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UNITED NATIONS
F A O
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
16 October 1945 - 16 October 2025
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FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu calls for “urgent change to transform food system.”
C o u r t e s y ,
FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu
Courtesy, FAO/Photo: Christian Mantuano: FAO Director-General QU Dongyu delivers his address during the opening of the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste Exhibition, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy, Sept. 29, 2025.
“The actions we take today will directly impact the future. We must produce more with less. Let’s
work towards a future that is more
inclusive and more equitable.”
Quote Courtesy. FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu
What is . . . FAO?
"The FAO [Food and Agriculture Organization] of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information. We help developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all.
Since our founding in 1945, we have focused special attention on developing rural areas, home to 70 percent of the world's poor and hungry people."
Text Courtesy, FAO
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Special Announcement: 2025
"Despite receiving just 22 percent of those funds in 2024,
by mid-year FAO had reached almost 20 million people in
crisis countries with a combination of emergency and
resilience assistance. When crisis-hit communities
are given the means to meet their own needs,
they see enormous benefits in terms of
reduced hunger and malnutrition,
stabilized livelihoods and a step towards greater
resilience. Emergency agriculture offers a pathway
out of hunger, even in the midst of violence. In 2025,
FAO is seeking USD 1.9 billion under the humanitarian
appeals. With these funds, over 49 million people
could produce their own food and make their
own way out of acute food insecurity."
Courtesy, FAO - FAO/Tamiru Legesse
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SEE ALSO: ADEQUATE FOOD FOR ALL
"The right to food is a universal human right. Everyone has the right to be free from hunger and to have an adequate tandard of living, including food. Recognizing the right to food upholds the dignity of every person and ensures they can live free from discrimination. It is an entitlement, something we have the right to demand. Governments and organizations have ethical and legal responsibilities to respect, protect, and fulfill this right. Continuous efforts by state and non-state actors are crucial for the full realization of the right to adequate food."
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REMINDER:
Nations Great and Small must work
together to achieve SDG 2:
ZERO HUNGER.
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Special Announcement
Save the Dates: 10-17 October 2025
World Food Forum
Registration is Open: Click Here
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Special Announcements
Save the Dates: 27 - 29 July 2025
Ethiopia & Italy 2025
High-Level Launch of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the
World 2025 (SOFI)
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2nd United Nations Food Systems Summit Stocktake (UNFSS+4), Addis Ababa Monday, 28 July 2025 |
18:30 – 20:00 hours,
Addis Ababa time (GMT-3); Event agenda
The event will be webcast: CLICK HERE
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Save the Date: 22 July 2025;
10:00-12:00 (EDT)
SOFI - 2025
State of Food Security and Nutrition
in the World: Special Event on
Addressing High Food Price
Inflation for Food Security and Nutrition
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Learn more about international
efforts to defeat hunger
and the . . .
"State of Food and Agriculture"
2024
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See Also...
"State of Food Security and
Nutrition in the World"
SOFI - 2024
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
UN FOOD SYSTEMS SUMMIT 2023
Rome, Italy: 24 - 26 July 2023
UN Secretary-General, António Guterres
MUST SEE VIDEO:
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“In a world of plenty, it is outrageous that people continue to suffer and die from hunger . . .
Global food systems are broken — and
billions of people are paying the price.”
- Quote, UN Secretary-General, António Guterres -
The UN Secretary-General has committed in his Chair Summary and Statement of Action on the UN Food Systems Summit to convene “a global stocktaking meeting every two years to review progress in implementing the outcomes of this process and its contributions to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda. This will be supported by the RBAs, the broader UN System and partners.”
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Africa’s food ‘transformation’ impossible without game
changing solutions.
Courtesy: United Nations / FAO
Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed addesses the UN Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment in Rome, Italy.
Read more at: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/07/1139082
A full-scale Africa-led agrifood systems transformation will not
be possible without game changing solutions, greater
investments in smallholder farmers, embracing
new technology and new partnerships at all levels.
Those were some of the takeaways from a high-level special event held on the sidelines of the UN Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment on Africa's food sovereignty and resilience, organized by the Interdepartmental Task Force on African Affairs (IDTFAA).
Representatives from governments, the UN, the African Union and others, exchanged views on how to seize momentum for the Africa-led transformation of agrifood systems – the entire food production industry from farm to fork - to make them more efficient, more inclusive and more resilient.
The FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, praised Africa’s strengths underpinned by its human and natural resources, adding that to unleash its full potential, the continent needs game-changing action.
He said investing in social development - in particular youth, women and smallholder farmers - was a key priority.
He also highlighted the need for a shift towards digital agriculture in the continent, noting that FAO has launched the 1000 Digital Village Initiative.
Text Courtesy: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/07/1139082
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QUESTION?
Does "Agriculture" have anything to
do with "Food Systems?"
YES!
MUST SEE VIDEO:
Video Courtesy, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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**Special Announcement!**
Celebrating World Bee Day!
May 20, 2023
Bee Engaged in Pollinator-friendly Agricultural Production
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
SAVE THE DATES: 17 - 21 October 2022
Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, Italy.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Does "Agriculture" have anything to
do with "Food Systems?"
YES!
PRE-SUMMIT:
UN FOOD SYSTEMS SUMMIT 2021
A Bold Ambition to Improve Food Systems
Rome, Italy: 26 - 28 July 2021
"The Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) will set the stage for the culminating global event in September 2021 by bringing together diverse actors from around the world to leverage the power of food systems to deliver progress on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). . . Through the Pre-Summit, the UN Food Systems Summit will reaffirm its commitment to promote human rights for all and ensure the most marginalised groups have an opportunity to participate in, contribute to and benefit from the Summit process. . . "
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EMERGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT
East African countries better prepared,
but desert locust threat ‘not over’
January 19, 2021
Courtesy, UN - FAO
"Action to control unprecedented desert locust infestations in the Horn of Africa last year has protected crops and livelihoods, but funding is needed to sustain
operations against new incursions, . . . "
- FAO -
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EMERGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Business Development and Resource Mobilization
Online Global Dialogue: Joint action on COVID-19
Tuesday, 14 July 2020, 9:30–12:00 CEST
MUST SEE VIDEO
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"In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, developing countries need massive and urgent support. Join us for an open global dialogue to learn about
FAO’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme, and how you
can partner with us to prevent a global food emergency."
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Director-General of the United Nations FAO:
Qu Dongyu
New Director-General vows to build on UN FAO's strengths, making it
more dynamic, transparent and inclusive!
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QUESTION?!
Are connected partnerships with technological
advantages the way to navigate into the
future with efforts to ensure
adequate food for all?
Introducing the ATIO Knowledge Base,
Your Gateway to
Agrifood Technologies and Innovations
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What are you waiting for?
Have you thought about
Agriculture's
vital importance lately?
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Are you "Investing" in
Agriculture
to . . .
Sustain Humanity?
Whether fields of corn . . .
. . . or spreads of wheat,
"A G R I C U L T U R E"
s u s t a i n s . . .
" E V E R Y O N E ! "
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Start Learning More . . .
Start "Investing"
Now!
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