News and events

Report explores mutual benefits, trade-offs in tackling hunger and climate change.

The twin battles to improve food security for a growing world population and contain climate change can be fought on the same front—the world's...

The topic raisers of the Discussion “Food Security and Agricultural Governance Systems” are inviting today FSN Members to endorse, in the name of their organizations, the appeals of a Call to Civil Society concerning the...

FAO has begun widespread consultations over the first ever international guidelines on governance of tenure to land and other natural resources such as water supplies, fisheries and forests. The consultations and...

Article by Shweta S. Banerjee consultant with the Global Assets Project at the New America Foundation and published on the internet site of Foreign Policy.

Shweta focusses on the positive impact on poverty reduction and...

FAO has published a "methodological toolbox" on the right to food, designed to provide countries, institutions civil society and other stakeholders with a series of effective instruments they can use to assert the right...

On the occasion of World Food Week, FAO launched a new website on hunger. The FAO Hunger Portal features country specific statistics and an interactive world map to visualize the prevalence of hunger around the globe.A set of...

Video footage of the How to Feed the World in 2050 HLEF is available on line.

Please visit www.fao.org/webcast/ to view the videos.

The 2009 edition of the FAO Flagship Publication The State of Food Insecurity in the World has been published!

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2009 presents the latest statistics on global undernourishment and...

Net investments of $83 billion a year must be made in agriculture in developing countries if there is to be enough food to feed 9.1 billion people in 2050, according to an FAO discussion paper recently published . ...

By 2050 the world’s population will reach 9.1 billion, 34 percent higher than today. Nearly all of this population increase will occur in developing countries. Urbanization will continue at an accelerated pace, and about 70...