Feeding people while saving the planet – “Change the Game, Change the Future” online platform challenges youth with delicate balancing act

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2021 Innovation Award winners announced

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One day to go: World Food Forum starts 1 Oct with young generations shaping a better future for food

The Oct. 1-5 online event aims to harness the energy and creativity of younger generations to transform food and agriculture and help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular SDG 2 "No hunger"
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The scourge of food loss and waste needs to be urgently tackled to achieve the world’s 2030 target

"We need to accelerate progress in achieving SDG (Sustainable Development Goal) target 12.3 by 2030 to halve global food waste and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses," FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said, warning that we only have "nine (harvest) seasons remaining to do so."
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Preserving biodiversity: Effective, lasting solutions based on science and innovation

The agri-food sector is a key player in the management of biodiversity as well as its custodian, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said in his opening remarks at the 18th Regular Session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA).
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Food Systems Summit – “From New York back to Rome,” FAO takes on lead role in implementing outcomes

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu made the pledge at the closing segment of the UN Food Systems Summit, "Carrying forward the vision and momentum for 2030," where he delivered the Summit's closing statement.
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Afghanistan: FAO urges G20 countries to increase support for rural farmers

Among Afghanistan’s many challenges, it is urgent that the international community tackle the dramatic hunger risk conditions faced by a third of the population and the livelihood risks in rural region areas where 70 percent of the population live, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu told G20 Foreign Ministers today.
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