The FAO Conference and the UNESCO Executive Board first signed a framework agreement in 1949....
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Hanoi, Viet Nam. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), with support from FAO, other United Nations (UN) Agencies in Viet Nam, and international and national development partners, convenes the First National Food Systems Summit Dialogue in Hanoi. The...
The new version of the Global Agro-Ecological Zones (GAEZ v4) database provides the agronomic backbone for various applications including the quantification of land productivity as well as several key information for agricultural and rural investment.
The launch of GAEZ v4 will...
Soil pollution may be invisible to the human eye, but it limits a soil's capacity to provide essential ecosystem services and the production of safe and nutritious food.
In the framework of the World Environment Day and the launch of the...
FAO is the designated United Nations custodian agency for 21 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators and a contributing agency for another five – covering almost 10% of the entire SDG global indicator framework. This expanded role reflects the Organization’s significant...
Call for action: ending child labour in agriculture with the help of agricultural stakeholders
30 May 2021
30 May 2021
2021 is the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly. The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, pledges to intensify efforts for ending child...
