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Agrifood Systems Transformation at the heart of the Renewed Partnership between the Government of Flanders (Belgium) and Malawi
29/11/2023
Since 2007, the Regional Government of Flanders (Belgium) and Malawi have been working together in the agricultural field, with FAO involved as an implementing partner.
The latest Country Strategy Paper for the Flanders-Malawi Cooperation for 2024-2028 was launched in early Novembe...
FAO’s Statistical Yearbook 2023 goes live, highlights the impact of disasters on agriculture and cost of healthy diets
29/11/2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched today its annual Statistical Yearbook, covering the latest trends in the world’s agrifood systems and highlighting for t...
FAO at COP28: Agrifood systems solutions to shape climate agenda
27/11/2023
As the world grapples with the urgency of climate action, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will highlight at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference COP28 the unique potential of agrifoo...
Codex Alimentarius: 60-year milestone in food safety
27/11/2023
The global food standards body, the Codex Alimentarius Commission began...
Turning Tunisia’s magnificent olives into liquid gold
24/11/2023
Olive production dates back thousands of years and continues to play a vital role in Tunisia's economy to this day, with olive groves covering about a third of the North African country's arable land. However, while Tunisia ranks third among the top exporters of olive oil in the world, most of...
GIAHS: agriculture heritage at the heart of EU sustainable and territorial development
24/11/2023
The FAO Liaison Office in Brussels paid tribute to FAO’s Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) flagship initiative with an in-person event to celebrate the achievements of the programme and its crucial role in preserving traditional agricultural systems and revitalizing...
QU Dongyu: Science and innovation are at the core of FAO's efforts to fight hunger
20/11/2023
Fighting global hunger requires greater and better investments in science, technology and innovation to ensure that our agrifood systems are able to produce more with less while leaving no one behind, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) tol...
FAO Brussels Director exchanges views with the European Council of Young farmers (CEJA)
20/11/2023
FAO Brussels Director Raschad Al-Khafaji participated in an exchange of views with CEJA’s young farmers on the state of play of global agrifood systems and ways to transform them.
Why agrifood systems must be at the core of climate action: a COP28 preview with FAO climate expert
20/11/2023
As the world gears up for the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP28, in a year with soaring temperatures and progressive extreme weather events, attention is turning towards innovative solutions to address th...
The role of seeds in transforming agrifood systems under the spotlight
20/11/2023
The role of seeds in addressing global challenges, such as loss of biodiversity and climate change, and the need for greater variety in the world’s “food basket” of key crops has come into sharp focus amid multiple crises and will be at the core of discussions as the governing body of the trea...
How is antimicrobial resistance jeopardizing food security?
20/11/2023
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global threat of increasing concern to human and animal health. It also has implications for food safety, food security, and the economic well-being of millions of farming households.
In time for the World AMR Awareness Week, discover how FAO is ...
Sustainable Food Systems as Drivers for the Implementation of the SDGs – FAO at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
17/11/2023
FAO Brussels Director Raschad Al-Khafaji and World Food Forum (WFF) Head of Youth Action and Policy, Pramisha Thapaliya, participated in the Joint meeting of the Sustainable Development Observatory (SDO) and Permanent Study Group on Sustainable Food Systems (PSG) entitled “Sustainable foo...
Investment to restore Asia’s degraded forests and landscapes is critical to achieving global climate and biodiversity targets and safeguarding livelihoods
16/11/2023
Building momentum toward greater investment in Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) in Asia - involving both public and private sectors - is critical to meeting the challenges of climate change and securing millions of livelihoods across the region, an FLR investment forum heard today.
Sudan: FAO reaches one million farming households since the outbreak of conflict
15/11/2023
FAO promotes geographical indications for agrifood systems protection
14/11/2023
In countries of Europe and Central Asia, as well as globally, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) furthers the identification and registration of new geographical indications
Statement by the Director-General on the food security situation in Gaza
12/11/2023
I am profoundly distressed by the loss of lives and the human catastrophe unfolding due to the violence taking place in the Middle East, and most particularly in Gaza.
I join the Secretary-General, and my colleagues in the IASC in calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire to ease c...
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems: Andorra and Austria earn their first, while Asian countries get six new designations
10/11/2023
A pasture system in Andorra, hay milk in Austria, areas growing chestnuts, white ginger and waxberries in China, flood-spreading gardens and a walnut cultivating region in Iran and an all-female fishery in the Republic of Korea have become the latest additions to
Antimicrobials: Handle with care
10/11/2023
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today. Drug-resistant microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites can spread between and within animal, human, and plant populations and migrate through the environm...
New UN report: 43.2 million people suffer from hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the region has higher levels of overweight and obesity than the global estimate
09/11/2023
The new United Nations report, Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2023, states that 6.5% of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean suffers from hunger, or 43.2 million people.
Although this figure represents a slight improvement of 0.5 percentage points ov...