Thank you for granting us this interview. You are the Inspector General of FAO. What does this role entail?  

In 1950 FAO created an internal audit unit, which eventually became the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the late 1990s.  Today, the work...

Women play a vital role in our agrifood systems: as farmers, retailers, wage workers, entrepreneurs, and beyond. But their working conditions and economic opportunities are influenced by gender inequalities within the household, the community, the institutions, and the broader society.

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Senior Animal Production Officer at FAO, Badi Besbes delivered a keynote speech on sustainable food systems and animal farming at the Annual General Meeting of the European Forum of Animal Farm Animal Breeders (EFFAB) and the Farm Animal Breeding and Reproduction Technology Platform (FABRE TP).&n...

Acute food insecurity is set to potentially increase in magnitude and s...

Upon invitation by the African Union (AU) Representation to the EU, FAO Brussels took part in commemorating Africa Day.

The Day was marked with a number of activities, including information sessions and seminars. FAO Brussels intervened during a seminar with the title “Acceleration of t...

Upon invitation by the Directorate General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, FAO presented at a meeting of the “Plateforme Agricole et de Sécurité Alimentaire (PASA)”. The platform brings together Belgian stakeholders and practitioners sp...

On 24 May, FAO organized a webinar titled "How can the European Green Deal drive sustainability in the tropical fruit sector?" The event was held in collaboration with the European Commission and the Committee Linking Entrepreneurship Agriculture Development (COLEAD)

The webinar sh...

Vincent Martin, FAO’s newly appointed Director for the Office of Innovation (OIN) visited Brussels. He attended the “Global Conference on Sustainability in Agriculture & Food Systems – Innovation, Indicators & Implementation” which was organized by the nonpartisan think-thank Re-Imagin...

They span the globe and embrace diverse terrains, from stone terraced c...

A delegation from the European Parliament’s Committee on Development travelled to Senegal to assess the European Union’s development portfolio in the country. The focus areas of the mission included vaccine development, EU support to the Great Green Wall (GGW),climate adaptation of coastal com...

Promoting agrifood systems that are more e...

Parties to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’  Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) have agreed to strengthen efforts to combat 

Detailed, comprehensive and timely data is essential to address the impact of shocks such as droughts, earthquakes or conflict on agricultural production and livelihoods in parts of the world affected by food crises.

Since its launch, during the first wave of the COVID-19 global pandemic...

The benchmark index of international food commodity prices rose in April for the first time in a year, amid increases in world quotations for sugar, meat and rice, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported today.

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"Uganda is Africa in miniature," said Susan Ngongi Namondo, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Uganda, at the wrap up of the Flexible Voluntary Contribution (FVC) Resource Partners' Field Trip, held in Uganda from 1 to 5 May. "All the development challenges that are faced in the rest of the A...

FAO Brussels Director Raschad Al-Khafaji briefed delegates from the Council Working Party on Humanitarian Aid and Food Aid (COHAFA) on the current global acute food insecurity situation. Invited by the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, his presentation shed a light on th...

The number of people experiencing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, with over a quarter of a billion facing acute hunger and people in seven countries on the brink of starvation, according to ...

Dear Manuel thank you for granting us this interview. Let us start with the latest “breakthrough” agreement reached by the UN on 5 March to protect marine biodiversity in international waters. What was FAO’s role in reaching this agreement and how will it impact our work in the coming ...