The PSS Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) team is excited to announce the launch of its newly designed webpages. The webpage has a fresh look [...]

In this episode, over 282 million people in 59 countries suffered acute food insecurity in 2023, according to the Global Report on Food Crises; FAO warns about the food insecurity [...]

In this episode, high levels of acute food insecurity in Honduras; FAO’s Regional Conference for Europe; and Earth Map receives the Google impact award.

Deteriorating food insecurity in Haiti, The King Hassan II Great World Water Prize; and an updated action plan for mainstreaming biodiversity. 

In this episode, a new report urges immediate action to prevent famine in Gaza and the Sudan; world fisheries and aquaculture production reaches a record high; and the FPI [...]

The Committee on Agriculture (COAG), established in 1971, is one of FAO’s Governing Bodies providing overall policy and regulatory guidance on issues relating to agriculture (including livestock), food safety, [...]

Fish biomass faces steep falls by end of century under high-emissions scenario

Social protection and decent jobs are cornerstones of agrifood systems transformation, but they require strong political commitment

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is organizing its first-ever Global Conference on Animal Health Innovation, Reference Centres and Vaccines from 23 to 25 September at FAO headquarters [...]

In this workshop, we will explore the role of innovation in supporting traditional practices that conserve agricultural heritage systems.  

Traditional agricultural practices, often rooted in the local communities and the knowledge [...]

In this episode, FAO calls for urgent funding to prevent further starvation and suffering in Haiti; FAO’s Director-General underscores that the world should step up efforts and cooperation to tackle [...]

Indonesia and Sao Tome and Principe receive their first designations from FAO along with Austria’s second system

In this episode, FAO welcomed the 'Pact for the Future' in New York, International Food Loss and Waste Day, and an atlas to combat livestock disease.

This year’s #WorldFoodDay theme, “Right to foods for a better life and a better future” spotlights the importance of diversity, nutrition, affordability, accessibility as well as the safety and [...]

The European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission (EIFAAC) is dedicated to the sustainable development and responsible management of European inland fisheries and aquaculture. In line with the [...]

The monthly FAO publications updates produced by the Publications Branch of the FAO Office of Communications are available in English, French and Chinese.

The newsletters highlight key publications available [...]

In this episode, FAO urges immediate access to Gaza; the UN Climate Summit ; the fourth annual World Food Forum 

Your feedback on the First Continental Congress, Douglas MacArthur and England's tangled history

Riders--who will descend in inflatable rafts of four rather than alone--will reach speeds of more than 65 miles per hour

The firebrand politician once quipped that she would like to be remembered as a woman who ‘had guts’

Melting permafrost is leading to more frequent rockfalls and landslides on the iconic peak and other areas of the Alps

Yet another reason to fight light pollution

Sometimes, in fact, nature is stranger than fiction

Sometimes, in fact, nature is stranger than fiction

Human beings and chimps share as much as 98 percent of their DNA. If our species are so similar, can chimps be genetically engineered to be more like us?

Sometimes, in fact, nature is stranger than fiction

The answer may lie between being ticklish and having a sense of humor

The Smithsonian Castle is recreated in gingerbread by Charles Froke, executive pastry chef of Washington's Four Seasons (Produced by: Abby Callard)

Sometimes, in fact, nature is stranger than fiction

Sometimes, in fact, nature is stranger than fiction

Why are we equipped with this curious modification? Find out in this one-minute video, where Ask Smithsonian host Eric Schulze gives us the info on our wrinkled digits.

The appendix may not be as useless as commonly thought.

Our host, Eric Schulze, has the answer

Christopher Gray | Smithsonian Magazine’s 2016 American Ingenuity Award Winner for Youth Achievement Christopher Gray is the founder and CEO of Scholly, the groundbreaking web and mobile app that matches current or future college students who need financial support with scholarships that can help them. Scholly has been downloaded 850,000 times and has connected college students with some $50 million in scholarships. Philadelphia-based Gray, an ABC “Shark Tank” winner and recipient of a $100,000 grant from philanthropist Steve Case’s Rise of the Rest competition, sees his digital platform as a 21st-century tool for helping countless young Americans achieve their college dreams without piling on crushing debt.

How will populations change in the United States over the next 40 years? Interview by Terence Monmaney Special Thanks to Joel Kotkin

From soil to soup (Smithsonian.com). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/passion-for-tomatoes.html

Through painstaking work, photographer Drew Gardner transformed Elizabeth Jenkins-Sahlin into her ancestor, a famous women’s rights activist. (Credit: Drew Gardner)

Nearly 300,000 people gather every Memorial Day to witness the legendary Indianapolis 500, one of the greatest spectacles in U.S. racing

In 1925, an Alaskan adventurer and his trusted Siberian husky completed a grueling 600-mile journey across the frozen plains. Their exploits would end up saving the lives of 2,000 people.

Who’s afraid of the dark? Our Ask Smithsonian host Eric Schulze is here to explain the illuminating science behind night vision.

From This Object in History, aired on @SmithsonianChannel

Chris Mah, researcher at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in the invertebrate zoology department, describes the characteristics of different sea star species observed on the final dive of the Laulima O Ka Moana expedition. (Credit: Video courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2017 Laulima O Ka Moana)

Snowball the cockatoo bobs his head and lifts his leg to the beats of the Backstreet Boys' "Everbody"

The American Ingenuity Award winner is giving new hope to thousands of young people in America's prisons

High-speed video captures the unique ability of a leaping praying mantis to control its spin in mid-air and precisely land on a target.