Today is #WorldCitiesDay !

More than 50% of the 🌎’s population lives in urban areas and this is expected to reach nearly 75% by 2050.

In an urbanizing world, we need to strengthen our #foodsystems and ensure they are sustainable!

5 eating habits that are good for us 👇

🍅Eat plenty of veggies & fruits
🍔Watch your intake of fats
🍩Cut back on sugar
🍽️Reduce salt
💧 Drink lots of water

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#HealthyDiets #SDG3 #SDGs

❤️Food is life.
⚕️Food is health.
💪Food is energy.
🌍Food is culture.
🍲Food is nutrition.

Leading a healthy lifestyle is everyone's responsibility. Our actions are our future.

#WorldFoodDay #HealthyDiets

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Today is #WorldFoodDay ! No matter who you are, what you do or where you live, we all should have access to a healthy and affordable diet.

Our actions are our future.

🔴Now live over on Facebook: presenting #SOFA2019

Join us to discuss an issue that involves and affects us all: #foodloss and #foodwaste with Food and Agriculture Organization's Yasmina Bouziane and Andrea Cattaneo.

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The prevalence of undernourishment is around 17.5% in Small Island Developing States, compared to a 10.7% global average.

Food security and nutrition must be a priority in #SIDS . They can count on Food and Agriculture Organization’s support.

Congratulations Leonidas Nzigiyimpa on winning the well-deserved Wangari Maathai Award!

Thank you for your commitment & outstanding contributions to improving forests & the lives of Burundian indigenous peoples, women & youth.

We need more champions like you!

#ClimateAction

“Hello Global Citizens, are you with us? By 2030 we must deliver on the #GlobalGoals :
-No Hunger,
-No Poverty,
-Quality Education, and
-We must tackle climate change.

We must deliver for all.”

#UNGA President Tijjani Muhammad-Bande at the #GlobalCitizen Festival in New York.

Having Member States’ support and buy-in is🔑 for the success of Food and Agriculture Organization's work.

The new Hand-in-Hand Initiative, launched by Food and Agriculture OrganizationDG at #UNGA aims at enabling a new vision for a more dynamic and innovative FAO, and strengthening North-South partnerships.

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.FAO in Uganda’s Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus project & Mountain Partnership Products initiative are among the top 25 initiatives of @expo2020dubai Best Practices Programme.

The competition called for projects that provide solutions to the 🌍's biggest challenges.

#UNGA #SDGs

Check out the new Food and Agriculture Organization Urban Food Actions platform to learn more about urban food policies and practices that are leading cities towards sustainable development 👉 buff.ly/2mOSwFd

#UNGA #GlobalGoals

Adapting the agricultural sectors to the impacts of climate change requires 'action based on science,' - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu.

The three important components of change:

💡 innovation
💰 investment
👥 inclusiveness

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#UNGA #ClimateAction #NatureBasedSolutions

It was exciting to listen to the many young activists & change makers at the United Nations #YouthClimateSummit .

I’m inspired by your aspirations, ideas and commitment.

Only through our collective action, We can achieve the #SDGs by 2030.

#UNGA #GlobalGoals

.Food and Agriculture Organization initiatives are igniting young people’s enthusiasm for new technologies and innovation to 👇

🔸Take #ClimateAction
🔸Transform the way we grow food
🔸Protect our environment

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#UNGA #Youth2030

Conflict is one of the key drivers of food insecurity. Now more than 820 million people are going hungry.

There can be no food security without peace, and no lasting peace without food security. They are two sides of the same coin.

#PeaceDay #FAO4Peace #SDG17

👧 Are you between the age of 5 and 19? 👦

✅ Use your imagination & create a poster that illustrates what needs to be done to make #healthydiets

🖌️ Share your #WorldFoodDay poster here 👉 buff.ly/2Av3LGm

Innovation comes in many forms.

Innovative family farmers, like Anastasia, are a great example of how thinking outside the box can help bring success all year round.

#AgInnovation #GlobalGoals

FAO has over 40 years of experience as a leading promotor and facilitator of #SouthSouth & Triangular Cooperation

Learn how partnerships can further strengthen and scale-up #SSTC to achieve the #Agenda2030 .

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Healthy animals help people live healthy lives.

Food and Agriculture Organization & The Gov't of Japan are expanding animal health care services for drought-affected livestock keepers in Afghanistan.

I am pleased to see that thanks to this project we have already trained over 1000 animal health workers.
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Cases of cholera have risen in #Yemen .

With freshwater extremely scarce, farmers in Sana'a have had to resort to using water of dubious quality.

Watch to find out how Food and Agriculture Organization and Japan are partnering to fight cholera on Yemen's farms 👇

#TICAD7 #WWWeek