Food and Agriculture Organization Press Releases

Upcoming UN hunger report presents a new approach to financing the end of food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms

New York – The 2024 edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report, to be officially launched on July 24, takes a deep dive into salient themes regarding financing for development, in particular financing for food security …

FAO supports Caribbean governments after the impact of Hurricane Beryl

Santiago, Chile – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), as part of the United Nations Emergency Technical Teams (UNETT), is deployed in the areas affected by Hurricane Beryl in the Caribbean to advance rapid needs assessment …

Women master climate resilient farming for bigger and better yields in Nepal

In the Churia region of Nepal, a watershed area with severe land degradation exacerbated by the effects of climate change, Gita Adikhari and her fellow community members are learning more effective and environmentally friendly agricultural techniques …

Investing in rural youth

The growing youth population has enormous potential and is key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Yet, youth face many hurdles in trying to earn a livelihood and access decent jobs in agrifood systems. Young people often face both the …

Working with and for youth to help them become agents for change

Keeping livestock alive during extreme winter in Mongolia through anticipatory action

Discover a groundbreaking innovation that is contributing to protect marine life

Reducing enteric methane emissions from livestock with more sustainable farming practices

Raising awareness on Sand and Dust Storms

Climate risks projected to affect fish biomass around the world's ocean, FAO report says

Rome – New projections highlight potential climate risks to exploitable fish biomass for nearly all regions of the world's ocean, including top producer countries and those with high reliance on aquatic foods, according to a report released today by …

QU Dongyu meets with Chinese authorities on official visit to China

27/06/2024 Rome - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu and H.E. Ismael Nabe, Minister of Planning and International Cooperation of the Republic of Guinea, met today at FAO headquarters in Rome. The Minister was joined at the meeting by Her Excellency Aminata …

Launch of a new Global Partnership for the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils initiative

Rome/Texcoco, Mexico – An initiative to build resilient agrifood systems grounded in diverse, nutritious, and climate-adapted crops grown in healthy soils, today marked another milestone through a new partnership between the Food and Agriculture …

Quenching a thirst for camel milk

Providing wool, milk and income, the two-humped Bactrian camels are vital to Mongolian families living in the harsh Gobi Desert. ©FAO 10/07/2024 In the heart of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, Nergui Ochirbat tends to his herd of 30 Bactrian camels. He has …

Find out how FAO Technical Cooperation Programme projects are helping achieve gender equality

Young farmer discovers the potential of aquaculture in Zambia

Aubrain Lyavuka attended FAO and UNIDO’s OYA programme that trains African youth for jobs in agriculture. He is now seeing great results and growing his fish farm in Ndola, Zambia. ©FAO/Filip Forti 08/07/2024 Thirty-year-old Aubrain Lyavuka was working as …

FAO Food Price Index stable in June

Rome – The benchmark for world food commodity prices was unchanged in June, as increases in international quotations for vegetable oils, sugar and dairy products offset a decrease in those for cereals, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United …

Global meeting focuses on fisheries and aquaculture’s vital role in tackling food insecurity, malnutrition and poverty

Rome – The 36th Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI36) began today at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome. The Committee on Fisheries (COFI) is the largest global gathering of policymakers, …

¿Did you know that aquaculture overtook capture fisheries as a main producer of aquatic animals in 2022?

Improving climate finance for agrifood systems

Unlocking more and better climate finance for agrifood systems Agrifood systems can accelerate climate action providing cross-cutting solutions to food insecurity, poverty and biodiversity loss. Climate finance is key to unlocking this potential, but the …

OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook: Emerging economies will continue driving agricultural markets

Growing rice in Madagascar.