Thank you all for agreeing to talk with us about your experiences with the collaborative relationship between FAO and the Ghent University. It is very interesting to hear from you, Professor Carl Lachat, from you Giles Hanley Cook as PhD student, researcher and now working at FAO and from ...

A number of interactions by FAO experts took place in Brussels last month, both virtually and in-person.

Vincent Martin, Director of FAO's Office of Innovation, participated on 5 July at a panel debate with the title “New Genomic Techniques EU Proposal: legal framework and enforcement ch...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United N...

The UN Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment (UNFSS+2) closed on Wednesday at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United N...

Around 2000 participants from over 160 countries, including over 20 Heads of State and Government, will attend the UN Food Systems Summit+2 Stocktaking Moment.

18 July - FAO Brussels Director Raschad Al-Khafaji presented a summary of the latest developments in the area of food and agriculture and shared some of the upcoming activities of the FAO Brussels office at the Council Working Party on International Food and Agricultural Questions (AGRIFAO).

Over 122 million more people are facing hunger in the world since 2019 due to the pandemic and repeated weather shocks and conflicts, including the war in Ukraine, according to the latest 

12 July – The latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report, jointly published by five United Nations specialized agencies – FAO, IFAD, WFP, UNICE...

After re-electing QU Dongyu of China for a second term as Director-General of the Food and Ag...

High-level roundtables held on how to tackle water shortages and scarcity, as well as floods, during weeklong meeting of FAO’s highest governing body.

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, re-elected on Sunday for a second term at the head of the Organization, delivered today his opening statement at the 43rd Session of FAO Conference (1-7 July), in which he stressed that it is tim...

Rome - QU Dongyu was today re-elected to a second term as Director...

Every month, our Liaison Office coordinates visits by FAO experts from around the world to Brussels and supports their interactions and contributions at events held by our partners. The June missions included:

A visit by Coordinator of the

This is the Interview of the Month of June with Corinna Hawkes, FAO Director of the Food Systems and Food Safety Division

Congratulations on your new assignment Corinna! New in this position but definitely not new to food and nutrition. Before asking you how do you plan to support th...

The 43rd session of the FAO Conference (July 1-7) begins this Saturday at the Organization’s headquarters in ...

Rome - Ministers, Vice-Ministers and other high-level representati...

Upon invitation by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), FAO’s Land and Water Division Director LI Lifeng participated at the eighth Meeting of the EU-Africa Economic and Social Stakeholders' Network.

During his intervention Li cautioned that the linkages between water, agri...

FAO has joined the efforts of the upcoming  SDG Forum Belgium - the first multi-stakeholder forum on the SDGs in the Benelux. The Forum includes 18  organizations from the sustainable development sector, including the Belgian Federal Institute for Sustainable Development and strives ...

 

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) Permanent Group on Sustainable Food Systems organized a session on the EU's contribution to the UN Food Systems Stocktaking Moment. 
The keynote speakers were Stefanos Fotiou, FAO Director of the Office of Sustainable Development Goals and...