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EU and FAO agree to accelerate joint efforts to ensure a path leading from the COVID-19 recovery towards the SDGs
06/05/2020
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 focusing on impacts of COVID-19 on Africa's Food Security begins work
05/05/2020
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...
EU and FAO reaffirm commitment to tackle together immediate and long-term challenges to ending hunger
28/04/2020
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 and the EU highlight the need to keep food supply chains open in times of the COVID-19 pandemic
24/04/2020
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...
"FAO Brussels Dialogue" debuts with FAO Chief Economist Máximo Torero Cullen
23/04/2020
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...
Just Released: 2020 Global Report on Food Crises
21/04/2020
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...
Interview with MEP Paolo De Castro on the impacts of COVID-19 on food and agriculture
06/04/2020
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...
Desert Locust Crisis in East Africa
04/04/2020
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...
COVID-19: Joint Statement by FAO, WHO and WTO Directors-General
01/04/2020
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
EU and FAO: A sound and growing partnership
31/03/2020
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...
Desert locust infestation in the horn of Africa
30/03/2020
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...
Scaling-up land restoration to support rural communities
20/03/2020
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...
FAO's new open data policy makes fact-finding and information sharing easier
16/03/2020
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...
A special 2 euro coin to promote the International Year of Plant Health
06/03/2020
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 the February edition of our Brussels in Brief newsletter now!
28/02/2020
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.
Together for Albania
17/02/2020
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...
Desert locusts swarm the Horn of Africa
14/02/2020
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...
Protecting forests, protecting biodiversity, protecting our world
05/02/2020
What are the challenges that forests face and how do we best protect and restore them? That was the question which European Commission, European Parliamentarians, International Organizations, governments, civil society...
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31/01/2020
Read the latest news from FAO Brussels. This month, read about our office's briefing to the Belgian Parliament, and the upscaling of our work with DG RTD.
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20/12/2019
Read the latest news from FAO Brussels. This month, read about the Director-General's first visit to Brussels, the constituent meeting of the European Parliamentary Alliance on Hunger and Malnutrition and...