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FAO, WFP, Mercy Corps and the Ukrainian Red Cross step up grain storage support to protect Ukraine's 2026 harvest
31/08/2026
FAO at COP17: Pastoralists are essential partners in rangeland restoration
26/08/2026
The FAO Villages Recognition Initiative
20/08/2026
FAO has launched the Villages Recognition Initiative, a global programme that celebrates villages that are advancing sustainable agrifood systems, conserving biodiversity, preserving food traditions and local knowledge, and fostering inclusive rural development.
Papua New Guinea inaugurates its largest cocoa processing facility, making more chocolate at home
13/08/2026
FAO Food Price Index edges up amid weather, energy and geopolitical concerns
07/08/2026
FAO seeks time-sensitive support to protect Afghanistan's 2027 wheat harvest ahead of critical planting window
06/08/2026
Call for Partners: Join FAO Brussels in bringing World Food Week 2026 to Belgium and the European Union
05/08/2026
The FAO Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium invites all its partners across Belgium and the European Union to celebrate World Food Week 2026 (From 8 to 16 October 2026), one of the ...
Bulgaria pioneers sea-farmed trout and integrated aquaculture in the Black Sea
28/07/2026
The pilot initiative, carried out in the coastal town of Kavarna, also delivered Bulgaria's first integrated multitrophic aquaculture system, combining rainbow trout and Mediterranean mussel, and marked the first operational deployment of
FAO presents new strategic model to tackle transboundary animal diseases
24/07/2026
Food security and child nutrition crises persist in Gaza despite fragile gains due to increased humanitarian assistance and commercial traffic
23/07/2026
New analysis released today shows improvements in food security and child nutrition across the Gaza Strip. However, the United Nations cautioned that the progress, driven largely by expanded access to humanitarian food, nutrition, agricultural and health assistance, remains fragile. While acce...
UN report: Global hunger levels ease for third consecutive year as regional disparities persist
21/07/2026
Global hunger declined for a third consecutive year in 2025, demonstrating that progress is possible. However, the improvements remain fragile, unevenly distributed and insufficient to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, according to Th...
SOFI 2026: Hunger not inevitable, FAO says as global hunger report shows progress
21/07/2026
Three consecutive years of progress in reducing global hunger demonstrate that hunger is not inevitable, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, said Tuesday at the launch of the 2026 edition of
Gaza Strip: Scale-up in FAO’s conditional cash for farmers projected to help feed 100 000 people over the next year
16/07/2026
The Food and Agriculture Organizatio...
Director-General opens 77th Session of the Committee on Commodity Problems
14/07/2026
Director-General highlights renewed FAO-ICO partnership for a sustainable coffee sector
14/07/2026
FAO Director-General QU Dongyu today highlighted the importance of strengthening international cooperation to support coffee-producing countries and communities, as FAO and the International Coffee Organization (ICO) renewed their longstanding partnership through the signing of a Memorandum of...
A new FAO report examines how shocks affect global coffee, cocoa and tea markets and outlines policy options to address structural vulnerabilities
14/07/2026
International prices of coffee, cocoa and tea have recently experienced large fluctuations, exacerbated by structural vulnerabilities, according to a new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), highlighting the need to strengthen production systems, impro...
State of Agricultural Commodity Markets explores how best to cope with shocks
10/07/2026
Call for Videos: Actions on One Health - Voices from Youth
10/07/2026
At the upcoming FAO Global Conference on Actions on One Health in Agrifood Systems, taking place from 21-23st Septem...
FAO Brussels is hiring a Junior Liaison Specialist!
09/07/2026
Join the FAO Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium (FAOLOB) in Brussels and contribute to international cooperation, climate action and sustainable agrifood systems in a multicultural environment.
The role supports two key initiatives:
Global food safety standards body Codex agrees on new guidance on “may contain” allergen labels
07/07/2026
The Codex Alimentarius Commission today agreed to adopt new international gui...