FAO Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium

30/04/2024

New York – In the face of intensifying El Niño and La Niña weather events, effective anticipatory action is crucial to shield and better equip communities ahead of shocks as it helps to save lives and protect livelihoods by preventing damage and losses to crops, livestock, productive lands, wa...

13/05/2024

The Republic of Moldova will host the Thirty-fourth Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Europe (ERC) from 14 to 17 May 2024. The ERC will gather FAO Members in the Europe and Central Asia region, as well as representatives of United Nations Funds, Programmes and Specialized Agencies. Th...

21/05/2024

The FAO Liaison Office in Brussels is delighted to celebrate the first International Day of Potato on Monday, 27 May 2024, in Brussels, at the Residence Palace. The event, which is co-organized with the Embassy of Peru in Belgium, will feature high-level interventions from FAO, Belgium, a...

10/05/2024

Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is marking this year’s International Day of Plant Health by shining a light on the importance of leveraging innovation to p...

14/05/2024
Rome –  While countries in Europe and Central Asia are grappling with conflict and environmental challenges, they are well positioned to pursue the sustainable transformation of agrifood systems and have already taken steps towards achieving many of the core Sustainable Development Goals (
17/05/2024

Rome — The 34th Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Europe (ERC) ended today following four days of exchanges on the steps needed to transform agrifood systems in Europe and Central Asia.

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14/05/2024

* By QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Europe and Central Asia have a great potential for the global contribution to food security by producing more with less. However, the challenges to our shared vision of a more people-cen...

18/04/2024

Brussels, 18-19 April – Cameroon’s Cocoa and Coffee Interprofessional Council (CICC), FAO and the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), organized a two-day workshop in Brussels on the theme of Agroforestry systems in Cameroon and around the world: what...

16/04/2024

16 and 17 April 2024, Brussels |In a two-day visit to Brussels, FAO Deputy Director-General Maurizio Martina met FAO partners and engaged in conversations to enhance collaboration aimed at fostering transformative initiatives also in preparation for the Thirty-fourth session of the FAO Re...

21/04/2024

Mohamed Manssouri, Director of FAO Investment Centre, participated at the World Cocoa Conference 2024 held in Brussels, Belgium, from 21 to 24 April, where he shared his v...

30/04/2024

FAO Brussels Director, Raschad Al-Khafaji, shared updates on the Fish4ACP project to the delegates of the ACP and CODEV Working Parties of the Council of the Europe...

22/04/2024

Lifeng LI, FAO Director of the Land and Water Division, joined a hearing hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) on the pressing topic of water politics and their implications for the empowerment of youth, women, indigenous, and local communities. LI’s intervention foc...

06/05/2024

Rome- Earth Map, a pioneering initiative by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) that leverages freely available archives of geospatial data for climate and environment monitoring and mapping has been honoured with a 

09/04/2024

Brussels, Geneva, New York and Rome, 9 April 2024 – The sixth edition of the FAO SIDS Solutions Dialogue focused on agricultural trade trends, challenges, and opportunities specific to Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The hybrid event held in Geneva explored the role of trade in tra...

15/04/2024

Brussels, 15 April – The FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU), supported by the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels, organized a pre-consultation with private sector representatives in Brussels ahead of the Forty-fourth session of the

17/04/2024

Ghent, 17 April - The need to expand partnerships to foster healthier diets and better global nutrition was the main message of an event jointly organized by FAO Brussels, the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and Ghent University, at the Ghent University Museum.&nb...

02/05/2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) welcomes the resolution adopted today by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly to declare 2026 as the International Year of the Woman Farmer.  

The resolution, which was proposed by the United States of America and...

26/04/2024

The second meeting for the Steering Committee of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on the implementation of One Country One Priority Product

25/04/2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today announced the launch of a new action-oriented, country-focused initiative to reduce the need for antimicrobials on farms, amid the growing threat posed by 

26/04/2024

Details surrounding the World Food Forum (WFF) 2024 including this year’s theme: “Good food for al...