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,...

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...

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...

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...

The Belgian Federal Parliament’s Chamber of Representatives (La Chambre) invited FAO Brussels Director Raschad Al-Khafaji to present the Organization’s latest data and analyses related to the war in Ukraine and...

During his visit in Poland, to participate in the 33rd Regional Conference for Europe, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu today held discussions with European Union Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski.The main...

“Trees, forests and sustainable forestry can help the world recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and combat looming environmental crises such as climate change and biodiversity loss.” That is one of...

World food commodity prices decreased in April after a large jump the previous month, led by modest declines in the prices of vegetable oils and cereals, the Food and Agriculture...

The number of people facing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent life-saving food assistance and livelihood support continues to grow at an alarming rate. This makes it more urgent than...