FAO Conference endorses new Strategic Framework to drive agri-food systems transformation
18/06/2021
Members stress the importance of promoting innovation, digital technologies and data
Private sector has a crucial role to play in ensuring healthy diets for all
17/06/2021
B20-G20-FAO Dialogue on Sustainable Food Systems calls on businesses to effect transformative change
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Canada contributes over CAD 22 million for FAO’s COVID-19 response
16/06/2021
FAO to boost the food security and livelihoods of vulnerable communities in Africa and Latin America
Bill Gates highlights role of data and technology to end hunger at FAO Conference
15/06/2021
Philanthropist delivered biennial McDougall Memorial Lecture
Ministers at FAO High Level Round Table agreed innovation is key to tackling hunger and climate change
15/06/2021
Bill Gates delivers the prestigious McDougall Memorial Lecture during biennial FAO Conference
First virtual FAO Conference kicks off with renewed calls for rebuilding a better world
14/06/2021
FAO Members are set to approve the new Strategic Framework for the next decade
New G20 Garden plants green future in Rome’s ancient heart
10/06/2021
FAO and Italy unveil sustainability-themed landscaping project
Child labour in agriculture is on the rise again, with further deterioration foreseen due to COVID-19
10/06/2021
Ahead of World Day Against Child Labour, FAO calls for this scourge to be tackled through the transformation of agri-food systems
UN agencies concerned by looming famine in northern Ethiopia, call for urgent life-saving action to avert it
10/06/2021
Over 350 000 people already face catastrophic conditions in Tigray
Global food trade is buoyant, as are prices
10/06/2021
FAO’s new Food Outlook report tracks the risks associated with rising import bills amid broad upswing in prices
PETER RABBIT™ teams up with the United Nations, FAO and the UN Foundation on global campaign to mobilize more food heroes
10/06/2021
Worldwide initiative aims at supporting healthy agri-food systems
Off-farm activities are a growing share of food-system greenhouse gas emissions
08/06/2021
FAO-led study expands evidence base for insights on how to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions
Food safety is everyone’s business
07/06/2021
FAO and WHO join together to celebrate science and encourage action on World Food Safety Day
Re-imagine, Recreate, Restore! UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration kicks off
04/06/2021
Leaders gathered at virtual global gala calling for #GenerationRestoration
Director-General opens special session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
04/06/2021
The Committee adopts policy recommendations on agroecological and other innovative approaches
Worsening soil pollution threatens future food production and ecosystems, FAO-UNEP
04/06/2021
Joint report reveals soil pollution as one of the world’s major challenges for ecosystem restoration
Global food prices rise at rapid pace in May
03/06/2021
FAO Food Price Index posts fastest monthly increase to reach highest value since September 2011
Climate change fans spread of pests and threatens plants and crops, new FAO study
02/06/2021
Pests destroy up to 40 percent of global crops and cost $220 billion of losses