FAO in Sri Lanka

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14 March 2022
Over the past two years, COVID-19 has presented many challenges to global food security. Today, what is happening in Russia and Ukraine adds another significant challenge. Russia and Ukraine play a substantial role in the global food production and supply. Russia is the world’s largest exporter of wheat, and Ukraine...
10 March 2022
Dhaka/Rome – Ministers and high-level delegates from across Asia and the Pacific met today with a focus on improving nutrition, lives and livelihoods in the wake of the global pandemic, while taking aim at ongoing climate and severe weather-related threats, and tackling diseases and pests that are affecting crops and livestock...
09 March 2022
Malé, Maldives -  The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) QU Dongyu called on the Vice President of the Republic of Maldives, Faisal Naseem. The Director-General extended support to Small Island Developing States (SIDS), including Maldives, to recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
08 March 2022
Malé, Maldives – The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu arrived in Maldives yesterday on an official two-day visit to the Maldives, to reaffirm support and cooperation to Small Island Developing States (SIDS), such as the Maldives, to drive agrifood systems transformation...
07 March 2022
Malé, Maldives/Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has placed Small Island Developing States (SIDS) at the centre of its work to transform agrifood systems,  because of their vulnerability to the climate crisis and other shocks and their importance in the protection of marine biodiversity.