During FAO Director-General QU Dongyu's visit to Cornell University, he met with Benjamin Z Houlton 🌍 and other faculty members from Cornell UniversityCALS, the School of Integrative Plant Science, and Cornell UniversityGlobal, where he learnt about their research programs and work to help transform agrifood systems and protect #PlantHealth .

Pleased to visit Cornell University & learn about the exciting research carried out ranging from horticulture & plant pathology to crop sustainability, AI & #AgInnovation . Research, Science & Innovation are vital for the transformation of agrifood systems. #4Betters

Integrating sustainable pastoralism, forestry & agriculture is vital to achieve land degradation neutrality, Food and Agriculture Organization’s Malgorzata Buszko-Briggs (@MalgoBriggs) tells #UNFF19 side event on sustainable land restoration ahead of UN Land and Drought #COP16 in #SaudiArabia

#UNited4Land Food and Agriculture OrganizationNewYork

At the side-event on youth-led innovation at the #STI Forum, Food and Agriculture Organization's Vincent Martin encouraged young leaders to apply to World Food Forum's:

👉 Transformative Research Challenge 🔗 bit.ly/4bamSVO
👉 Startup Innovation Awards 🔗 bit.ly/4dy3PXm

#Tech4SDGs

🌱🏆 NOW LAUNCHING: The WFF Startup Innovation Awards, powered by ExtremeTechChallenge, are on a mission to spotlight and support the trailblazing innovators and entrepreneurs leveraging technology to revolutionize agrifood systems.

👉 Learn more and apply: world-food-forum.org/innovation-lab…

~1/3 of agricultural lands are degraded. Restoring them would revive productivity, enrich biodiversity, enhance food security & help sequester greenhouse gases, Food and Agriculture Organization’s @MariaLenaSemedo tells #UNFF19 side event on #EcosystemRestoration

#GenerationRestoration

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🚨LIVE IN FIVE!🚨

Join Food and Agriculture Organization & UN Environment Programme online for a #UNFF19 side event on the transformative potential of #EcosystemRestoration

Sustainable horizons: showcasing progress in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏰ 13:15-14:30 EDT

👉 bit.ly/44mqly4

📢 Starting tomorrow is the 9th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the #SDGs !

Food and Agriculture Organization will be speaking at and organizing several side-events, contributing to the review of SDGs, focusing on #STI .

👉 Find out more: fao.org/new-york/event…

#Tech4SDGs

Plants, animals, insects, microbes and their environment...

Biodiversity is vital to global food production and essential for human well-being.

Discover what @fao is doing to protect #biodiversity & safeguard our future:
👉fao.org/biodiversity/o…

📣 CALL FOR YOUTH SIDE EVENTS AT THE WORLD FOOD FORUM 2024!

Want to amplify youth voices at the WFF? Apply to organize a youth side event at the World Food Forum flagship event (14-18 Oct) in Rome!

📅Apply by 24 May
🔗Register bit.ly/4bx9xa9

#WorldFoodForum #WFF2024

During his joint statement as Chair of #CPForests , Food and Agriculture Organization's Zhimin Wu emphasized that the Collaborative Partnership on Forests is committed to accelerate impactful joint actions to achieve #GlobalForestGoals .

🔗Link to CPF Call to Action: bit.ly/4btQgWK

#UNFF19

From cutting-edge drone and satellite technology for forest monitoring, to sustainable substitutes derived from trees for plastics, building materials & fabrics, innovation can help us

✅ restore
✅ protect
✅ manage, &
✅ use our forests sustainably.

The war in Sudan has severely affected the country’s cereal production.

As millions go hungry, Food and Agriculture Organization is on the ground helping farming communities to avert famine, but further international support is urgently needed.

Thanks to funding from USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, results from round 7 of the Food and Agriculture Organization #DataInEmergencies household monitoring survey in #DRCongo have been released.

Learn more about the impacts of shocks on livelihoods and #FoodSecurity here 👉 bit.ly/4a9M4KM

#InvestInHumanity

We can prevent this El Niño event from turning into a disaster.

What are we waiting for?

Beth Bechdol and I raised the alarm at UN Spokesperson noon briefing.

Join Food and Agriculture Organization IUCN Global Environment Facility (GEF) Griffith University & #WildHeritage for a #UNFF19 event

The need to strengthen conservation of #PrimaryForests through partnership enhancement & coordination of support: #CPForests member discussion

🗓️ Tues 7 May
⏰ 13:15-14:30 EDT
🔗 ow.ly/kLtb50RwLM8

Healthy animals are key for global food and health security, nutrition, and livelihoods.

Strengthening #veterinary services improves livestock systems, boosting productivity, efficiency, resilience, and sustainability.

👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️🌍🥼🐄

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The #CPForests Communicators Network launched a new initiative at #UNFF19 today to encourage greater use of products made from sustainably grown wood as a key strategy for combating #ClimateChange .

Together we can #GrowTheSolution !

👉 bit.ly/3JQpHPZ

#CPForests #UNFF19

How we respond to the #wildfire challenge is of crucial importance. We need to shift from reactive responses to proactive measures centered on prevention & preparedness through integrated fire management, Food and Agriculture Organization’s Zhimin Wu tells #UNFF19 event

sustainableforestry
#GlobalFireHub Food and Agriculture OrganizationNewYork

Sustainable wood means better livelihoods, increased standing-forest value and less deforestation

Together we can #GrowTheSolution with sustainable wood!

#CPForests #SDG1 #SDG1 5