The month of October saw a series of FAO experts participate in events in Brussels, covering a wide range of topics. These included:

Benjamin Davis, FAO Director of the Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division, participated virtually at the European Parliament's Commit...

Must we choose between food security and climate neutrality? How do we make sure food imports are safe? How do low-income countries move up the food value chain?

FAO’s corporate brochures not only answer such questions but correlate them with broader subjects – the bioeconomy, say, or gl...

The third annual World Food Forum flagship event hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has drawn to a successful close, with attendees from across the world celebrating a ...

The second edition of the Science and Innovation Forum, a key constituent of the annual flagship World Food Forum, closed here on Fri...

With only seven agricultural seasons left before 2030, time is running out. If we want to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, we must act together and act decisively, now.
In the framework of FAO’s privileged partnership with Belgium, FAO Brussels Director Raschad 
Al-Khafaji...

FAO Brussels Director Raschad Al-Khafaji highlighted the importance of a systemic approach and FAO’s extensive work of two decades in promoting healthy school meals at the inaugural School Meals Coalition Global Summit held in Paris, France on 18 and 19 October. 

The Summit, attende...

The Aquarama Trade Fair and Conference on Water Technology, which took place in Leuven on 19 October, had about 1250 visitors visit 127 exhibitors presenting the latest in water technologies.

The Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Brussels Liaison Office, Raschad Al-Khaf...

Some of them create delicious foods or vibrant gardens, some raise people’s awareness of the crucial issues we face through their advocacy or through sport or music. Special guests, including Food Heroes, influencers and innovators gathered at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organ...

FAO Brussels  participated and moderated an academic seminar organized by UC Louvain on the occasion of World Food Day 2023.

FAO Brussels welcomed the participants together with Marnik Vanclooster, Head of the Earth and Life Institute at UCLouvain and UNESCO's Europe Director Louise...

The finalists of the World Food Forum’s global startup competition, pitched their ventures centering on ways to create sustainable agrifood systems, at the Startup Innovat...

To bolster a full-spectrum response to the global need to achieve sustainable agrifood systems, the heads of two United Nations agencies announced a new initiative called Atoms4Food to offer Member countries assistance in strategic planning, increasing food production and food safety.

Gender-transformative approaches are cost-effective in transforming agrifood systems. Closing the gender gap in land tenure has benefits on employment, investment, natural resource management, access to services, resilience, and food security. This is one of the main takeaways of the report “<...

The FAO Liaison Office in Brussels organized a World Food Forum (WFF) satellite event in Brussels during the WFF Flagship Event Week. 

The event was held in partnership with

The second Hand-in-Hand Investment Forum began today, intent on quadrupling the more than $3 billion in fresh resources proposed in the inaugural event in 2022 to invest in poverty reduction, improved food security and sus...

This year’s World Food Day celebrates one of the planet’s most precious resources: water. It’s essential to life on Earth. It covers the majority of the planet’s surface, makes up over 50 percent of our bodies, helps keep us fed, supports  livelihoods and is central to achieving the 2030 ...

Under the theme "Water is life, water is food. Leave no one behind”, the photo exhibition in one of Brussels’ most central locations, just off the famous Grand Place, offers a captivating visual journey through FAO's work for water security in Africa.

The exhibition was organized on the oc...