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    World Food Day 2020

    Collective action across 150 countries is what makes World Food Day one of the most celebrated days of the UN calendar. Hundreds of events and outreach activities bring together governments, businesses, NGOs, the media, and the public. They promote worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to ensure healthy diets for all.

    Celebration of World Water Day 2021

    The World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness of the global water crisis, and a core focus of the observance is to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030. The theme of World Water Day 2021 is valuing water. The value of water is about much more than its economic value – water has enormous and complex value for our households, food, culture, health, education, economics and the integrity of our natural environment. If w

    FAO Director-General QU Dongyu designates European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet FAO Goodwill Ambassador

    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has nominated European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet as Goodwill Ambassador on the International Day of Human Space Flight (12 April),

    High-Level Virtual Event to release the 2021 Global Report on Food Crises

    On 5 May 2021, the Global Network’s partners will hold a high-level virtual event to release the 2021 Global Report on Food Crises and share the latest data and information on how many and why people are facing acute hunger and malnutrition in 55 countries and territories in food crises. The event will also discuss the current measures and those that should be adopted to address food emergencies, the aggravating impact that COVID-19 has had on food crisis contexts, and the role that resilient ag

    2021 FOOD SYSTEMS PRE-SUMMIT

    In 2021, UN Secretary-General António Guterres will convene a Food Systems Summit as part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The Summit will launch bold new actions to deliver progress on all 17 SDGs, each of which relies to some degree on healthier, more sustainable and equitable food systems. The Summit will awaken the world to the fact that we all must work together to transform the way the world produces, consumes and thinks about food. It i

    World Food Day 2021

    The global World Food Day ceremony will take place as a virtual event at 10.00 CEST on Friday, 15 October, and will include speeches and video messages from His Excellency Sergio Mattarella, President of the Republic of Italy, His Holiness Pope Francis, UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the three heads of the Rome-based agencies.
    FAO hand in hand with Italy in the fight against COVID-19

    FAO hand in hand with Italy in the fight against COVID-19

    FAO lights up its Rome headquarters in Italian green, white and red "Tricolore"
    World Food Day 2020

    World Food Day 2020

    Collective action across 150 countries is what makes World Food Day one of the most celebrated days of the UN calendar. Hundreds of events and outreach activities bring together governments, businesses, NGOs, the media, and the public. They promote worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to ensure healthy diets for all.
    Celebration of World Water Day 2021

    Celebration of World Water Day 2021

    The World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness of the global water crisis, and a core focus of the observance is to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030. The theme of World Water Day 2021 is valuing water. The value of water is about much more than its economic value – water has enormous and complex value for our households, food, culture, health, education, economics and the integrity of our natural environment. If w
    FAO Director-General QU Dongyu designates European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet FAO Goodwill Ambassador

    FAO Director-General QU Dongyu designates European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet FAO Goodwill Ambassador

    The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has nominated European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet as Goodwill Ambassador on the International Day of Human Space Flight (12 April),
    High-Level Virtual Event to release the 2021 Global Report on Food Crises

    High-Level Virtual Event to release the 2021 Global Report on Food Crises

    On 5 May 2021, the Global Network’s partners will hold a high-level virtual event to release the 2021 Global Report on Food Crises and share the latest data and information on how many and why people are facing acute hunger and malnutrition in 55 countries and territories in food crises. The event will also discuss the current measures and those that should be adopted to address food emergencies, the aggravating impact that COVID-19 has had on food crisis contexts, and the role that resilient ag
    2021 FOOD SYSTEMS PRE-SUMMIT

    2021 FOOD SYSTEMS PRE-SUMMIT

    In 2021, UN Secretary-General António Guterres will convene a Food Systems Summit as part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The Summit will launch bold new actions to deliver progress on all 17 SDGs, each of which relies to some degree on healthier, more sustainable and equitable food systems. The Summit will awaken the world to the fact that we all must work together to transform the way the world produces, consumes and thinks about food. It i
    World Food Day 2021

    World Food Day 2021

    The global World Food Day ceremony will take place as a virtual event at 10.00 CEST on Friday, 15 October, and will include speeches and video messages from His Excellency Sergio Mattarella, President of the Republic of Italy, His Holiness Pope Francis, UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the three heads of the Rome-based agencies.

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