7 October 2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Arbor Day Foundation, the City of Washington, the United States Forest Service (USFS), the Smithsonian Institute, the Politecnico di Milano, the Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF) and th...

Message from the Director

Rome – FAO Director-General QU Dongyu met today with Cary Fowler, Special Envoy for Global Food Security with the US Department of State.

The Director-General congratulated the Special Envoy on his appointment to the role in May 2022....

Although we have made progress towards building a better world, too many people have been left behind. People who are unable to benefit from human development, innovation or economic growth.

In fact, millions of people around the world cannot afford a healthy diet, putting them at high ...

2022 International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste

• Online
• 29 September 2022, from 3:00–4:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Public

Celebrate the 2022 International Day...

Leesburg, Indiana, USA - Today the Director-General attended an event hosted by Kip Tom, former US Ambassador of the US Mission to the UN agencies in Rome, entitled The Role of Innovation in Global Food Systems.  The event was held on a working farm and...

Washington, D.C. - FAO Director-General, Dr QU Dongyu, and Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), met and discussed longstanding cooperation between FAO and the United States of America (USA).

The meeting reaffirmed the importance of the stro...

22 September 2022, Washington, DC - QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) visited an award-winning Urban Food Hub model in central Washington, D.C. led by the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). The university is the only ex...

New York – It is time to “show solidarity and passion for humanity” to combat rising hunger and poverty due to a slew of causes that require a globally coordinated response, QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), said...

20/09/2022 New York - Director-General QU Dongyu and Ambassador Michele J. Sison, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs met and discussed the longstanding partnership between FAO and the United States of America. The ...

10/09/2022

All Sri Lankan paddy farmers to receive TSP fertilizer

COLOMBO: The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), announced an additional USD 4...

Rome – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today welcomed an $83 million contribution from the United States of America designed to bolster the agency’s emergency and resil...

$80 million USAID contribution will support FAO projects targeting smallholder resilience, women’s empowerment and environmental sustainability

25 August 2022, Rome – A new $80 million grant from the United States of America is...

Kyiv/Rome – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a new USD 40 million (Canadian Dollar 52 million) Canada-funded project to further address grain storage shortages in Ukraine.

The initiative will allow storage of an additional ...