The FAO Food Price Index averaged 133.2 points in October, up 3 percent from September, rising for a third consecutive month. 

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has published its annual Statistical Yearbook, which provides a comprehensive overview of the global food and agricultural landscape and a summary of data on food, nutrition and agriculture.

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu addresses Nov. 2-3 Global Solutions Forum on child labour

FAO Director-General addresses world leaders at G20 summit

FAO, Italy, Lazio and Rome join planting ceremony ahead of G20 Summit and COP 26

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu addresses the G20 Joint Finance and Health Ministers’ Meeting 

Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General of FAO, talks about how agri-food systems are part of the solution to the climate crisis ahead of COP26

 $11.2 million donation from Mastercard Foundation to aid control and recovery efforts

UN appeals for urgent assistance as country becomes one of the world’s largest food crises

EMPRES-i+ aims to improve intelligence, forecasting and early warning, enabling countries to monitor disease spread and risk of new outbreaks 

This was the main message conveyed by FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, at the fifth informal joint meeting of the governing bodies of the three RBAs (FAO Council, IFAD Executive Board and WFP Executive Board)

FAO Director-General opens Oct. 20-22 Global Symposium on Salt-Affected Soils

FAO Director-General addresses Finance in Common summit in Rome, strengthens ties with Italy’s CDP.

World Economic Forum founder Karl Schwab delivers keynote address at FAO-hosted World Food Day celebrations.

Pope Francis joins other leaders with messages for global event paying tribute to Food Heroes

Global tea and coffee experts came together today to explore and celebrate the cultural, social, and economic importance of the world’s two most popular beverages including their role in making agri-food systems more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable.

FAO Director General QU Dongyu at Virtual High-Level Segment (HLS) of the 2020 UN Biodiversity Conference “Ecological Civilization-Building a Shared Future for All Life on Earth”

Brussels Dialogue - “From reaction to prevention: anticipatory action against food crises” – highlights efficiency and cost-effectiveness of anticipatory action

Agri-food systems transformation is urgently needed to get back on track towards the goal of eradicating hunger and malnutrition, the 49th session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) heard today.

FAO has been supporting the role of parliamentarians in the fight against hunger and malnutrition for many years.