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03/12/2025

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today launched its first-ever Global Emergency and Resilience Appeal, calling for a more coherent and urgent approach to rising ...

03/12/2025

The 8th edition of the Copa and Cogeca Innovation Award for Women Farmers, held at...

02/12/2025

Watch Hubert Boulet, Coordinator of the Sustainable Wildlife Management Program (SWM Program), present the impact of the initiative in 15 participating countries during ...

02/12/2025

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today launched the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP 2026), a global campaign aimed at raising awareness of and enhancing the vital con...

02/12/2025

A new history of FAO explores 80 years of food and agriculture and the work of the Organization to continue to shape agrifood systems in a changing world. Through words and photographs, FAO at 80: the pursuit of better food for all chronicles the Organization's milestones over the course of it...

01/12/2025
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 
01/12/2025

The Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU, in collaboration with the European Commission’s DG SANTE, convened a high-level conference in Brussels titled “Welfare of Farm Animals in the EU of 2050 – A Pathway to the Future.” The event brought together policymakers, industry leaders, c...

01/12/2025

Feeding a projected 10 billion people by 2050 will require bold and smarter choices in how the world manages its land, soil and water, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warns in a new flagship report.

The latest edition of 

28/11/2025

Although fisheries sustainability in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea remains a source of concern, the percentage of overfished stocks has dropped to its lowest level in a decade, a milestone that coincides with aquaculture’s rapid expansion as a major source of aquatic foods in the region,...

27/11/2025

The EU-FAO partnership is at the forefront of advancing circular economy practices in Sri Lanka’s agrifood sector through the EU-funded Circular Economy in the Food Sector (CIRCULAR) project.  

FAO presented the CIRCULAR project at a rec...

26/11/2025

On 26 November 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Committee Linking Entrepreneurship-Agriculture-Development (COLEAD) launched the Phytosanitary Legislation E-Learning Toolkit.  

This digital resource was developed to...

26/11/2025

A Landscape of Water, Life and Barriers to Women's Leadership 

In Pursat Province, where floating villages stretch across the Tonle Sap floodplain, the well-being of entire communities depends on healthy inland fisheries. Yet for ye...

25/11/2025

In the plains of Aweil in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, with goats and sheep dotting the horizon, it’s easy to understand why livestock means everything here. These small ruminants serve as the main sources of food, income, and savings for pastoralist families in the region, but they are vulnerable...

25/11/2025

Senior diplomats from the European Union and Denmark have commended the tangible progress achieved in the Sepik region following a high-level field mission to observe the impact of the EU-STREIT PNG Programme.

H.E. Erika Hasznos, European Union Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, and H.E. St...

24/11/2025

As the global population continues to increase, fisheries and aquaculture have a vital role to play in securing a sustainable future for our region.  

Join us for the launch of the 2025 edition of The State of Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries (SoMFi) on 28 Novemb...

24/11/2025

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Albania Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development are working closely together to scale up efforts to equip the country for the effective implementation of the European Union LEADER measure under the instrument for p...

21/11/2025

The Nansen Programme is the longest-running fisheries development initiative of FAO and Norway, dedicated to sustainable fisheries management for improved food security. 

Through fisheries research and management, strengthening capacities and fostering collaboration, the P...

21/11/2025

Sustainable and resilient agrifood systems are essential for achieving the Paris Agreement targets on climate change while ensuring food security and nutrition for present and future gen...

20/11/2025

Held under the theme “Consumers Come First: Advancing Consumer Protection through Research,” the 10th Annual Conference of Safe Food Advocacy Europe (SAFE) gathered policymakers, researchers, civil society representatives, and industry experts to discuss the future of food safety, sustain...

19/11/2025

Forests are at the heart of COP30 discussions in the Brazilian Amazon city of Belém. But less is said about how forests provide a vital support system for agriculture. Promoting synergies between the two is therefore essential for sustainable agrifood system transformation in the face of clima...