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...

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...

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.

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...

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu today hailed the European Union's pledge to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 and praised commitments to protect and restore the world's forests.

Members of the European Parliamentary Alliance against Hunger and Malnutrition gathered for the first time since the European Parliament elections at the end of May. The constituent meeting of the...

For the first time ever, FAO had the chance to exchange views at the European Parliament with Members of the European Parliament from four Committees. FAO Deputy Director-General for Climate...

The World Food Day (WFD) - marked each year on 16 October - highlights the need to step up efforts to end hunger and other forms of malnutrition and the...

On 25 February, the government of Flanders opened a diplomatic post in Rome with the aim of strengthening the current cooperation with the Italian Government and the three Rome-based agencies....

With great interest and valuable contributions on the high social, economic and environmental cost of food waste, representatives from the European Commission, EU Member States, international organizations, civil society and...