Investment incentives: a powerful tool to enhance responsible investment in agriculture and agri-food systems, says new guide

Increased investment in agriculture and agri-food systems has the potential to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges, but to generate long-term, sustainable benefits, these investments must be responsible, says a new guide.
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Investment incentives: a powerful tool to enhance responsible investment in agriculture and agri-food systems, says new guide

Increased investment in agriculture and agri-food systems has the potential to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges, but to generate long-term, sustainable benefits, these investments must be responsible, says a new guide.
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Speech of FAO Director-General at G20 Meeting of Joint Foreign Affairs and Development Ministers

Speech by Dr. QU Dongyu, FAO Director-General Joint Meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Development Ministers Under the G20 Presidency of the Republic of Italy
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FAO Director-General urges G20: invest in rural areas and step up actions to eradicate hunger and poverty

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, QU Dongyu, today urged Foreign Affairs and Development Ministers of G20 countries to make more investments in rural areas and double down on actions to eradicate hunger and poverty.
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FAO Investment Centre’s Annual Review highlights successes in 2020 and beyond

Despite an unprecedented and challenging year marked by the global impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the FAO Investment Centre’s work to support sustainable investment in food and agriculture continued apace in 2020.
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Improving zoonotic disease prevention and livestock production through nuclear-derived techniques

FAO and IAEA today opened the International Symposium on Sustainable Animal Production and Health
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FAO report maps insights from and threats to Indigenous Peoples’ food systems

FAO and partners released today a new study identifying hundreds of diverse plant and animal species that Indigenous Peoples around the world depend on and care for to generate food sustainably and enhance biodiversity – and warning of increasing threats to these sophisticated food systems.
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FAO report maps insights from and threats to Indigenous Peoples’ food systems

FAO and partners released today a new study identifying hundreds of diverse plant and animal species that Indigenous Peoples around the world depend on and care for to generate food sustainably and enhance biodiversity – and warning of increasing threats to these sophisticated food systems.
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Wholesale food markets are critical for agri-food systems transformation

Wholesale food markets are a critical partner in global efforts to transform agri-food systems and fight worsening food insecurity, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, said today.
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Wholesale food markets are critical for agri-food systems transformation

Wholesale food markets are a critical partner in global efforts to transform agri-food systems and fight worsening food insecurity, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, said today.
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Education is a key lifeline for world’s forests

Forest education at all levels – from primary schools to universities – is insufficient in many countries of the world, according to the results of a global survey.
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Hunger and malnutrition in the Arab region hamper achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 by 2030, UN report warns

The latest edition of the Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in the Near East and North Africa, published today, estimates that more than 51 million people in the region are suffering from hunger.
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