FAO Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium

23/10/2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will co-lead the implementation of 21 new projects as part of the second round of funding from 

23/10/2024

QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), called today for an increased focus on Africa amid rising hunger there. Addressing the Meeting of Development Ministers from G7 countries, Qu underlined FAO’s commitment to a key initiative put fo...

23/10/2024

In a landmark decision, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved funding for two transformative projects valued at $134 million, to support adaptation and enhance the climate resilience of vulnerab...

22/10/2024

The situation in the Middle East is catastrophic, FAO-Director General QU Dongyu said today in his address to the G7 Development Ministers’ Meeting taking place in Pescara from 22-24 October.

“If we want to save lives and prevent famine, we urgently need a humanitarian ceasefire and unli...

28/10/2024

Amid the ongoing horror of the conflict and alongside the tens of thousands of human victims in Gaza, Hakmah El-Hamidi has lost at least half of her animals. She has been raising livestock since she was a child, waking up at 7 a.m. to feed and care for them, repeating this task in...

25/10/2024
Closing the gap between ambition and implementation is the next frontier in the struggle to conserve the vast array of plant and animal species comprising life on earth and the habitats they rely on, including our own.

Currently, 
09/10/2024

As a part of the long-standing collaboration between FAO and Belgian academic institutions, the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels was pleased to welcome a group of students from the University of Liège. 

Engaged in a course on food value chain analysis taught by Profess...

17/10/2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced today the new FAO Four Betters Courses initiative, aimed at extending FAO’s outreach and partnerships with academia to transform global agrifood systems. The initiative will provide a systematic and methodological fram...

21/10/2024

Biodiversity for food and agriculture comprises all the components of biodiversity that contribute to crop and livestock production, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture – both wild and domesticated, and at genetic, species and ecosystem levels. It is vital to food security and nutrition, livel...

18/10/2024

The fourth annual World Food Forum (WFF) 2024 concluded today in Rome, marking the end of an impactful week at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) dedicated to transforming global ag...

17/10/2024

One year into the conflict, the risk of famine remains high across the whole Gaza Strip with more people likely to fall into severe hunger as conflict intensifies and winter approaches, according to 

17/10/2024

FAO welcomed today the adoption of the Rome Declaration on Water Scarcity in Agriculture aimed at addressing water scarcity increasingly exacerbated by the climate crisis – ...

16/10/2024

FAO's Director-General calls on all of us to renew our commitment to building more efficient, more inclusive, more resilient, and more sustainable agrifood systems.

Read his opening statement of the World Food Day ceremony and presentation of the FAO Achievement Award.

 

17/10/2024

The third edition of the Rome Water Dialogue titled "High-Level Rome Water Dialogue on WASAG" will be organized in the framework of the World Food Forum 2024.

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16/10/2024

The third edition of the Science and Innovation Forum (SIF 2024) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) opened today under the th...

16/10/2024

The global ceremony marking World Food Day 2024 took place here today, with participants underlining the need for universal access to enough diverse, nutritious, affordable, and safe foods. The event came ami...

14/10/2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is ramping up efforts to support the agriculture sector and safeguard food and nutrition security amid the escalating conflict in Lebanon.

FAO is co-leading the reactivated Food Security and Agriculture Cluster in partners...

16/10/2024

Everyone has a right to food. World Food Day, marked annually on 16 October, is being celebrated in more than 150 countries and over 50 languages. Stay tuned throughout the day as we take you to Rome for the main event at 10am local time at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organiza...