems transformation. These strategies must be inclusive, environmentally sustainab...
Food insecurity and malnutrition in West and Central Africa at 10-year high as crisis spreads to coastal countries
18/04/2023
Acute food insecurity is on track to reach a 10-year high in West and Central Africa by June of this year - a new study shows - with a worrying expansion of food insecurity into coastal countries, and catastrophic levels of hunger hitting conflict-affected areas of Burkina Faso and Mali where ...
Boosting Small Island Developing States’ ability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
18/04/2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today announced the launch of a new $5 million project supported by the FAO-China South-South Cooperation (SSC) Program...
Attention to livelihoods in emergencies is the most effective and dignified response that we can possibly mount: FAO Emergencies Chief
17/04/2023
The COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and conflicts have created significant food security challenges worldwide in the past years. Currently, millions of people around the world need urgent support in over 45 countries.
But just providin...
To end hunger and build a more resilient future, empowering women in agrifood systems is key
13/04/2023
Tackling gender inequalities and empowering women across the entire agrifood system – from production to distribution and consumption – is central to reducing hunger, boosting economic development and strengthening resilience to climate and market shocks. This was the driving message from the ...
Women’s equality in agrifood systems could boost the global economy by $1 trillion, reduce food insecurity by 45 million: new FAO report
13/04/2023
Tackling gender inequalities in agrifood systems and empowering women reduces hunger, boosts the economy, and reinforces resilience to shocks like climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, reveals a new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
...Leveraging science to minimize policy trade-offs and maximize synergies for enhanced food security
12/04/2023
Today saw the Briefing to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on science-based evidence in support of sustainable solutions, convened by UNGA President Csaba K...
Benchmark for world food commodity prices fall in March for the twelfth month in a row
07/04/2023
Almost half the world’s population lives in households linked to agrifood systems
05/04/2023
Around 1.23 billion people were employed in the world’s agrifood systems in 2019, and more than three times that figure, or almost half the world’s population, live in households linked to agrifood systems, according to new
International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture closes with many concrete results
31/03/2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today marked the close of a global year-long campaign focused on small-scale artisanal fishers, fishfarmers and fishworkers, underlining the need to keep the momentum going.
With over ...
Türkiye earthquakes: initial assessment indicates losses of more than 20 percent in food production
31/03/2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is scaling its operations to help earthquake-hit rural communities in Türkiye and the Syrian Arab Republic sustain and recover basic food production, while assessing agricultural damage and monitoring the longer-term and indirec...
On first-ever International Day of Zero Waste, FAO puts the spotlight on bioeconomy
30/03/2023
We must use existing biological resources more efficiently, and waste less, instead of relying on finite fossil-based resources”, the Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, told a high-level event held at the UN General Assembly to commemorate...
Iraq: Safety, credit and opportunities are all key for displaced farmers to return home
28/03/2023
Quadripartite call to action for One Health for a safer world
27/03/2023
Recent international health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic, mpox, Ebola outbreaks, and continued threats of other zoonotic diseases, food safety, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) challenges, as well as ecosystem degradation and climate change clearly demonstrate the need for resilient...
Seeds in Space: ‘Cosmic crops’ for food security and climate change adaptation
27/03/2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) held an event in Vienna today to mark the imminent return to Earth of seeds that were sent into space four months ago.
The ground-breaking experiment aims to develop new cr...
FAO welcomes the outcomes of UN 2023 Water Conference
24/03/2023
On the last day of the UN 2023 Water Conference, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) welcomed the outcomes of the three-day meeting and reaffirmed its commitment to actively follow up agreed actions in the new
UN 2023 Water Conference: FAO calls for responsive and innovative drought financing mechanisms
23/03/2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) called for innovative drought financing mechanisms to help deal with the rising frequency and severity of drought events amid intensifying climate extremes that often damage fragile communities the most.
"The lack of adequ...
Water scarcity means less water for agriculture production which in turn means less food available, threatening food security and nutrition
21/03/2023
Ahead of the UN 2023 Water Conference and following the 2nd WASAG (The Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture) International Forum, the Director of the Land and Water Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Li Lifeng, talks about one of the most pressing ...
The world is in a water crisis. Agriculture can lead the way out of it
21/03/2023
The world isn’t heading for a water crisis. It’s already in one. In many places, water withdrawals exceed recharge rates. Climate change is causing droughts and floods all over the globe. Water bodies that support vital biodiversity and production of food, both aquatic and on land, are comprom...