On 14 October 2022 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Mississippi State University (MSU) have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen innovative use of science, data and technology to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The FAO and MSU have a long-standing partnership, which began in 2010 and has been contributing to innovative aquaculture management for over a decade. The new partnership agreement will strengthen actions on One Health and Blue Transformation, specifically in planning and monitoring risk strategies on improved aquaculture biosecurity, and antimicrobial resistance. New areas of cooperation undertaken...

Agriculture and rural development are critical for ensuring food security and eradicating poverty. In this context, farmers’ livelihoods largely depend on agricultural activities, making them highly vulnerable to current challenges affecting agriculture, including climate change and loss of biodiversity. Enhancing the capacities of farmers to adopt innovative approaches to boost agricultural productivity and cope with limited resources is essential to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG1 on eradicating extreme poverty and SDG2 on ending hunger and promoting sustainable agriculture.  

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the University of Freiburg (ALU-FR) have renewed their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), through 2025, to continue to collaborate on areas of common interest focusing on strengthening sustainable forestry, natural resources management and rural development in Central Asia.

Rome, Italy Land degradation and desertification in the Mediterranean is becoming increasingly pronounced due to climate change and increasing pressures on agricultural and forest land. This has negative implications for ecosystem services, climate change mitigation, food security and the social, economic and political sectors. The combination of all of these factors requires concerted efforts toward sustainable land and water management. With...

Rome Italy Building on a common vision for a sustainable and prosperous world, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Luiss Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (Luiss) have embarked on a new partnership through the signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance food and nutrition security, sustainability, inclusiveness, and resilience of agrifood systems as laid out in FAO’s Strategic Framework for a better world where no one is left behind. The new partnership builds from FAO’s and Luiss’ history of cooperation to increase institutional and human capacities of new and mid-level food security professionals....