FAO Food Price Index rises for ninth consecutive month in February

The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of commonly-traded food commodities, averaged 116.0 points in February, 2.4 percent higher than the previous month and up 26.5 percent from a year ago.
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UN World Wildlife Day highlights role of indigenous and local communities’ livelihoods and knowledge in the conservation of forest species and ecosystems

For the first-ever virtual celebration of the United Nations’ World Wildlife Day, representatives of UN Member States, UN System organizations, international and non-governmental organizations, Indigenous and Local communities, and youth took part in an online event marking the Day.
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Urgent aid needed to fight humanitarian crisis in Yemen, says FAO Director-General

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, has appealed for urgent aid to fight the humanitarian crisis in Yemen as UN agencies work to prevent a large-scale famine in the country.
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Building momentum on the ethical approach towards Artificial Intelligence endorsed by Pope Francis

The Rome Call for AI Ethics is a document created to support an ethical approach to Artificial Intelligence and promote a sense of shared responsibility among organizations, governments and institutions with the aim of guaranteeing a future in which digital innovation and technological progress are at the service of human ingenuity and creativity.
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FAO’s Investment Centre doubles down on efforts to create more robust and sustainable agri-food systems

Mohamed Manssouri, Director of FAO’s Investment Centre discusses the Centre’s work and expansion plans.
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Transforming agri-food systems is powerful lever for achieving global goals

A holistic redesign of the world’s agri-food systems can make outsized contributions to achieving global pledges such as ending hunger by 2030, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said in a keynote lecture at Italy’s historic Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
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FAO supports China-Latin America and the Caribbean partnership to boost agri-food systems

The second China-CELAC Forum was held under the joint chairmanship of the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development of Mexico, Victor Villalobos, and the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, TANG Renjian. Twenty-six Latin American and Caribbean countries were represented by their ministers or vice ministers.
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FAO and IAEA deepen and broaden their collaboration

The Director-Generals of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), QU Dongyu, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, today updated and strengthened their longstanding collaboration arrangement.
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FAO pledges to scale up direct use of digital financial transfers

FAO is committing to increasing by 50 percent its delivery of digital financial transfers and vouchers to beneficiaries. As part of joining the Better than Cash Alliance, FAO is also pledging to expand its use of digital payments in at least ten more of its Decentralized Offices.
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FAO honoured to take the rotating chairmanship of the Tripartite

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today took over the rotating chairmanship of the Tripartite Secretariat from the World Organisation for Animal Health’s (OIE) Director-General, Monique Eloit.
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Somalia: Urgent scaling up of emergency response needed, as 2.65 million people are projected to be in acute hunger

FAO and the Government of Somalia have emphasized the urgency to increase support to sustain ongoing desert locust control and surveillance efforts, and to provide rapid emergency assistance over the coming months.
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Somalia: Urgent scaling up of emergency response needed, as 2.65 million people are projected to be in acute hunger

FAO and the Government of Somalia have emphasized the urgency to increase support to sustain ongoing desert locust control and surveillance efforts, and to provide rapid emergency assistance over the coming months.
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