FAO Chief Scientist, Ismahane Elouafi met with the Director-General of the EU Joint Research Centre (JRC) Stephen Quest to discuss ways to scale up FAO-JRC joint scientific efforts to transform...

Agriculture absorbs the bulk of the financial losses and damages wrought by disasters which have grown in frequency, intensity, and complexity, says FAO in a new report released today. At no other point...

The 10th meeting of the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste (EU PFLW)  discussed, among other things, ongoing work on the code of conduct for Responsible Business and...

The Division for Emergencies and Resilience, the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels, and the Kingdom of Belgium co-organized a briefing on the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation (SFERA). As...

More than 100 stakeholders from academia, governments, policymaking, the private sector, and civil society gathered in February for the first independent Food Systems Summit Dialogue organized in Brussels. The co-organizers...

FAO has been actively engaged in the EU multi-stakeholder dialogue on sustainable cocoa, which delivered concrete recommendations to advance sustainability across the cocoa supply chain through collective action and partnerships...

The FAO Liaison Office in Brussels took part in an online seminar entitled “Construction of sustainable and inclusive territorial food systems”, which highlighted the human right to adequate food as...

FAO and the CGIAR Gender Platform held a virtual event to share insights and lessons learned from specific country-based examples on addressing gender-based causes of food insecurity and malnutrition in...

Secretary-General of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), Georges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti, met with heads of various United Nations Agencies in Brussels, and discussed the new institutional...

The ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) adopted a Resolution calling on the EU and its member states to provide greater support to African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries amid the...

As the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict and climate-related crises drive acute levels of hunger higher, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is seeking $1.1 billion in 2021...

Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, 88 percent of all sustainable forestry projects supported by the FAO-EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme in its Phase III...

FAO Brussels Director a.i. Rodrigo de Lapuerta met with Regional Director of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Regional Office for the EU, Norway and Switzerland, Ola Henrikson to discuss...

An estimated 931 million tonnes of food, or 17 percent of total food available to consumers in 2019, went into the waste bins of households, retailers, restaurants and other food...

Continuing the EU-FAO Strategic Dialogue technical sessions, the final EU-FAO technical webinar presented the EU's Farm to Fork Strategy, one of the key initiatives within the European Green Deal. The...

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, has appealed for urgent aid to fight the humanitarian crisis in Yemen as UN agencies...

Stepping up their longstanding partnership, the European Union and FAO kicked off technical preparatory meetings in February for this year’s Strategic Dialogue. The Strategic Dialogue is a key process that...

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, met virtually with European Union (EU) Ambassadors and Permanent Representatives to FAO to discuss the...

More than 100 stakeholders from academia, governments, policymaking, the private sector, and civil society gathered today for the first independent Food Systems Summit Dialogue co-organized by the FAO Liaison Office in...

While operations to control the Desert Locust in Western Africa, Iran and Pakistan have proven effective in calming the outbreak, new and persistent immature swarms are currently endangering Somalia, Kenya...