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First-ever FAO Global Conference on Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization opens in Rome
27/09/2023
Mechanization can be a powerful force for change, but only if it is environmentally sustainable and leaves no one behind, especially women and smallholder farmers, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, said today as he opened FAO'...
Director-General QU opens the first-ever Joint Agricultural Machinery and Livestock Exhibition at FAO
26/09/2023
The first of its kind Joint Agricultural Machinery and Livestock Exhibition opened today on the premises of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome on the sidelines of the Global Conference on Sustainable Livestock Transformation (25-27 September) and th...
FAO Regional Organizing Group for the One Country One Priority Product Initiative holds its first meeting in Latin America and the Caribbean
06/09/2023
A dynamic FAO Regional Launch and Workshop on the Implementation of OCOP Country Projects was held in Trinidad and Tobago
01/09/2023
A delegation from the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences visited FAO headquarters to discuss further collaboration
18/07/2023
First Meeting of National Task Force held to facilitate the Implementation of OCOP in Bangladesh
18/07/2023
The first meeting of the National Task Force (NTF) for the implementation of the One Country One Priority Product initiative (OCOP) was organized with over 30 participants and observers. The meeting was co-chaired by Mr Ruhul Amin Talukder, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Govern...
The Plant Production and Protection community holds its third virtual mid-year meeting
13/07/2023
The Plant Production and Protection Division met for its fourth mid-year meeting
12/07/2023
The Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP) held its fourth mid-year meeting in FAO headquarters since the first NSP mid-year meeting held in 2020.
NSP holds its first ever webinar on ethics
11/07/2023
Following the outcomes of the 2022 Employee Satisfaction Survey (E2S), launched on 21 March to over 14,000 employees, the Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP) discussed the results and organized its first ever webinar on ethics as one of the follow-up actions.
Historical aspects of millets were discussed at the second webinar of the International Year of Millets Global Webinar Series
11/07/2023
The second appointment of the International Year of Millets (IYM) Global Webinar Series took place virtually with over 100 participants and provided opportunity to discuss the historical, anthropological, archaeological aspects of millets and their evolving heritage today.