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Joint Statement by the heads of FAO, IMF, World Bank, WFP and WTO
08/02/2023
The global food and nutrition security crisis
FAO fully committed to limiting the spread of antimicrobial resistance
07/02/2023
FAO Director-General QU Dongyu addresses the sixth meeting of the Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance
FAO Director-General addresses the launch of the Early Warnings initiative for the Caribbean
06/02/2023
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today addressed the launch in Bridgetown, Barbados of the Executive Action Plan for the Early Warnings for All Initiative (EW4ALL) for the Caribbean, an event designed to mobilize support among the region’s governments for a UN plan that helps protect people and assets from the growing number of natural disasters in a relatively cheap and effective way.
Changing the internally displaced persons paradigm in Mozambique
01/02/2023
Providing IDPs from the country’s destabilized Cabo Delgado Region with a means to start over
Putting people, the environment and disaster-risk screening at the centre of projects
30/01/2023
New FAO Framework includes innovative processes to identify potential risks, climate mitigation and resilience measures
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Latin America and Caribbean can be at the forefront of global food and agriculture, provided it first tackles hunger and inequality
25/01/2023
FAO Director-General points to priority areas for action to heads of state and government at regional CELAC forum
As the pace of urbanization quickens in Asia-Pacific, so too does the threat of urban food insecurity – UN agencies report
24/01/2023
In 2021, 396 million people in the region were undernourished and an estimated 1.05 billion people suffered from moderate or severe food insecurity.
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Urgent action needed as acute malnutrition threatens the lives of millions of vulnerable children
12/01/2023
FAO and UN partners highlight five priorities for reducing child wasting in worst-hit countries
Ukraine: EU-FAO partnership to ensure recovery and development of agricultural value chains
04/01/2023
A $15.5 million EU-funded project aims to respond to disruptions to the agricultural sector caused by war
Somalia: FAO calls for fully funded, at-scale and sustained life-saving and livelihoods support to pull people from the brink of famine
20/12/2022
Alongside this, large-scale investments in resilience and rural livelihoods are urgently needed to break the hunger cycle