A technical discussion on Seafood as a Strategic Source of Food in the Context of Climate Change was organized by the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development and the Xunta de Galicia. Manuel Barange, Di

Mette Løyche Wilkie, Director of the FAO Forestry Division, presented delegates of the Council of the European Union Working Party on Forestry with the first findings from the Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) Remote Sensing Survey on Drivers of Defores

The webinar titled: “Farm to Fork Strategy – Aligning the food industry with the European Green Deal's climate neutrality objectives and the SDGs” explored ways and means to better align food industries with the...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today called on donors and Members to increase funding to fight Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), which the United Nations agency,  together with the...

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) organized the 2021 edition of the EU Agricultural Outlook Conference with the theme ‘Fit for 2030 – resilient EU agrifood systems and rural areas’. During the

As in past years, the three UN Rome-based Agencies (RBAs) participated in the campaign to amplify the voices of victims and survivors and to demonstrate their continuous commitment to action to...

Public interest in and support for nutrition and healthy diets are growing stronger, offering a ray of hope for a challenge affecting billions of people, QU Dongyu, Director-General of the...

The FAO Liaison Office in Brussels organized a briefing on the Global Network Against Food Crises for a number of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and the European Alliance against Hunger and Malnutrition. The event revealed the...

Afghanistan’s food security situation is rapidly deteriorating and an estimated 22.8 million Afghans are projected to be in acute food insecurity by March 2022.   With rural livelihood systems on the brink of collapse, the economic upheaval, the ra

Under the theme “Halt Soil Salinization, Boost Soil Productivity”, FAO marked the 5th of December World Soil Day, highlighting the threat posed by soil salinization to global food security and raising concerns as many countries still lack the...

Steering Committees of the two flagship projects implemented by FAO and partners in ACP countries were held.  FISH4ACP aims to tackle some of the underlying challenges in building sustainable fisheries and aquaculture in twelve countries...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is seeking $1.5 billion in 2022 to save the lives and livelihoods of some of the world's most food-insecure people,...

A public hearing was convened by the European Parliament’s Committees on Development and on International Trade on 30 November 2021, to discuss ways of addressing child labour in developing countries In...

FAO and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) presented the Toolkit for integrating migration into rural development interventions to the European Commission Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) and EU...

World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (WAAW), held this year between 18 and 24 November was organized around theme ‘Spread Awareness, Stop Resistance’. It called for the global engagement of all...

Countries need to make their agrifood systems more resilient to sudden shocks of the kind witnessed during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has emerged as a major driver of the latest...

The socio-economic and environmental challenges faced by Small Island Developing States (SIDS) took center stage during the 20th meeting of the SIDS Forum organized by the Organization of African, Caribbean...

In honour of World Fisheries Day, celebrated on 21 November each year, the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels organized a virtual event with the title  “Sustainable fish value chains as a...

The signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between FAO’s International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat, and the Comité de Liaison Europe-Afrique-Caraïbes-Pacifique (COLEACP) took place this month. The MoU aims...

A virtual InfoPoint on “Moving beyond formal and informal seed systems for agrobiodiversity management” was organized by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships. The event discussed how seed systems...