IFAD and FAO target small-scale agricultural projects facing challenges
02/10/2013
$2.6 million grant to help countries manage public investments
World cereal production set to jump 8 percent this year
03/10/2013
Serious food insecurity affects Syria, Central African Republic and DR Congo
Committee on World Food Security meets on hunger challenges
07/10/2013
International platform promotes policy convergence for better food security
Four million people food insecure in Madagascar
09/10/2013
Rice production badly hit by erratic weather and locust invasion
FAO calls on countries to adapt to food price volatility
07/10/2013
Volatile prices here to stay - Ministers from 30 countries meet to discuss international food prices
FAO will cooperate with La Via Campesina, the largest movement of small-scale food producers in the world
04/10/2013
New agreement between FAO and the most representative movement of small producers
Civil society readies its voice ahead of annual CFS meeting
05/10/2013
Director-General opens the International Food Security and Nutrition Civil Society Mechanism (CSM) meeting that will debate a number of key issues during the annual Committee on World Food Security
School feeding sourced from small farmers breaks new ground in Africa
09/10/2013
FAO, WFP, Brazil, the UK and five African governments working to empower small farmers and help Africa feed itself
West Africa has potential to strengthen its agricultural sector
18/12/2013
Food security in the region could improve with targeted policy support
FAO Director-General asks private sector to support anti-hunger trust fund
10/10/2013
“What the private sector does locally to combat hunger can quickly become global” - Graziano da Silva
Biofuel development should not compromise food security, says CFS
11/10/2013
Committee on World Food Security also stresses policy and investment support for smallholder farmers and producers
In Italy-funded programme, organized small farmers become entrepreneurs
15/10/2013
At the opening of World Food Week, FAO highlights the success of the Italy-funded Food Security through Commercialization of Agriculture Programme
Coordinated efforts in aquaculture needed to meet global demand
15/10/2013
Global partnership to find sustainable solutions ‘imperative’, FAO says
Call for better food systems to fight hunger and malnutrition
16/10/2013
World Food Day observed in 150 countries
FAO partners with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
16/10/2013
Organizations agree on a three-year action plan to improve the food security and resilience of vulnerable communities facing threats and disasters
Urgent collaboration required on food wastage
16/10/2013
Seminar on global food losses organized by Italian government
United Kingdom contributes to FAO’s work in Syria and Lebanon
21/10/2013
British development agency donates £10 million for humanitarian projects
FAO celebrates quinoa’s legacy with Peru and Bolivia during World Food Week
17/10/2013
A symbolic harvest and panel discussion on the Andean "super food" highlight the importance of quinoa and other underutilized crops in the fight against hunger
Monitoring food loss and waste essential to hunger fight
21/10/2013
FAO at Green Global Growth Forum in Copenhagen calls for “innovative thinking” to measure and cut global food loss and waste along the food chain
EBRD and FAO set pathway to sustainable forestry investment in the Russian Federation’s Far East
23/10/2013
Improved legal framework, forest inventory and infrastructure among key measures