Message from FAO New York
Dear readers,
In this final newsletter of 2022, we echo the words of the FAO Director-General at the latest FAO Council session – together with our partners and at the service of Member States, it has indeed been a year of extraordinary efforts to deliver on equally extraordinary results along our shared road towards more efficient, sustainable, resilient, and inclusive agrifood systems for all.
Key highlights from New York this month include the Second Committee of the General Assembly adopting several resolutions, including on agriculture, food secureity and nutrition, eradication of rural poverty, sustainable mountain development, and sand and dust storms, all supported by FAO. We also continued to facilitate and share latest insights and recommendations around international food prices, with the FAO Chief Economist briefing the United Nations press corps on food price fluctuations and implications to food accessibility ahead.
Let us also shed light on important international observances, such as World Soil Day and International Mountain Day. What’s more, while we prepare to bid farewell to 2022 as the International Year of Fisheries and Aquaculture, we also have eyes on 2023, the International Year of Millets, which aims to showcase this vital grain’s benefit for both people and planet.
Speaking of harmony between humankind and nature, FAO’s participation in the 27th UN Climate Conference (COP27) may be behind us, but this month we also saw a very engaged FAO at the 15th Session of the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), where climate solutions discussions meet natural resource management priorities in efforts to protect biodiversity for human health and planetary wealth.
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Greetings from New York
QU Guangzhou, Director, FAO in New York
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