Youth champions empowered to foster agri-entrepreneurship. 26 June 2018, Addis Ababa - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the East African Community (EAC) join hands to empower the youth in agro-entrepreneurship. The ultimate goal of the partnership between the two agencies is to create jobs for the...

To help policy makers and other development actors accelerate progress towards global promises to end poverty and hunger, FAO has released a set of 20 inter-connected actions designed to show the impact sustainable agriculture can have on tackling the world's greatest challenges.

The number of child labourers in agriculture worldwide has increased by more than 10 percent since 2012 driven in part by violent conflicts and disasters.

The side-event aims to share successful experience on hunger and poverty eradication from the KEPs countries, including how multi-sectoral approaches and integrated policies can accelerate progress towards the achievement of these SDGs. It also seeks to engage member countries in a discussion on the strategies and policies needed as well...

Many West and Central African countries are fortunate to have abundant water resources. However, these resources are unevenly distributed across the region and are mostly untapped. Less than three percent of the region’s arable land benefits from some form of strategic water management. At the same time, many countries face...