- Under the Strategic Framework, FAO has made resilience a corporate priority. Its approach focuses on supporting people, institutions and state systems to absorb, adapt and transform when confronted with shocks and threats affecting their food security and agriculture-based livelihoods. In…
- Agriculture has an image problem. Simply put, for the majority of the world’s youth, agriculture simply isn’t seen as being “cool” or attractive. Most think of it only as back-breaking labor, without an economic pay-off—and little room for career advancement. With an ageing population of…
- In 2010, FAO highlighted the dramatic impact of protracted crises on food security and nutrition in 22 countries. West Asia and Africa have the majority of countries suffering from such crises, most heavily affecting the poor in rural areas and in particular vulnerable women and children…