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Showcasing SWM Programme achievements to OACPS Permanent Missions
19/11/2025
The FAO Liaison Office in Brussels, together with the Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme, European Commission’s DG INTPA, and the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), hosted an information session for OACPS Permanent Missions in Brussels that are par...
COP30: Landmark report finds countries’ climate agrifood ambitions undermined by funding gaps
18/11/2025
Developing countries recognize the urgent need to adapt agrifood systems to climate change, but most National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) are struggling to address key risks or protect vulnerable groups due to severe financing and capacity gaps, according to a landmark report released on Tuesday b...
Students4Food Talks 2025: Young Researchers Inspiring Agrifood Systems Transformation
18/11/2025
For the second year in a row, the Students4Food Talks took place in Belgium. This year’s edition was organized by the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels in collaboration with Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) under the World Food Forum 2025 theme “Hand in Hand for Better Food...
COP30: FAO’s AIM4Forests secures long-term financial support from the United Kingdom
15/11/2025
The UK Government today announced long-term funding of GBP 16.9 million for the Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests (AIM4Forests) programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ...
FAO at SDG-Forum 2025: Unlocking Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Potential for the SDGs
14/11/2025
At SDG-Forum 2025 in Brussels, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hosted a side event on “Scaling Impact – Incubation Strategies to Unlock the Potential of MSMEs and Advance the SDGs.” The session highlighted how agribusiness incubation can help micro, small and ...
Disasters cost global agriculture $3.26 trillion over three decades, FAO report reveals
14/11/2025
Disasters have inflicted an estimated $3.26 trillion in agricultural losses worldwide over the past 33 years – an average of $99 billion annually, roughly 4 percent of global agricultural GDP – according to a new report by the Food and A...
FAO Food Outlook points to broad-based increase in global food commodity production
13/11/2025
Current conditions point to broad-based increases in global food commodity production, alongside strong consumption growth and a recovery in inventories, although weather variability and a clouded trade outlook could pose risks, according to a new
FAO briefs Council of the EU on Global Acute Food Insecurity
12/11/2025
Following an invitation by the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU, FAO presented the latest findings of the Global Network Against Food Crisis (GNAFC) to the Council of the EU Working Party on H...
New TERRA programme boosts small and medium agrifood companies’ access to credit
11/11/2025
Privately-owned micro, small and medium agrifood enterprises (MSMEs) in sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and Türkiye seeking loans from local financial institutions stand to benefit from TERRA, a new innovative programme from Italy’s Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), the Food and Agriculture Or...
Ukraine opens new Duplicate Centre to safeguard national plant genetic resources
11/11/2025
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Ukraine, with the financial support of the European Union (EU) and in partnership with the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, the&...
New FAO-WFP report warns of shrinking window to prevent millions more people from facing acute food insecurity in 16 hotspots
11/11/2025
A new joint report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) warns that acute food insecurity is deepening in 16 hunger hotspots, whi...
Codex Alimentarius Commission meets at FAO as Organization marks 80 years of action on food safety
10/11/2025
The 48th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC48) opened today at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nat...
Know your international food standards: Resources you don’t want to miss ahead of the 48th Codex Alimentarius Commission
10/11/2025
The 48th Codex Alimentarius Commission (10–14 November) is just round the corner.
The Commission meets on a yearly basi...
COP30: FAO warns climate funding gap threatens agrifood systems transformation
07/11/2025
Transforming global agrifood systems to be more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable is critical to meeting the Paris Agreement targets on climate change. Yet, the persistent...
FAO Food Price Index declines in October, world cereal stocks set to reach record high
07/11/2025
COP30: Climate extremes are already impacting food yields today
06/11/2025
The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), taking place in Belém, Brazil, brings together world leaders, scientists, non-governmental organizations, and civil society to define urgent actions against climate change....
Ghana launches FLEGT licensing, marking a milestone in legal timber trade and sustainable forest management
05/11/2025
This week, a series of events takes place in Brussels to celebrate the start of EU-Ghana FLEGT licensing since 8 October, marking a major milestone in international forest governance.
The Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) between the EU and Ghana is an international timbe...
Famine conditions confirmed in Sudan’s El Fasher and Kadugli as hunger and malnutrition ease where conflict subsides
04/11/2025
The latest analysis of food insecurity and malnutrition in Sudan shows stark contrasts along conflict lines, the Food ...
Climate Finance key to building resilient agrifood systems in SIDS
04/11/2025
When climate shocks disrupt agrifood systems, the impact goes beyond economics. Food security, nutrition, and livelihoods are all at stake. That’s why climate and environmental financing is not optional; it is essential. It is the lifeline that enables Small Island Developing States (SIDS...
FAO report: 1.7 billion people experience lower crop yields due to land degradation
03/11/2025
Approximately 1.7 billion people live in areas where crop yields are falling because of human-induced land degradation - a pervasive and silent crisis that is undermining agricultural productivity and threatening ecosystem health worldwide.
The alarming figure comes f...