QU Dongyu participated in a high-level event in Rome to highlight the need for financing to transform agrifood systems

Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol urges game-changing solutions to break the vicious loop between climate crisis, conflict and hunger 

Initiatives in Africa, Latin America, the Mediterranean and Southeast Asia cited as best practices for reversing ecosystems degradation

Interview with FAO Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol on Gaza and other global emergencies including Ukraine and Sudan

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

FAO will lead 48 projects and three programs addressing challenges at the intersection of environment, agriculture, forestry, and marine/freshwater resources

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 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 Office for Europe and Central Asia

From the FAO Regional Office for Near East and North Africa

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

From FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

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