The finalists of the World Food Forum’s global startup competition, pitched their ventures centering on ways to create sustainable agrifood systems, at the Startup Innovat...

To bolster a full-spectrum response to the global need to achieve sustainable agrifood systems, the heads of two United Nations agencies announced a new initiative called Atoms4Food to offer Member countries assistance in strategic planning, increasing food production and food safety.

Gender-transformative approaches are cost-effective in transforming agrifood systems. Closing the gender gap in land tenure has benefits on employment, investment, natural resource management, access to services, resilience, and food security. This is one of the main takeaways of the report “<...

The FAO Liaison Office in Brussels organized a World Food Forum (WFF) satellite event in Brussels during the WFF Flagship Event Week. 

The event was held in partnership with

The second Hand-in-Hand Investment Forum began today, intent on quadrupling the more than $3 billion in fresh resources proposed in the inaugural event in 2022 to invest in poverty reduction, improved food security and sus...

This year’s World Food Day celebrates one of the planet’s most precious resources: water. It’s essential to life on Earth. It covers the majority of the planet’s surface, makes up over 50 percent of our bodies, helps keep us fed, supports  livelihoods and is central to achieving the 2030 ...

Under the theme "Water is life, water is food. Leave no one behind”, the photo exhibition in one of Brussels’ most central locations, just off the famous Grand Place, offers a captivating visual journey through FAO's work for water security in Africa.

The exhibition was organized on the oc...

The global ceremony marking this year’s World Food Day 2023 took place here today, against a backdrop of increasing world hunger and conflicts. In parti...

On World Food Day, the Coalition Against Hunger, a group of 20 Belgian NGOs,  hosted at the Belgian Federal Parliament a seminar under the theme “End Hunger: Mission Impossible? Why is the fight against hunger fa...

The FAO Liaison Office in Brussels marked World Food Day together with partners, colleagues and friends of FAO on 16 October during a commemoration that took place in the Royal Museum of Natural History in Brussels.

With the participation of more than 110 guests, and with colleagues conn...

Over the last 30 years, an estimated $3.8 trillion worth of crops and livestock production has been lost due to disaster events, corresponding to an average loss of $123 billion per year or 5 percent of annual global agricultural gross domestic product (GDP), according to 

Blue transformation outlines a vision to expand aquatic food systems and increase their contribution to nutritious and affordable healthy diets. Leaving no one behind. This was one of the main messages conveyed to FAO’s partners by Manuel Barange, FAO Assistant Director-General and Director of...

The City of Valencia hosted productive dialogue on “Urban public policies against food loss and waste” during a conference co-organized b...

At this year’s World Food Day, and with the support of numerous national entities, organizations, comp...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Liaison Office in Brussels and the UN Environment Programme Brussels Office celebrated jointly this year’s International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste. Participants included policymakers from European, national and regional levels, UN staff s,...

During the first semester of 2023, FAO and the Swedish Presidency of the EU Council demonstrated an excellent collaboration through joint events and actions that highlighted the strength of the FAO-EU partnership.

FAO contributed to different sessions of EU Council Working Parties led by...

The 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly marks a crucial milestone in the journey towards achieving the 2030 Agenda and the urgent need to put the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) back on track. 

The world will come together around the theme ‘Rebuilding trust and...

 Halfway into the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a lot of the progress made towards its food and agriculture-related targets has stagnated or reversed, compounding the challenges in eradicating poverty and hunger, improving health and nutrition, and combating ...

The Director of FAO's Office of Statistics, José Alejandro Rosero Moncayo, participated at a public hearing on “Sustainable agriculture: past, present and future – the role of data and indicators’’, organised by the Committee on Agriculture and Rural development and the Committee on Environmen...

On 19 October, this year’s edition of the Belgian SDG Forum will take place in Brussels.

It is the first multistakeholder forum dedicated to the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030 in the Benelux. Initia...