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FAO showcases its Work on Youth Engagement and Leadership in Agrifood Systems
27/01/2026
Youth leadership in transforming the agrifood systems was at the centre of exchanges held during a three‑day mission to Brussels of Mr Kazuki Kitaoka, Director of FAO’s Office of Youth and Women (OYW).
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Training on innovative kitchen gardens is helping vegetables and skills blossom in a Kenyan refugee camp
26/01/2026
Inside the Hagadera Refugee Camp located in Dadaab, eastern Kenya sits Mariam’s kitchen garden. This camp of semi-permanent corrugated metal houses and canvas tents has been her home for the last 19 years. She came here at 34 years old due to political unrest in her home country of Somalia, an...
FAO strengthens food security across Haiti and the Dominican Republic through emergency agriculture and regional agrifood system protection
26/01/2026
A high-level Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) mission to Haiti and the Dominican Republic this week underscored a central reality for the Caribbean: food security is a shared regional challenge, requiring both life-saving, emergency agricultural action to respond t...
FAO Brussels invites partners to join in 2026 International Days and Years commemorations
21/01/2026
Across the United Nations system, International Days and Years have become powerful global platforms to highlight the world’s most pressing challenges, including food security and nutrition, equality, health, and environmental protection. Today, the UN marks more than 21...
Global Forum for Food and Agriculture puts agriculture at the center of water policy, recognizing FAO’s leadership
19/01/2026
Agriculture ministers from more than 60 countries meeting at the 2026 Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) agreed that addressing water scarcity and competing uses requires placing agriculture at the core of water policy and governance. In the
New FAO guidance on assessing food safety risks related to environmental inhibitors
19/01/2026
Global Emergency and Resilience Appeal 2026: A Turning Point for Food Security
19/01/2026
Acute food insecurity has tripled since 2016 to nearly 300 million people, while humanitarian food sector funding has fallen back toward 2016 levels. Every dollar now has to achieve far more.
Agriculture offers the strongest return: on average, each dollar invested in a...
FAO welcomes new treaty on safeguarding marine biological diversity in international waters
19/01/2026
FAO and Norway launch a USD 4 million project to support rural communities in frontline areas of Ukraine
13/01/2026
Rural women in Georgia: Insights from the Country Gender Assessment
09/01/2026
Sopo, a 31-year-old from Tsalka, is taking her first steps towards building a small cheese business with her mother.
“I’m planning to start a small cheese-making business,” she says. “Step by step, my mother and I are laying the foundations for a family-run business focused on quality. S...
FAO agricultural voucher system boosts food security and promotes protection from sexual exploitation and abuse
08/01/2026
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Government of Zimbabwe funded by the French Government, coordinated the Agricultural Voucher System as part of the Nourish and Thrive: Inclusive and Sustainable Nutrition and Livelihoods Init...
Celebrating Milestones: Watch the FAO Brussels End-of-Year 2025 Video
07/01/2026
The FAO Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium looks back to 2025: a year of engagement, partnership, and impact.
This end-of-year video highlights key moments from 2025, as FAO marked its 80th anniversary and reinforced its commitment to transforming agrifood systems and end...
Ukraine’s agriculture: FAO sets out a three-year emergency and early recovery plan
06/01/2026
FAO Optiwaste: Helping organizations identify, measure, and reduce food waste across food services
01/01/2026
In 2022, an estimated 1.05 billion tons of food were wasted worldwide. Restaurants, canteens, and the broader food service sector accounted ...
West Bank: 72,000 families urgently require emergency agricultural assistance, new FAO survey finds
24/12/2025
More than 72,000 farming and herding families in the West Bank – nearly two-thirds of all agricultural families – urgently require emergency agricultural assistance, according to a...
Global forest products trade and production show signs of recovery in 2024
24/12/2025
After a sharp decline in 2023, the global forest products sector saw signs of stabilization in 2024, according to Global forest products facts and figures 2024 , released today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Natio...
FAO welcomes UN’s Decision to establish an International Day of the Mediterranean Diet
19/12/2025
UN agencies welcome news that famine has been pushed back in the Gaza Strip, but warn fragile gains could be reversed without increased and sustained support
19/12/2025
The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis for Gaza confirms that no areas of the Strip are currently classified in fam...
FAO-led projects to make agriculture resilient and sustainable in support of 1 million people
17/12/2025
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has approved eight projects led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) worth nearly $60 million designed to help seven countries improve their management ...
FAO Brussels and Belgian Federal Public Service Economy host event on food inflation and price monitoring
16/12/2025
The FAO Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium and the Belgian Federal Public Service (FPS) Economy brought together international organizations, national authorities, and experts to discuss food inflation and price monitoring, based on the findings of the State...