Rural transformation
More than half of the world’s seven billion people live in urban areas – a proportion that is set to increase to 69% by 2050. Rapid urbanization will increase the demand for food security, nutritious diets and food safety for urban populations.
Food and agriculture were at the centre stage at the COP28 negotiations where FAO’s Global Roadmap was presented, setting a strategy for achieving SDG2 while remaining within the 1.5C threshold....
A great opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of the benefits that pulses provide to agrifood systems and the environment.
The Webinar will share results of an FAO Project on Life Cycle Assessment started in May 2021, and will present a state-of-the-art review carried out by an international team of thirty...
Globally, 80% of the world's extreme poor reside in rural regions, and 76% of them engage in agriculture, primarily subsistence farming. They also heavily rely on and work with caring for the bulk...
Presentation of several online platforms that visualise and connect FLR projects with possible investors.
On 6 December, the FAO will host the opening ceremony of the International Year of Millets (IYM) to raise awareness around IYM and call attention to the benefits of promoting the sustainable...
The expert panel will try to identify innovative ways for strengthening the role and function of urban, local and territorial food systems to sustainable food systems transformation by looking at...
On 12 July 2023 from 10 AM to 12 PM (New York Time), FAO and its co-publishing partners will be launching, for the fifth time, the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report...
The Global Symposium on Soils for Nutrition - “Soils, where food begins” will be held in a virtual format from 26 to 29 July 2022. Organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of...