Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. 

Our goal is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. With over 194 member states, FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide. We believe that everyone can play a part in ending hunger. 

In Africa, our goal is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. With 47 sub-Saharan African countries, the Regional Office for Africa believes that everyone can play a part in ending hunger. 

To meet the demands posed by major global trends in agricultural development and challenges faced by member nations, FAO has identified key priorities on which it is best placed to intervene.  Africa has three Regional Initiatives based on an in-depth cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary review of regional issues and trends as well as alignment with regional commitments. These are:

1. Working with African Union commitments to ending hunger by 2025
2. Pursuing inclusive agricultural transformation agenda to reduce poverty; and
3. Enhancing resilience of livelihoods and production systems

• On the margins of ARFSD7, FAO is part of a side event: Conflict-Climate Change-COVID-19 nexus: A food systems perspective jointly organized by the AU, UNECA, FAO, IFAD, UNICEF and WFP. The event will take place on 1 March 2021 from 12:00- 13:30 P.M.

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