Rome/Berlin - Reversing soil degradation is vital if we want to feed a growing global population, protect biodiversity and help address the planet’s climate crisis, the Director-General of the Food and...

You joined FAO less than a year ago to become Director of the Office of Sustainable Development Goals, an office newly created by the FAO Director-General. Why this office and why...

“We are now at an exciting and critical stage in the implementation of the Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme.The four SWM Programme partners are working together to complete studies, draw...

Now in its third year, the Programme for Support to Rural Entrepreneurship, Investment and Trade in Papua New Guinea (EU-STREIT PNG) is stepping up efforts in 2022 to increase sustainable...

Recognizing the importance of the small-scale fisheries and aquaculture sectoras a sustainable source of healthy and nutritious food, the United Nations General Assembly has declared 2022 as the International Year...

The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector accounts for around 20-25% of global anthropogenic emissions, and is currently one of the largest sources of greenhouse gases. It also...

To coincide with the publication of the results of the global Food System Assessment (FSA) undertaken by the European Union, FAO and the agricultural research centre for international development (CIRAD)...

A joint initiative by the FAO Liaison Offices in New York, Geneva and Brussels Brussels to engage the diplomatic community and partners Small Island Developing States (SIDS) share similar sustainable development...

Over $138 million in urgent funding is needed to assist 1.5 million vulnerable people in rural communities in the Horn of Africa whose fields and pastures have been hard hit...

TheRenew Europepolitical group in the European Parliament organized a virtual meeting on the revised regulation concerning Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF). The gathering, moderated by Member of...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Government of Malawi through the Ministry of Lands, Housing, and Urban Development, in November 2021, facilitated a capacity building...

Echo Capwell and Lola Pochet are two of the youngest members of the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels. Both of them are soon finishing a six-month internship with the liaison office financed by the Flanders Trainee Programme. To mark...

The loss of forests and other valuable ecosystems is having a devastating impact on climate, biodiversity and the socio-economic well-being of communities whose livelihoods depend on them. Agricultural expansion is the most significant driver of global

The European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission (EIFAAC) held its annual meeting of the management committee. Representatives from Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, and Latvia were welcomed by Nabil Gangi, Deputy Regional Representat

 The newly released State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2021 report, an annual flagship publication of FAO, was presented in Brussels at an Infopoint that was hosted by the European Commission Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTP

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