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24/01/2024

Washington, DC – Last week, Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol and Rein Paulsen, Director of the Office of Emergencies and Resilience of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), visited Washington, DC for high-level meetings with Members of Congress...

23/01/2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ (FAO) Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM‑Monitoring) System relies on enumerators all over the world to collect timely and reliable data multiple ...

16/01/2024

Happy New Year! Here’s to seizing the energy that the new year brings. The FAO North America team looks forward to continuing our work with yo...

05/01/2024

Rome- The benchmark for world food commodity prices declined in December compared to the previous month, with the sharpest drop in international sugar quotations, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 

13/12/2023

Rome/Dubai- Agrifood systems solutions are climate solutions and increased collaboration and finance are needed if the world is to achieve the Paris ...

10/12/2023

Dubai/Rome - Today, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) initiated the process for the development of a groundbreaking global roadmap aimed at eliminating hunger and all forms of malnutrition without exceeding the 1.5°C threshold set by the <...

10/12/2023

Rome/DubaiThe amount of climate finance flowing to agrifood systems is strikingly low and continues to diminish compared to global climate finance flows, a new report

08/12/2023

Rome -  The benchmark for world food commodity prices were broadly stable in November, with lower international cereal quotations offset by higher prices of vegetable oils, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 

01/12/2023

Rome - Agrifood systems are facing an escalating threat from climate change-induced loss and damage, and actions – including increasing financing— must be taken to address their vulnerabilities, according

01/12/2023

FAO at COP28 - The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) hosted by the United Arab Emirates in Dubai will take place between 30 November and 12 December. The Conference is set to be a landmark event in the global effort to combat climate...

28/11/2023

Rome – The global food standards body, the Codex Alimentarius Commission began its annual meeting today with a special ceremony marking its 60th anniversary. The plenary discussions of the Commission’s 

27/11/2023

The 46th session of the Codex Alimentarius Com...