From 9 to 12 April 2024, the picturesque city of Leuven, Belgium, hosted the 5th Global Food Security Conference, themed "Towards Equitable, Sustainable, and Resilient Food Systems." This vital gathering brought together experts, policymakers, and industr

LOGin is a feature interview series regularly organized by the FAO Liaison Office in Geneva (LOG). Through LOGin, we meet with FAO’s leadership and discuss how FAO is supporting its members in transforming agrifood systems. In this edition, we met with Co

From 24 to 27 April 2023, the One Planet Network’s Sustainable Food Systems Programme and the Food Systems Coordination Hub are co-organizing the Conference ‘The Transformation We Need’, hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Viet

Today, more than 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas and consumes 70% of all food produced globally. By 2050, the urban population is expected to grow even more. This presents a challenge: urban areas need efficient food systems that ensure

Significantly high levels of food loss and waste (FLW) occur in the global agrifood system. Up to 13.2 percent of food produced globally is lost while 17 percent is wasted. FLW has negative impacts on food security and nutrition – including for the 828 mi

Members stress the importance of promoting innovation, digital technologies and data

FAO’s role to support market access for rice, cassava and maize value chains actors in Benin: The FAO PADAAM ProjectIn Benin, the national agricultural development strategy advocates for a paradigm shift focused on the creation of added value through the

Ambitious plans to help small, medium and large cities become greener, cleaner and integrated into sustainable agri-food systems

Advancing Urban Agrifood Systems Transformation The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), jointly with the SFS-MED Platform, held the session “Partnering for Action in the Mediterranean”, within the framework of the event "Engagin

Inclusive and sustainable urban food systems will be at the centre stage of the September 22th Virtual Event, organized on the occasion of the United Nations Food Systems Summit.The virtual gathering is co-convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization

Harnessing the potential of agritourism to improve rural livelihoods and promote sustainable agrifood systems in AlbaniaHarnessing the potential of agritourism to improve rural livelihoods and promote sustainable agrifood systems in Albania

FAO Director-General signs up to ethical resolution on AI endorsed by Pope Francis

The AgrInvest-Food Systems project of FAO has just released its first food systems assessment for Kenya, as a result of a partnership with the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM). The newly published study - Political economy analysi

FAO regional conference on rebound from damage of COVID-19  

FAO Deputy Director-General Semedo joins the United Nations Environment Assembly and Quadripartite Executive Annual Meeting

FAO organized a workshop in Ouagadougou “AgrInvest - Enabling inclusive and efficient private sector investments in the Burkinabè agri-food systems”

FAO and African Union Commission launch investment guidelines for youth...

On Wednesday 29 July from 2 to 4 PM (CET), FAO will host the Online Event Urban Food Systems and COVID-19 – Key Results from a FAO Global Survey.

Agrifood systems involve complex challenges, whose scale and nature call for a systemic, multi-level and multi-stakeholder participatory approach across economic, social, and environmental dimensions. Multi-stakeholder collaboration therefore needs to for

Plenary Session 1: Food Systems Transformation in Practice – Successes, Challenges and the Way Forward will be an opportunity to share agrifood systems transformation experiences; identify best practices and showcase successes that can be replicated acros