A wide view of the dialogues of the Summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda: Ending poverty and hunger. 25 September 2015, New York - Agriculture and rural development need a major boost if we want to achieve the 2030 globally-agreed …
During the lean season, families in Wurotorobe, Burkina Faso, struggle to have at least one meal per day, but often they only calm the worst hunger. The poor diet makes small children extremely vulnerable to epidemics and disease. 26 September 2015, New …
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva. 25 September 2015, New York - Food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture are key to achieving the entire set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva …
FAO’s South-South Cooperation promotes collaboration and knowledge sharing between Chinese experts and Ugandan farmers. 25 September 2015, Rome - FAO, China and Uganda have signed a two year agreement worth almost $2.5 million to support small-scale …
In Syria farmers and livestock keepers are often left with no other option than to abandon their fields and animals. 24 September 2015, Rome - The millions of people who are being forced to flee from war, poverty and other hardships are a tragic reminder …
El Salvador is one of the countries in Central America most affected by this year's El Niño- related dry weather, which caused strong reductions in its maize harvest. 14 September 2015, Rome – Prolonged dry weather associated with the El Niño …
According to the Durban Declaration, sustainably managed forests hold vast potential to play a decisive role in ending hunger, improving livelihoods and combating climate change. 11 September 2015, Durban - The world's forests must be recognized as …
Gertrude Kabusimbi Kenyangi of Uganda received today the 2015 Wangari Maathai ‘Forest Champions’ Award. 10 September 2015, Durban - Ugandan forestry activist Gertrude Kabusimbi Kenyangi was today awarded the 2015 Wangari Maathai ‘Forest Champions' …
An Afghan farmer and his son bring in the wheat harvest. 10 September 2015, Kabul - The number of people in Afghanistan resorting to selling land or turning to friends or family for help because of food insecurity has doubled in the last year, according to …
Global wheat production for 2015 is now forecast at 728 million tonnes, 5 million more than previously foreseen. 10 September 2015, Rome -International food commodity prices continued to decline in August as ample supplies, a slump in energy prices and …
An old-growth tree in the Nkula Forest, Democratic Republic of Congo. 7 September 2015, Durban/Rome - The world's forests continue to shrink as populations increase and forest land is converted to agriculture and other uses, but over the past 25 years …
FAO Director-General, José Graziano da Silva, with ActionAid CEO, Adriano Campolina, during a previous encounter. 6 September 2015, Durban, South Africa – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and ActionAid International, a …
Cassava, one of Cameroon's principal food crops. 4 September 2015, Yaoundé - Cameroon and FAO today signed two agreements: one creating a $20 million, five-year Partnership Programme aimed at promoting agricultural development in the Central African …
A family looking out from their partially-submerged house in the Irrawaddy delta region of Myanmar outside Pathein, August 20, 2015 3 September 2015, Yangon -- Heavy storms, floods and landslides across nearly all provinces in Myanmar have dealt a major …
Mastercard’s Walt Macnee and FAO’s José Graziano da Silva at today’s signing event 2 September 2015, Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and MasterCard are joining forces to create an innovative new alliance against …
A farmer in Viet Nam clearing overgrowth surrounding a small tree in an effort to reduce competition for light, water and nutrients. 1 September 2015, Rome/Bangkok - A new UN programme funded by Germany will help eight developing countries revamp and …
Anneli Rogeman, CEO of We Effect, and FAO's José Graziano da Silva. 31 August 2015, Stockholm/Rome – FAO and the Swedish-based development cooperation organization We Effect have agreed to work together to strengthen small-scale forest and farm …
Girls herdng goats in Somalia where in certain areas drought has contributed to severe water shortages and livestock deaths. Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit – Somalia (FSNAU) and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWSNET) Technical …
New potato varieties will now be added to over 860,000 food crop seeds stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, buried in the permafrost far north of the Arctic Circle. 27 August 2015, Svalbard, Norway - Varieties of one of the world's most important …
Farmland along the banks of Rwanda's Lake Sake. 24 August 2015, Rome - A new open-access data portal to be developed by FAO will use satellite imagery to help water-scarce countries in the Near East and North Africa better manage this precious resource …
