New agreement with the Government of Ukraine aims to bolster support for farmers

A call for urgent action to address the global food security crisis.

The Russian Federation and Ukraine are major global suppliers of cereals and sunflower oil, while the Russian Federation is also a leading exporter of fertilizers and energy. Due to the devastating war in Ukraine, global prices for these commodities have reached record highs.

FAO Food Price Index dips by 1.9 percent while new FAO forecasts point to lower global cereals output in 2022

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Canada contributes USD 40 million to cover 2.4 million tonnes of storage.

Ukraine: Humanitarian response update

The COVID-19 pandemic, interruption in international supply chains, and the war in Ukraine have severely disrupted food, fuel, and fertilizer markets, which are interlinked

Director-General Qu Dongyu warns of double burden on global agrifood systems, leaving poor farmers and lack of food availability at the same time

World cereal production seen slightly down in 2022

Committee on Commodity Problems opens its 75th Session

The latest State of Food Security and Nutrition report shows the world is moving backwards in efforts to eliminate hunger and malnutrition

FAO’s State of Agricultural Commodity Markets examines ways to enhance the contribution of trade to food security, resilience and environmental goals

Director-General Qu Dongyu spoke at the "Uniting for Global Food Security" event.

Larysa starts a path as a backyard farmer to ensure her family’s food security

Conflict, weather extremes, economic shocks, the lingering impacts of COVID-19, and the ripple effects from the war in Ukraine push millions of people in countries across the world into poverty and hunger

Director-General QU Dongyu notes that conflict remains the main driver of global hunger

Kyiv/Rome – Working to safeguard the food security and livelihoods of vulnerable rural families in Ukraine, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has distributed seed potato kits to 17 740 households from across ten of the country’s oblasts so they can plant food in time for the next harvesting season.