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FAO, UN Environment deepen their partnership
27/09/2019
27 September 2019, New York - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) renewed their partnership on Thursday, pledging to cooperate in areas of common interest.
The Memorandum of Understanding, which replenishes...
FAO and the Green Climate Fund to work closer together to transform agro-food systems
27/09/2019
27 September 2019, New York – FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu and Yannick Glemarec Executive Director of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) today agreed to work more closely together to transform agro-food systems so that they can become more productive in a sustainable way.
...Healthy foods are clear priority for Small Island Developing States
27/09/2019
27 September 2019, New York - Food security and nutrition must be a priority in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), which can count on FAO's support in taking "better coordinated and more coherent actions" towards that goal, Director-General Qu Dongyu said on Friday.
<...Mobilizing technologies, innovations, knowledge and expertise to reshape food systems
26/09/2019
26 September 2019, New York - Establishing a new business model based on science, data, transparency and accountability and conducive to strong partnerships with the private sector is a major focus for FAO, the Organization's Director-General Qu Dongyu today told private sect...
FAO, UNDP renew partnership to better deliver on the 2030 Agenda
26/09/2019
26 September 2019, New York - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen their partnership towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
The agree...
New FAO Hand-in-Hand Initiative to maximize partnerships for greater impacts
26/09/2019
26 September 2019, New York – Having Member States’ support and buy-in is paramount to FAO successfully rolling out new initiatives, such as the new Hand-in-Hand Initiative, to help accelerate achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals - especially e...
A science-based approach is critical to safeguard biodiversity
26/09/2019
26 September 2019, New York – In talks today FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu and Cristiana Pașca Palmer, the Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, agreed that efforts to safeguard the planet’s biodiversity must be rooted in scien...
Food systems and tropical agriculture are SDG hotspots
25/09/2019
25 September 2019, New York - Transforming food and nutrition systems is central to achieving the 2030 Agenda, FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu said today at a Leaders' Dialogue on the Sustainable...
USAID and FAO agree on need for transparency and accountability
25/09/2019
25 September 2019, New York – FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu and USAID Administrator Mark Green met today in talks that focused on cooperation between the two organizations.
Green said he looked forward to working closely with Qu,...
New pathway for food systems development
25/09/2019
25 September, 2019, New York - Food systems are huge economic, social and environmental drivers of transformational change, FAO Director-General Qu Dongyusaid today. Turning them into accelerators of progress on the SDGs is essential to achieving several core obje...
A Great Green Wall for Cities
21/09/2019
21 September 2019, New York - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Director-General Qu Dongyu today announced the Great Green Wall for Cities initiative that aims to support nature-based solutions to climate change.
The Director-General made the announcement on t...
US Secretary of Agriculture Perdue confident that Director-General Qu can usher new era at FAO
20/09/2019
19 September 2019, Washington DC – United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today congratulated FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu for taking up the position, and during their meeting he also envisaged strengthening collaboration with FAO.
FAO participation at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly
16/09/2019
In September, world leaders gather at United Nations Headquarters to signal how they will boost action to respond to the climate emergency and ensure the health and wellbeing of people, everywhere.
Reducing the Environmental and Social Costs of Food Loss and Waste
12/09/2019
Washington, DC - FAO currently estimates that one-third of all the food produced globally for human consumption is either lost or wasted - approximately 1.3 billion metric tons - per year. Food loss and waste is particularly significant in North America, where every year between 30 and 40 perc...
Food security is national security
12/09/2019
12 September 2019, Washington, DC – FAO North America Director Vimlendra Sharan joined the Food Tank Live Series on “Food Security is National Security” on Capitol Hill.
Sharan joined panelists Josh Protas, Vice President of Public Policy at MAZON; Beth Dunford, Assistant to the Adminis...
5 ways indigenous peoples are helping the world achieve #ZeroHunger
02/09/2019
Indigenous peoples and their food systems can provide answers to food insecurity and climate change
UN Decade on Family Farming: Inclusion, Resilience, and Sustainability
30/07/2019
Following the New York launch of the Decade on Family Farming during the High-Level Political Forum, FAO, IFAD, and the Alliance to End Hunger convened stakeholders from diverse sectors for a discussion on ways to support the implementation of the Global Action Plan for the Decade. ...
Aquaculture Biosecurity – The Invisible Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance
23/07/2019
23 July 2019, Washington, DC – Aquaculture continues to be the world’s fastest-growing food production sector, in which diseases and antimicrobial misuse can occur. To bring attention to the growing global threat of antimicrobial resistance and its economic, security, trade and public health i...
More than 820m people still do not have enough to eat
15/07/2019
Explore the digital version of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019 Report.
Zero Hunger Champion Award presented to Graziano da Silva
15/07/2019
15 July 2019, New York - Today, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva was awarded a Zero Hunger Champion Award by the Alliance to End Hunger in recognition of his “tireless leadership and service in pursuit of a hunger-free w...