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On World Food Day 2024, QU Dongyu highlights that all people have the right to adequate foods
16/10/2024
FAO's Director-General calls on all of us to renew our commitment to building more efficient, more inclusive, more resilient, and more sustainable agrifood systems.
Read his opening statement of the World Food Day ceremony and presentation of the FAO Achievement Award.
On World Food Day: FAO Brussels at the Second Edition of the Rencontres des acteurs.rices de la transition alimentaire in Wallonia
16/10/2024
On World Food Day, the Sustainable Development Directorate of the Walloon Public Services organized the
World Food Day 2024: Right to foods for a better life and a better future
16/10/2024
WORLD FOOD DAY LIVE: Finding solutions to global hunger
16/10/2024
Everyone has a right to food. World Food Day, marked annually on 16 October, is being celebrated in more than 150 countries and over 50 languages. Stay tuned throughout the day as we take you to Rome for the main event at 10am local time at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organiza...
A DG INTPA InfoPoint on World Food Day: Team Europe committed to support healthy diets and nutrition
16/10/2024
On the occasion of World Food Day, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) organized an InfoPoint lunchtime seminar focusing on nutrition.
In his opening remarks at the event, Leonard Mizzi, Head of the Sustainable Ag...
World Food Forum: FAO Director-General opens Science and Innovation Forum 2024
16/10/2024
The third edition of the Science and Innovation Forum (SIF 2024) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) opened today under the th...
World Food Day 2024: Global ceremony highlights the right to nutritious safe and affordable foods
16/10/2024
The global ceremony marking World Food Day 2024 took place here today, with participants underlining the need for universal access to enough diverse, nutritious, affordable, and safe foods. The event came ami...
Bioeconomy highlighted during the European Economic and Social Committee public debate
15/10/2024
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) invited FAO to provide a briefing to the 6th Rural Pact Debate, focusing on the development of regional bioeconomy strategies to enhance rural development. The event emphasized the importance of maximizing local resources in rural areas through...
Global Family Farming Forum focuses on family farmers’ role in tackling hunger
15/10/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) today launched the Global Family Farming Forum, celebrati...
World Food Forum: More countries are participating in the FAO Hand-in-Hand Initiative’s innovative investment approach
15/10/2024
Right to Foods for a better life and a better future: The Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and FAO invite to a World Food Day Celebration
15/10/2024
The Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union hosted a cocktail reception to celebrate World Food Day, gathering friends, partners, and representatives from European Union institutions and Member States.
World Food Day was first proposed by Hungary ...
Feeding the future: the story of Laruwati and Home-Grown School Meals in Nepal
15/10/2024
Laruwati Kamat, a rural woman farmer from Siraha district in eastern Nepal, has always known the value of fresh food. For generations, her family followed seasonal patterns to cultivate vegetables, believing certain months were the only viable time to grow. However, her approach to f...
FAO presents COP29 priorities to the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
14/10/2024
FAO’s Deputy Director of the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment, Piedad Martin, was invited by the European Economic and Social Committee to exchange on the upcoming Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).&...
FAO Brussels Director meets with Ministers of the Belgian Regional Government of Wallonia: Exploring future partnerships
14/10/2024
Raschad Al-Khafaji, Director of the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels, recently paid a visit to Namur to hold discussions with members of the Belgian Regional Government of Wallonia. The meetings provided an excellent opportunity to exchange on matters of mutual interest with a common object...
Validating the Minimum Dietary Diversity (MDD) indicator across population groups: a World Food Day Webinar
14/10/2024
On the occasion of World Food Day, the Nutrition Research Facility. co-organized a webinar with the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels on the topic of “Validating the Minimum Dietary Diversity (MDD) indicator across population groups”. The Nutrition Research Facility, established by Agri...
FAO participates at an event of the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union: Making aquaculture a vital part of the European sustainable food system
14/10/2024
Under the auspices of the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU), the Permanent Representation of Hungary to the EU in Brussels hosted a workshop titled "Making Aquaculture a Vital Part of the European Sustainable Food System". The event featured speakers from the ...
FAO's Response to the Escalating Conflict in Lebanon: Safeguarding Food, Nutrition, Security and Agriculture
14/10/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is ramping up efforts to support the agriculture sector and safeguard food and nutrition security amid the escalating conflict in Lebanon.
FAO is co-leading the reactivated Food Security and Agriculture Cluster in partners...
World Food Forum: 2024 global flagship event opens in Rome
14/10/2024
Rome – The fourth edition of the World Food Forum (WFF) flagship event, the largest annual gathering of agrifood systems stakeholders globally,...
FAO Liaison Offices Brussels and Geneva jointly organize a World Food Forum (WFF) event on Women and Girls Empowerment in Agrifood Systems
14/10/2024
On 14 October, FAO Brussels and FAO Geneva co-organized a World Food Forum Side Event with the title Women and Girls Empowerment – Leading the Change Towards Agrifood Systems Transformation. The event shed light on persistent barriers and challenges that women and girls still face nowaday...
Building bridges to entrepreneurship in Ghana and Nigeria
14/10/2024
Augustina Akosua Asor Tufuor’s entrepreneurial spark was ignited while she was a student at the University of Ghana Business School and enrolled in a course on business management. The same year, she met a group of rural farmers and saw the vast potential for local agricultural products, ...