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FAO Director-General made the call in his address to global agriculture ministers conference 22 January 2021, Berlin/Rome - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu today addressed the Agriculture Ministers Conference in Berlin underscoring the importance, in the wake of COVID-19, of continued global cooperation to find new ways to strengthen the sustainability of agri-food systems, and outlined FAO and its partners role in this. The week-long GFFA brought together over 90 ministers from all over the wor...

Promoting food systems transformation in the Mediterranean towards 2030 FAO, CIHEAM and UfM join forces to boost progress on the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda across the Mediterranean, ahead of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit 22 January 2021, Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) and the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at acc...

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Public transit ridership plummeted during the pandemic, but expanding public transit systems remains essential for fighting climate change and improving equity. Photo by Cory Hancock/IMF 2020 upended life as we know it. The coronavirus killed almost 2 million people and counting, while roughly 100 million people fell into extreme poverty. The world entered its worst recession since the second world war. Deep-rooted racial and economic injustices were exposed, while the impacts of the pandemic...

2020 upended life as we know it. The coronavirus killed almost 2 million people and counting, while roughly 100 million people fell into extreme poverty. The world entered its worst recession since the second world war. Deep-rooted racial and economic injustices were exposed, while the  impacts of the pandemic itself fell disproportionately on communities of color. And these crises played […]

Why Transforming Our Food Systems Is a Feminist Issue This post is also available in: French Women farmers clearing farmland in Northern Bangladesh. (Image by Naimul Haq/IPS) In countries where women are most marginalized, discriminated under the law and where gendered norms prevent women from owning property and resources, people are also the hungriest. This is because gender equality and food systems are i...

1 , Rome – The FAO Director-General QU Dongyu today held a meeting with all senior managers of the UN agency, including FAO representatives (FAORs) to about 130 countries, to present the Organization’s priorities for 2021. Opening the fourth meeting of its kind, with almost 200 participants, Qu highlighted that all the strategic decisions, transformative actions and priorities that he had introduced since his arrival at FAO followed a clear, coherent and transparent philosophy of change. H...

UN Special Envoy Dr Agnes Kalibata has urged European governments to engage with the UN in what could be a big year of change.

Public settings, such as schools, childcare centres, nursing homes, hospitals and correctional facilities can play a key role in ensuring people are provided with healthy food and helping prevent the 8 million annual deaths currently caused by unhealthy diets, said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday. A new WHO Action framework for developing and implementing public

WHO urges governments to promote healthy food GENEVA, January 13, 2021 A new WHO Action framework for developing and implementing public food procurement and service policies for a healthy diet aims to increase the availability of healthy food through setting nutrition criteria for food served and sold in public settings.    The action framework also aims to reduce preventable diseases and deaths from high consumption of sodium and salt, sugars and fats, particularly trans fats, and inadeq...