30th May is the first-ever #InternationalDayOfPotato !

🥔Potatoes are a staple crop that can contribute to #FoodSecurity and create livelihood opportunities.

🥔They are nutrient-rich, providing vitamins, minerals and dietary fibre.

Learn more 👉 fao.org/international-…

From #Foresight to Field: Explore regional & multistakholder perspectives in #agrifoodsystems !

Contribute to FAO & CIRAD’s foresight report, shaping the future of agrifood tech & innovation.

Submissions open until 3 June 2024 🌍🌱 #AgInnovation

👉fao.org/fsnforum/call-…

📢Save the date!

'Restoration for a #BetterEnvironment ' webinar on #WorldEnvironmentDay

Discover innovative restoration efforts across Asia🌏

🗓️5 June 2024
🕐13.00-15.00 (GMT+7)

Register👉shorturl.at/uChmc

#WorldEnvironmentDay #RestorationEfforts

Digitalization is reshaping our world. Scaling up new, high‑impact, digital-based & data-driven solutions can help address the current crises. Food and Agriculture Organization will continue to work with partners to leverage digital technologies to transform our agrifood systems to achieve #SDGs & #4Betters .

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are more vulnerable to natural disasters and often rely on imports due to limited natural resources. 🏝️

🎥 Here are 5⃣ ways Food and Agriculture Organization is helping #SIDS achieve food security 👇

#SIDS 4 #SmallIslands

⬇️5 benefits of sustainable beekeeping🐝

#SaveTheBees

🔴 LIVE IN FIVE!

Join Food and Agriculture Organization for a webinar

Overcoming barriers to implementing biocontrol for invasive plants and invertebrates in the Asia-Pacific Region

🗓️ Monday 27 May 2024
⏰ 13:00 AEST (3:00 UTC)

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In Bangladesh where 75% of poultry farmers are women, emerging diseases pose a threat to their livelihoods due to lack of vaccination.

This transformative Food and Agriculture Organization initiative funded by USAID Global Health is empowering women vaccinators who are driving change in 🇧🇩.

🔊 bit.ly/3UZN7ZA

.Food and Agriculture Organization, with support from EU Civil Protection & Humanitarian Aid 🇪🇺, acted early before the peak of El Niño in Isabela province, Philippines, to mitigate the impact on farmers. Learn more 👇via @dswdserves.

Check out FAO Philippines Representative Lionel Dabbadie discussing #AnticipatoryAction and #SocialProtection ! 👇

Thanks to EU Civil Protection & Humanitarian Aid 🇪🇺 for the support.

2024 is the @‌UN International #YearofCamelids , but why camelids specifically?

For starters, they have the potential to:

🐫support food security and nutrition
🦙 reduce levels of extreme poverty
🐪 support sustainable livelihoods

It’s time to recognize their value!

#IYC2024

Biodiversity is the thread that connects us all. At Food and Agriculture Organization, we will continue to work with Members to protect and restore biodiversity, ensure #FoodSecurity and diversity and achieve the #4Betters . This #BiodiveristyDay , let's do our part in the Biodiversity Plan.

📢Digital Gateway Opened!

The new Resource Centre by the EU @EU #EU Tweeting for Charity!-funded EU Funded UN Joint STREIT PNG Programme elevates education and market connectivity in Sepik, Papua New Guinea.

🔖Read more👉bit.ly/4bRlTtP

Read the latest OP-ED by Food and Agriculture Organization Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific, Jong-Jin Kim, published in the Hindustan Times👇

#BiodiversityDay

On #InternationalTeaDay , Food and Agriculture Organization spotlights the role of women in the sector and their significant contributions!

🗞️FAO Press Release: bit.ly/3Kf6LKZ

#TeaDay

Tea is not just a drink, but a global heritage. #TeaDay is an occasion to renew our commitment to working together to finding concrete solutions, with a special focus on empowering women & youth in the tea industry, ensuring green production and achieving the #4Betters . #SDGs

Celebrating International #BiodiversityDay with funding for new Food and Agriculture Organization projects in the Pacific!

FAO will implement these projects in Palau & Samoa with financing from Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF) of Global Environment Facility (GEF)

🗞️Press Release: bit.ly/4dMICJd

#PartOfThePlan

🍵Good moments?
🫖 Boiling water?
🐝Beekeeping?
👩‍🌾Gardening?

What memories does tea bring to you?

This #TeaDay , Waris Ahluwalia & his mother Darshan & @DannySangra join Food and Agriculture Organization to raise awareness about the importance of tea & honour women around the world from crop to cup!

The Pacific island states of Samoa and Palau will benefit from a new wave of global funding to help countries protect and prosper from #biodiversity . FAO Pacific will implement the projects with finance from the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund #GBFF Global Environment Facility (GEF). #BiodiversityDay

.Food and Agriculture Organization, and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Royal University of Agriculture, are conducting the Regional Broiler Farmer Field School Master Trainer & Facilitator Trainings (BFFS) in Cambodia (20 May–15 July) to build capacity for BFFS rollout &implementation in Asia.