Acknowledging a “very complicated” global scenario, QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), urged countries in the Mediterranean to work together to mitigate...

FAO, together with four other United Nations agencies – the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and United...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today issued a stark warning of multiple, looming food crises, driven by...

The Dutch Rijkstraineeprogramma, a 2-year training programme for future civil servants, paid a visit to Brussels in early June. The trainees visited numerous Brussels-based institutions including the United Nations Agencies. The...

Tom, you have been the Secretary of the FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission since 2014. Could you tell us a bit more about Codex, its activities and your role as secretary? The...

The Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) was created in 2011 as part of the G20 Action Plan on Food Price Volatility and Agriculture to enhance international food markets’ transparency and...

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) remain strongly affected by climate change, natural disasters and other external shocks including the COVID-19 pandemic and increasing global food prices. That was the main...

FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia, Vladimir Rakhmanin, contributed to a debate on the impact of the Ukrainian war on global food security. The event was...

Nutrition, the AU Theme of 2022, was the main focus of this year’s Africa Day celebration, which was held virtually by the AU Representation in Brussels. Opened by the AU Representative...

To mark World Biodiversity Day and the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels teamed up with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations...

FAO Brussels Director Raschad Al-Khafaji paid a courtesy visit to the Secretary-General of the Organization for Africa, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), Ambassador Georges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti, during which the...

The potential of the growing bioeconomy sector was at the forefront of discussions at the General Assembly of the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC), which took place in Brussels. Presenting FAO’s...

The head of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today called for greater funding for agriculture to ensure there’s available and accessible food in crisis situations,...

Director of the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels Raschad Al-Khafaji interacted with a range of partners from Belgium’s academic sector during a series of visits to Belgian academic institutions in...

FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission Secretary Tom Heilandt was invited to intervene at an event organized by the European Food Forum under the title “The journey towards a harmonized front-of-pack labelling...

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today made an urgent call for the transformation of agrifood systems, to make them more...

Working to safeguard the food security and livelihoods of vulnerable rural families in Ukraine, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has distributed seed potato kits to...

The European Parliament Committee on Agriculture invited FAO Chief Economist Máximo Torero to speak on the impacts of the war in Ukraine on global food markets. Torero stated that the war...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today received an award of excellence for a digital tool that helps to analyze and compare data on food and...

Ministers and high-level representatives from across Europe and Central Asia met today at the FAO Regional Conference for Europe (ERC33) to discuss not only the implications of the war in...