Transboundary animal diseases, with their ability to spread rapidly across borders and escalate into epidemics, pose serious threats to global economic stability, trade, livelihoods, global  health and food security.

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It has been 75 years since the Europe and Central Asia Members of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) gathered for the first time at FAO’s headquarters in Rome. Last week, once again, they convened to decide on the main priorities and the way forward for the food ...

From bees to earthworms, from coral reefs to rain forests - biodiversity helps to ensure our food diversity and must be key to transforming our food production systems, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations underlined today. As it marked 

Ljubljana/Slovenia - The first International Forum for Action on Sustainable Beekeeping and Pollination, a collaboration between the Foo...

Did you know that there are over 350 crops that play a significant role in food and agriculture globally?

That's in addition to thousands of other crops that play a role in people's food and livelihoods locally.

The greater the diversity of crops and seeds in our global food basket...

Through its Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) initiative in Europe and Central Asia, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) works to recognize and sus...

Biodiversity and agriculture are inseparable. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, or ‘The Biodiversity Plan’, adopted by countries in 2022, fully recognizes this close interdependence. The Biodiversity Plan sets out a pathway to a world living in harmony with nature by 2050, with ...

The cultivation of coffee is a cornerstone of agricultural livelihoods in Honduras and Guatemala, driving economic growth and poverty alleviation in rural areas.

It accounts for as much as 14 percent of the value of agrifood exports in Guatemala and a staggering 52 percent in Honduras. I...

Rome — The 34th Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Europe (ERC) ended today following four days of exchanges on the steps needed to transform agrifood systems in Europe and Central Asia.

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Rome - Artificial Intelligence and the ongoing digital revolution will inevitably transform the world and its agrifood systems, making it all the more urgent that the transformations they drive benefit everyone and contribute to solving global challenges, the Director-General of the Food and...

On May 15, the then-incoming Hungarian Mission to the EU hosted a workshop for CODEV and COHAFA delegates which marked the start of critical discussions on upcoming Council Conclusions on food security, scheduled for endorsement in December 2024.  

FAO (David Laborde, Director ...

Rome –  While countries in Europe and Central Asia are grappling with conflict and environmental challenges, they are well positioned to pursue the sustainable transformation of agrifood systems and have already taken steps towards achieving many of the core Sustainable Development Goals (

* By QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Europe and Central Asia have a great potential for the global contribution to food security by producing more with less. However, the challenges to our shared vision of a more people-cen...