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The path to #HealthyDiets starts long before food reaches our🍽️. From agricultural investments to trade & health policies, decisions across sectors shape food availability, affordability & choice 🥗
Learn more from @FAOSocioEcon Director Lynnette Neufeld
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Celebrating coffee and its farmers : Kenyan and Rwandan farmers improve production for better earnings and for coffee lovers worldwide
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#CoffeeDay
Learn how @FAO is partnering with Georgia hazelnut farmers to reduce losses, protect harvests, and prioritize food safety.
🧺bit.ly/4xNMRNg
#FoodLoss #FLWDay
Speaking at the #COFO28 #YearofWomanFarmer side event, Women at the heart of bioeconomy: weaving innovation in bio-based fashion, @MaximoTorero stressed that women are 🗝️ to the sustainable bioeconomy.
Missed our event & fashion show? Watch here.👇
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Closing gender gaps in agrifood systems could lift 45 million people out of food insecurity.
As #CFS54 convenes this week, see how @FAO is promoting the uptake of the #CFSGenderGuidelines to move us closer to more equitable agrifood systems for all
👉 bit.ly/3UGltDv
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Pastoralism is more than a livelihood, it is a bridge between the past and the future. 🐂👩🌾
In this video, pastoralists reflect on growing up in herding families and what inspired them to choose this path.
Watch, share and join #IYRP2026 ⬇️
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.@FAOGeneva will join the 2026 #Aid4Trade Global Review:
🔹Trade & Taste Corner showcasing Special Agricultural Products from the #1Country1Product initiative
🔹A success story from the Cook Islands
🔹WTO Fish Fund session
📅 29–30 Oct
📍WTO hq
🔗 bit.ly/4yxUVSW
Celebrating coffee and its farmers : Kenyan and Rwandan farmers improve production for better earnings and for coffee lovers worldwide
☕️fao.org/newsroom/story/celeb…
#CoffeeDay
🔥 Hot off the presses!🔥
Handbook on Gender Equality in Agrifood Systems: A Resource for Parliamentarians
Download your copy today👇
📘doi.org/10.4060/ce1970en
#YearofWomanFarmers #IYWF2026
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📝 | #SafeFood production enables market access and productivity, which drives economic development and poverty alleviation, especially in rural areas.
#Codex | #FoodSafety
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What can a cup of herbal tea tell us about biodiversity, women’s empowerment and rural livelihoods? 🍵
Discover this new @FAO case study from Armenia on how sustainable herbal tea production can benefit communities and ecosystems 👉 doi.org/10.4060/ce0966en
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🐟 | Behind every tuna steak, behind every oyster, behind every slice of smoked salmon...
...there's a lot more science than meets the eye. 🔬🐟
👉 Meet the Fishmonger and explore #FoodSafety through a whole new lens.
✅🐟 ➡️ bit.ly/47Ud2r6
#Codex | @FAOfish
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☘️ 👨🎓🌱 How can #SchoolMeals help preserve Indigenous knowledge, strengthen local food systems and support biodiversity?
🌎 At the UN Committee on World Food Security (#CFS54), School Meals Coalition government representatives from Brazil and Mexico, along with partner organizations, discussed how Indigenous knowledge and food systems can strengthen school meal policies, support local production, promote culturally appropriate menus, and create opportunities for Indigenous producers through school meals.
Highlights and key quotes 👇
Great to see this training underway for smallscale maize 🌽 producers in the Dry Corridor. Follow @FAOGuartemala 🇬🇹 to learn more👇
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Did you know that milk is the third biggest supplier of protein and the fifth largest provider of calories globally? 🥛
Out of the 570 million farm holdings worldwide, more than one out of four keep at least one milk animal, including cows, buffaloes, camels, goats and sheep.
Have you read the 2026 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report?
Download YOUR #SOFI2026 📙 today👇
📙doi.org/10.4060/cd8306en
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"The value of pomegranates is not measured by the size of the harvest,but by the impact they create throughout the value chain through income generation to farmers,women & youth." Dr.@thaer_yaseen, @FAO Rep. in 🇯🇴,speaking at the opening of the 18th Pomegranate Festival. 🌱
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#PublicaciónFAO
🔵Descarga “Caminos hacia el empoderamiento” y descubre cómo organizaciones de productores forestales y agrícolas de Ecuador promueven la igualdad de género y la inclusión social con el apoyo del Mecanismo para Bosques y Fincas de la FAO.
doi.org/10.4060/ce2043en
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As part of the Joint SDG Fund programme, a Tajikistan Government delegation visited #KazAgroFarm2026, one of Kazakhstan’s leading agricultural exhibitions, to explore innovative solutions & technologies for more efficient, resilient & sustainable agrifood systems.
#FoodSystems
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🇱🇸 In Lesotho, @FAO & partners of the Sustainable Poultry & Feed Initiative for Africa are working to advance poultry & feed systems to create jobs, improve nutrition & strengthen rural livelihoods.
A collaborative effort to unlock opportunities for smallholders, women & youth.
