FAO hosts global event that underscores the contribution pulses make to food security, healthy diets and the environment.

Coarse grain production on track to hit an all-time high, pushing up overall supply and trade prospects

New FAOSTAT domain focuses on statistics from dietary data

QU Dongyu addresses African leaders at the Italian Senate

At the GFFA in Berlin, Chief Economist Máximo Torero urges unity to end hunger and support policy and monitoring tools already in place

COFI Sub-Committee on Fisheries Management is also set to discuss improvements in the methodology to assess the state and health of the world’s marine fisheries stocks

Benchmark measure of world food commodity prices ends 2023 about 10 percent below its year-earlier level.

UN agency issues call for urgent action in wake of Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report

The data shows urgent need for improvement, as well as the potential for shared learnings

From the FAO Office for Europe and Central Asia

From a world leaders’ declaration on food and agriculture to a new FAO global roadmap to eradicate hunger while keeping 1.5°C alive, COP28 witnessed momentum to transform agrifood systems

From the FAO Regional Office for Near East and North Africa

From FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Acute hunger is set to soar as emergency agriculture support remains massively underfunded  

New report offers uplifting cases of successful restoration projects amid the climate crisis

Stronger focus on fisheries management between 2024 and 2028 in response to climate change 

The transformation of agrifood systems - a unique opportunity to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss and food insecurity - is under threat from reduced funding

The roadmap envisions transforming agrifood systems from a net emitter to a carbon sink based on the principle of a just transition

Observance helps highlight the potato’s importance for global agriculture, economic development, food security and nutrition

International cereal quotations dip, vegetable oil prices rise, and record grains harvest is expected in the year ahead.