Although severe hunger has not been a major issue in Europe and Central Asia in the past 20 years, the region is in part facing an increase of moderate food...

FAO Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol met with the Deputy Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA), Martin Seychell, to discuss areas of work in human development...

On the occasion of Europe Day 2021, the EU Delegation in Rome organized a Virtual Symposium on Ending Child Labour by 2025, to ‘Act, Inspire and Scale Up’ in Agriculture...

The Committee on Sustainable Development, Environment, Energy Policy, Research, Innovation and Technology of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat) was briefed by programme officer for support to Latin American and...

The European Union (EU) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have agreed to increase joint efforts to transform agri-food systems, in order to make them...

The number of people facing acute food insecurity and needing urgent life and livelihood-saving assistance has hit a five-year high in 2020 in countries beset by food crises, an annual report launched...

Ever since the European Union joined FAO as a Member Organization in 1991, the EU-FAO partnership has been driven by a shared vision of a better future for all in...

The European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) organized an interactive stakeholder dialogue to explore the needs and options to strengthen the global Science Policy Interface (SPI) as...

At a time of unprecedented humanitarian needs, the Government of Belgium has increased its contribution to FAO’s Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA) to grant FAO the necessary flexibility to determine how...

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Rural Transformation, Industry & Labour of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Nerissa Gittens, provided an update on the impact of the...

The Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) drew to a close with a call to recognize and enhance the...

The European Parliament Seas, Rivers Islands and Coastal Areas Intergroup (SEARICA) held an online conference to help improve understanding of the challenges facing the fisheries and aquaculture sector in the...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the European Space Agency (ESA) are strengthening their partnership in order to generate and share data and information and...

“New solutions and modern approaches” are needed to face global challenges such as hunger, poverty, climate change, environmental degradation and the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, FAO Director-General QU...

The Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme has developed a legal hub designed to help improve national governance and legislative frameworks of natural resources via participatory and informed law-making processes. The...

FAO Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol and Minister-President of Flanders, Jan Jambon today signed a historic framework agreement to enhance cooperation between the Government of Flanders and FAO on a range...

“Science, knowledge, data and innovation are vital to agri-food systems transformation,” FAO Brussels Director Rodrigo de Lapuerta said during a meeting with the European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation...

The ACP-EU partnership agreement, also known as the Cotonou Agreement (2000-2020), is one of the oldest and most comprehensive frameworks for cooperation between the European Union and its partner countries....

The role of family farming in promoting sustainable food systems was the central theme of a high-level, virtual dialogue held by the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels, in collaboration with...

FAO Brussels and the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia met to discuss the EU Green Agenda for the Western Balkans and the Economic and Investment plan for...