The platform provides a space to hear from partners on concrete ways to accelerate the achievement of shared goals and common approaches towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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.
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.
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).
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.
A group of 15 international organizations working on forestry today issued a joint statement
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.
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.
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.
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