Events

The Fifth Annual Gathering of the signatory cities of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP) will take place from 7-9 October, organized by the city of Montpellier in collaboration with the MUFPP Secretariat.  The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact was signed on the 15 October 2015 in Milan by more than...

Digital technologies are profoundly changing our societies. They act as a catalyst for development and, if harnessed, can help reverse negative trends in the Eastern European region. Still, good practices are fragmented, and rooted to a particular, often local, context which does not permit the region to fully benefit from...

The recent approval of the Decade of Family Farming by the United Nations Assembly offers an extraordinary opportunity to contribute significantly to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in an inclusive, collaborative and coherent manner, taking into account the multidimensionality of family farming. During the Regional Launch of...

This workshop is being held in Bangkok, Thailand, from July 30-31, 2019, with the objective of discussing how to put the action plan for the ASEAN Guidelines for Responsible Investment in Food, Agriculture and Forestry into practice. The workshop is being organized by the ASEAN Secretariat, the Food and Agriculture Organization...

Background On 20 December 2017, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted resolution (A/RES/72/239), by which it declared 2019-2028 to be the Decade of Family Farming (Decade). FAO and IFAD actively supported the campaign leading to the resolution and have been called upon by the General Assembly to co-lead the implementation...