8 April 2019, Rome--- FAO Director-General, José Graziano da Silva, in an opening address today to the organization's executive, the Council, has stressed that FAO will focus over the next two years on promoting nutrition-sensitive food systems and innovation in agriculture.

The Council's current session ends on Friday and besides the main agenda, also includes a series of side events, focused on topics such as ways forward for biodiversity for food and agriculture, including a presentation of the findings of the first report on the state of biodiversity for food and agriculture; and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the context of the One Health approach.