FAO is pleased to announce the release of the Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food [...]

This edition of The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets (SOCO) discusses how trade policies, based on both multilateral and regional approaches, can address today’s challenges for sustainable development. 

This edition of The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets (SOCO) discusses how trade policies, based on both multilateral and regional approaches, can address today’s challenges for sustainable development. Trade policies [...]

26 October 2022, 09.00-16.00 (CEST)

Water is a fundamental resource enabling the production of over 95% of food on land as well the progress of all sustainable development goals [...]

The 2009 FAO Agreement on Port State Measures to prevent, deter, and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (PSMA) has reached 100 States that are now officially [...]

Read the series on how FAO [...]

Read the series on how FAO increased efficiency, effectiveness and transparency to better support its Members in the transformation of agrifood systems

Read the series on how FAO increased efficiency, effectiveness and transparency to better support its Members in the transformation of agrifood systems.

The importance of Ukraine and the Russian Federation for global agricultural markets and the risks associated with the war in Ukraine. 

Global exchange of information on compliance with national, regional, and international fisheries laws and regulations governing sustainable fishing is now possible with the launch of the Global [...]

In this episode, the FAO Food Price Index eased in February, driven mostly by lower cereal prices; FAO calls for restoration of humanitarian space to eliminate the risk of famine [...]

See how, together, the European Union and FAO are leveraging innovative approaches that benefit the global community

In this episode, over 282 million people in 59 countries suffered acute food insecurity in 2023, according to the Global Report on Food Crises; FAO warns about the food insecurity [...]

In this episode, high levels of acute food insecurity in Honduras; FAO’s Regional Conference for Europe; and Earth Map receives the Google impact award.

Fish biomass faces steep falls by end of century under high-emissions scenario

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is organizing its first-ever Global Conference on Animal Health Innovation, Reference Centres and Vaccines from 23 to 25 September at FAO headquarters [...]

The firebrand politician once quipped that she would like to be remembered as a woman who ‘had guts’

Melting permafrost is leading to more frequent rockfalls and landslides on the iconic peak and other areas of the Alps

Yet another reason to fight light pollution

Human beings and chimps share as much as 98 percent of their DNA. If our species are so similar, can chimps be genetically engineered to be more like us?

The answer may lie between being ticklish and having a sense of humor

From soil to soup (Smithsonian.com). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/passion-for-tomatoes.html

Chris Mah, researcher at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in the invertebrate zoology department, describes the characteristics of different sea star species observed on the final dive of the Laulima O Ka Moana expedition. (Credit: Video courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2017 Laulima O Ka Moana)

High-speed video captures the unique ability of a leaping praying mantis to control its spin in mid-air and precisely land on a target.

To soar over Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire is to be transported back in time to the age of William Shakespeare, a man born in humble circumstances who would go on to become the most celebrated writer of all time.

Selected by Mary Ellen Mark for our special issue, this up-and-coming photographer discusses his work

A series of remarkably well-preserved human remains in a remote cave in Scotland has archaeologists grappling with a staggering question: were these bodies brought here during the Bronze Age to be mummified?

Zookeepers at the National Zoo keep orangutans mentally stimulated with an innovative use of iPads

Tod Machover, an MIT professor whose classroom produced Guitar Hero and Rock Band, talks about a future in which everyone can make music

The first computer is thought to be the invention of a 19th century mathematician

Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. On There's More to That, meet the magazine's journalists and hear how they discover the forces behind the biggest issues of our time. 

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