The resilience of our food system is being pushed to the absolute limits,” said Corinna Hawkes, Director for food systems at FAO during the session on Urban food policies for a sustainable and just future at the Brussels Urban Summit. “And we know from ou

FAO to co-host a virtual consultation on Urban Food Systems with UNEP and UN-Habitat...

Date and time: Wednesday, 26 April 2023, 13:00-14:30 CEST (18:00-19:30 GMT+7) Registration link: Click here / Streaming link: Click here Live interpretation in English, French and Arabic will be provided. The main objective of this side event is to showca

FAO’s Regional Conference for Europe kicks off hosted virtually by Uzbekistan

“As we transform agrifood systems, food safety is one of the things we have to get right,” says FAO Food Systems and Food Safety Division Director Corinna Hawkes in a video message recorded in early March to invite participation in World Food Safety Day t

24 - 27 April | "The Transformation We Need", 4th global conference of the Sustainable Food Systems Programme.FOLLOW THE LIVESTREAM HEREWhy are our food systems unsustainable? How should we transform them? And finally, how can we emerge from global crises

Costa Rica is making significant strides in formulating and implementing public policies that contribute to the sustainable transformation of its agrifood systems. A new brief, "Policymaking for Agrifood Systems Transformation in Costa Rica", developed by

FAO, CIHEAM and UfM join forces to boost progress on the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda across the Mediterranean, ahead of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit

African leaders meet in Kigali to discuss bold actions for resilient agrifood systems...

Catalyzing change across small island developing states

COVID-19 is creating significant food security and nutrition challenges that cities worldwide need to respond to and that go beyond the health emergency. FAO recently set up a survey targeting municipalities worldwide and that received responses from over

Three United Nations Agencies, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Environmental Programmed (UNEP) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) held an engaging side event, on their upcoming Guide to Multi

On Thursday 26 January 2023 at 9.30 AM (CET), FAO is co-hosting the SFS-MED Webinar 4: Consumers and Mediterranean diet: towards food systems transformation.The webinar is organized under the framework of the SFS-MED platform, and it will bring together s

On 29 July 2020, FAO hosted the  Event Urban Food Systems and COVID-19 – Key Results from an FAO Global Survey.

Support from Italy enables multi-stakeholder approaches to sustainable food systems in the MediterraneanAmman/Rabat/Rome/Tirana – Food systems stakeholders in Albania, Jordan, and Morocco have gotten a boost from a project funded by the Ministry of Foreig

FAO urges Member States’ support to accelerate hunger- and poverty-fighting efforts

FAO hosts panel discussion at Global Forum for Food and Agriculture in Berlin

Global Female Voices join FAO in the need for solidarity and urgent action

Director of the FAO Division of Food Systems and Food Safety Corinna Hawkes says a holistic and sustainable approach is needed to ensure nutritious food and sustainable livelihoods for all...

Interview with Zitouni Ould-Dada, Deputy Director of FAO’s Climate and Environment division...