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...

Mainstreaming biodiversity of all animal, plant, and fungi species in the agricultural sector is an attempt to ensure that important aspects of biodiversity protection are taken into account when selecting...

During a policy roundtable organized by the European Parliament Intergroup on ‘Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development’, high-level speakers discussed sustainably-sourced renewable materials. The session built scientific understanding and

The new Director of the FAO Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium, Raschad Al-Khafaji presented his credentials letter to H.E. Meryame Kitir, the Belgian Federal Minister of Development...

Mark your calendar! The World Fisheries Day Celebration of the FAO Brussels Office is set to take place on 22 November from 13:00 to 14:30 Central European Time (CET) and you are formally...

Eliminating world hunger by the end of the decade requires urgent action and innovative solutions to the way we produce, distribute and consume food, QU Dongyu, the Director-General of the...