A vital initiative to boost local food production and restore livelihoods amid ongoing conflict

At the 44^th Session of FAO Conference, QU Dongyu stresses the need to move beyond rhetoric to nourish people, protect the planet, and empower communities.

Director-General QU Dongyu highlights challenges and untapped potential in SIDS, LDCs and LLDCs at high-level ministerial event

He delivered the McDougall Memorial Lecture at the 44th Session of the FAO Conference.

Director-General QU Dongyu addresses the 6th AU-EU Agriculture Ministerial Conference

Agrifood investment and finance solutions for people and the planet.

Two-thirds of the 70 million hectares affected by human-induced degradation — over 46 million hectares — are agricultural land 

FAO Director-General says biotechnologies are a vital driver of agrifood systems transformation

Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti, and Mali remain hotspots of highest concern, and Democratic Republic of the Congo has returned as a hunger hotspot to watch

From FAO Office in South Sudan

Noting risks, report examines impacts of avian influenza, changing trade patterns since 2022, fish fraud, and shipping industry’s net-zero goals.

The areas include the restoration of five million hectares of marine ecosystems

Expanded assessment confirms sustainability challenges as well as gains where effective fisheries management is in place

FAO’s 80-year history illustrates potential for finding solutions

 

New FAO forecasts point to record global cereal output with a partial rebound in stocks and trade.

Findings come from FAO’s upgraded Adaptation, Biodiversity and Carbon Mapping Tool “ABC-Map”, further boosting capacity to assess and confront climate-related shocks

From FAO Office in Ukraine

Water conservation, transboundary cooperation and sustainable agriculture are key to securing the region’s future, says FAO Director-General QU Dongyu 

Available cropland now at less than five percent, according to latest geospatial assessment from FAO and UNOSAT

FAO’s Director-General addresses the 5th Baghdad International Water Conference