Thanawat Tiensen, FAO's Animal Production and Health Division Director, and Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO), participated virtually at the EU Chief Veterinary Officers meeting in Brussels. 

At the event, which was held under the Belgian Presidency of the Council, he p...

1 – Belgium presided over the Council of the European Union from 1 January to 30 June 2024. We collaborated on a number of joint activities during that time. Do you see this strong collaboration continuing in the future? Do you have specific topics in mind?   

“We are off-track for all nutrition-related SDGs”, was the sobering first message of Lynnette Neufeld, Director of the FAO Food and Nutrition Division, during her intervention at the event “Shaping consumers’ food choices”, organized by the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the Europ...

In the framework of the European Economic and Social Committee's discussions on an EU Blue Deal, an event called “An EU Blue Deal for a Water-Resilient Europe” was hosted by the Sustainable Development Observatory (SDO) and the Consultative Committee on Industrial Change (CCMI). ...

London 13-14 June 2024 - The EU-UN Financial and Administrative Framework Agreement (FAFA) Working Group, held its 19th Meeting at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) headquarters in London.  

The FAFA19 meeting brought together EU and UN partners to e...

The FISH4ACP team, in collaboration with the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels, hosted an event to update the Brussels audience on the significant progress made by the global aquatic value ch...

Raschad Al-Khafaji, Director of the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels, participated in the EU-UN Policy Dialogue on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Localization held at the European Committee of the Regions (CoR).  

With FAO being the co-chair of the Local2030 Coal...

Raschad Al-Khafaji, Director of the FAO Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium, participated at a plenary session of the Commission for Natural Resources (NAT) of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), where he presented FAO’s priorities and flagship initiatives. <...

Namur - The Board of Directors of the Walloon Public Service for Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment (SPW ARNE) invited the FAO Liaison Office to present the Organization’s work and exchange on enhancing future cooperation at the local level.  

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