FAO Director-General calls at UN General Assembly for decisive action to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is becoming an increasing threat to global health, food safety and security, potentially also leading to substantial socio-economic damage, and to turn this around, the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, today called for coherent, swift and decisive action.
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FAO and BADEA scale-up partnership in support of African countries

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) have formalized their partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
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FAO Director-General calls at UN General Assembly for decisive action to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is becoming an increasing threat to global health, food safety and security, potentially also leading to substantial socio-economic damage, and to turn this around, the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, today called for coherent, swift and decisive action.
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UN General Assembly to hold High-level Interactive Dialogue on Antimicrobial Resistance – a global health and development threat

The One Health approach recognises the strong links between humans, animals and the environment. AMR - one of the greatest global threats to animal, human and environmental health, livelihoods, food safety and global food security - occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and develop resistance to medicines. The impact is devastating.
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Collaborative Partnership on Forests calls for halt to deforestation

A group of 15 international organizations working on forestry today issued a joint statement
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Historic opportunities for global action to eradicate poverty, end hunger and reduce inequalities

Addressing the 166th Session of the FAO Council today, Director-General QU Dongyu highlighted the ways the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been providing constant support to Members, particularly to overcome the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Healthy forests are key to “building back better”

The first flagship publication “The Global Forest Goals Report 2021” produced by the UN Forum on Forests Secretariat of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs was launched.
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Small family farmers produce a third of the world’s food

Five of every six farms in the world consist of less than two hectares, operate only around 12 percent of all agricultural land, and produce roughly 35 percent of the world’s food, according to a FAO study published in World Development.
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Rome Call for Artificial Intelligence ethics draws global interest

The DG's participation in the Rome Call for AI Ethics was one of the five most important news events in 2020 on the subject of ethical use of AI technologies, a topic that is rapidly gaining prominence, according to the AI Index Report from the Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) of Stanford University
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Keeping soils alive and healthy is key to sustain life on our planet

The Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) drew to a close with a call to recognize and enhance the role of soil organisms in sustaining life on Earth.
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FAO Director-General marks Earth Day with sustainability plea

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, has told participants in a virtual Food for Earth “global marathon” that sustainability was a “fundamental concept and a cross-cutting theme throughout the Organization’s activities, interventions and initiatives”.
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Giving a voice to soil organisms – our silent allies in the fight against hunger

The Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) kicked off yesterday with a call to preserve this vast community of living soil organisms and the vital ecosystem services they provide.
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