FAO Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium

29/11/2023

Since 2007, the Regional Government of Flanders (Belgium) and Malawi have been working together in the agricultural field, with FAO involved as an implementing partner.

The latest Country Strategy Paper for the Flanders-Malawi Cooperation for 2024-2028 was launched in early Novembe...

06/11/2023

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) held a

27/10/2023

Zitouni Ould-Dada, Deputy Director of the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Environment, participated in the European Climate Stocktake, an event aimed at evaluating progress made towards achieving the Paris Agreement objectives within the EU and beyond. 

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03/11/2023

FAO Chief Economist Máximo Torero embarked on a brief mission to Brussels for an exchange of views with the Council of the EU via its Working Party on International Food and Agricultural Questions (AGRIFAO).  

01/12/2023

Throughout the month of November, FAO experts participated in key events in Brussels, contributing to discussions on vital topics related to climate change, agriculture, and sustainable agrifood systems.

Rosa Rolle, FAO's Senior Enterprise Development Officer, participated at the 14th me...

17/11/2023

FAO Brussels Director Raschad Al-Khafaji and World Food Forum (WFF) Head of Youth Action and Policy, Pramisha Thapaliya, participated in the Joint meeting of the Sustainable Development Observatory (SDO) and Permanent Study Group on Sustainable Food Systems (PSG) entitled “Sustainable foo...

24/11/2023

The FAO Liaison Office in Brussels paid tribute to FAO’s Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) flagship initiative with an in-person event to celebrate the achievements of the programme and its crucial role in preserving traditional agricultural systems and revitalizing...

01/12/2023

Agrifood systems are facing an escalating threat from climate change-induced loss and damage, and actions – including increasing financing— must be taken to address their vulnerabilities, according to a new...

01/12/2023

Food security and climate change are interlinked and global agrifood systems are the climate solution, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, told Heads of State and Government reunited at the 

20/11/2023

Fighting global hunger requires greater and better investments in science, technology and innovation to ensure that our agrifood systems are able to produce more with less while leaving no one behind, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) tol...

20/11/2023

The role of seeds in addressing global challenges, such as loss of biodiversity and climate change, and the need for greater variety in the world’s “food basket” of key crops has come into sharp focus amid multiple crises and will be at the core of discussions as the governing body of the trea...

27/11/2023

The global food standards body, the Codex Alimentarius Commission began...

29/11/2023

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched today its annual Statistical Yearbook, covering the latest trends in the world’s agrifood systems and highlighting for t...

24/11/2023

Olive production dates back thousands of years and continues to play a vital role in Tunisia's economy to this day, with olive groves covering about a third of the North African country's arable land. However, while Tunisia ranks third among the top exporters of olive oil in the world, most of...

27/11/2023

As the world grapples with the urgency of climate action, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will highlight at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference COP28 the unique potential of agrifoo...

20/11/2023

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global threat of increasing concern to human and animal health. It also has implications for food safety, food security, and the economic well-being of millions of farming households.

In time for the World AMR Awareness Week, discover how FAO is ...

15/11/2023
Following the outbreak of conflict in Sudan in April 2023, plunging nearly half the population into a humanitarian crisis, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) distributed nearly 10,000 tonnes of seeds to 1 million farming households – or 5 million people – in time fo...
06/11/2023

Our current agrifood systems impose huge hidden costs on our health, the environment and society, equivalent to at least $10 trillion a year, according to a ground-breaking analysis by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), covering 154 countries. This represents al...

31/10/2023

The compelling and intertwined challenges that the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are facing and the need to address them through an agrifood systems approach to strengthen resilience and support achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) took a central stage at the fifth e...