World food commodity prices declined for the third month in a row during April, as the economic and logistical impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant contractions in demand...

Tackling both immediate and future needs is the key to truly sustainable development, even amid emergency situations like the COVID-19 pandemic. FAO’s Deputy Director-General (Programmes) Beth Bechdol, met with Marjeta...

Members of Parliament from Latin America and Europe  held a virtual meeting today on ways to strengthen cooperation on hunger and malnutrition, especially in light of the added suffering caused...

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu held virtual talks today with Jutta Urpilainen, European Commissioner for International Partnerships. Both parties agreed to step up joint efforts to support the fight against hunger...

Task Force members included the European Union, the African Development Bank, the World Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the World Food Programme(WFP) and the African Union Development...

In an online discussion with Janez Lenarčič, the European Commissioner for Crisis Management, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu thanked the EU for its unwavering and solid support of FAO’s work –...

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu held virtual talk with Phil Hogan, the European Commissioner for Trade. Both parties stressed their full agreement on the importance of keeping food supply chains open...

Over 400 participants tuned in to the first edition of the FAO Brussels Dialogues. This is a new series launched by the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels to share FAO’s...

The 2020 edition of the annual report of the Global Network against Food Crises, The Global Report on Food Crises, provides an analysis of the drivers that are contributing to...

Mr Paolo De Castro is a Member of the European Parliament, Member of the European Parliament’s Committee of Agriculture and Rural Development and Member of the European Parliamentary Alliance against...

Starting in early 2020, the global Desert Locust situation deteriorated as favourable climatic conditions allowed widespread breeding of the pest in East Africa, Southwest Asia and the area around the...

Mitigating impacts of COVID-19 on food trade and markets: Joint Statement by QU Dongyu, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Roberto Azevedo, Directors-General of FAO, WHO and WTO

The partnership between the European Union and FAO is strong and driven by a common vision and goals, as evidenced by their ongoing strategic dialogue and focus on eradicating extreme...

FAO is helping countries to respond to the worst desert locust upsurge in a quarter of a century across the Greater Horn of Africa, by supporting government-led locust control and...

Under the ever-increasing threat of climate change and biodiversity loss, desertification calls for a response of unprecedented urgency. FAO’s Action Against Desertification has recently published a practitioner manual to support the technologies and...

Do you see the world in numbers? Do you study charts like an art lover studies Renoir? Do you love statistics in all its forms? Well, FAO does too! Now...

In March, the Royal Mint of Belgium unveiled its first 2 euro coin for the year of 2020. The coin, which bears the logo of the International Year of Plant...

Read about the Liaison Office's activites during the month of February, including its work on the desert locust upsurge and the international conference on forests, biodiversity and climate.

The 17 February international donors’ conference in Brussels, Together for Albania, was convened by the European Union in support of reconstruction efforts after the November 2019 earthquake in Albania. The...

With the infestation of desert locusts in the Horn of Africa reaching critical levels, FAO Brussels Director Rodrigo de Lapuerta, updated the European Union Member States on the situation and...