FAO Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium

03/10/2023

The City of Valencia hosted productive dialogue on “Urban public policies against food loss and waste” during a conference co-organized b...

16/10/2023
On World Food Day, the Coalition Against Hunger, a group of 20 Belgian NGOs,  hosted at the Belgian Federal Parliament a seminar under the theme “End Hunger: Mission Impossible? Why is the fight against hunger fa...
19/10/2023

FAO Brussels  participated and moderated an academic seminar organized by UC Louvain on the occasion of World Food Day 2023.

FAO Brussels welcomed the participants together with Marnik Vanclooster, Head of the Earth and Life Institute at UCLouvain and UNESCO's Europe Director Louise...

10/10/2023

Blue transformation outlines a vision to expand aquatic food systems and increase their contribution to nutritious and affordable healthy diets. Leaving no one behind. This was one of the main messages conveyed to FAO’s partners by Manuel Barange, FAO Assistant Director-General and Director of...

19/10/2023

With only seven agricultural seasons left before 2030, time is running out. If we want to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, we must act together and act decisively, now.
In the framework of FAO’s privileged partnership with Belgium, FAO Brussels Director Raschad 
Al-Khafaji...

16/10/2023

The FAO Liaison Office in Brussels marked World Food Day together with partners, colleagues and friends of FAO on 16 October during a commemoration that took place in the Royal Museum of Natural History in Brussels.

With the participation of more than 110 guests, and with colleagues conn...

18/10/2023

Gender-transformative approaches are cost-effective in transforming agrifood systems. Closing the gender gap in land tenure has benefits on employment, investment, natural resource management, access to services, resilience, and food security. This is one of the main takeaways of the report “<...

16/10/2023

The global ceremony marking this year’s World Food Day 2023 took place here today, against a backdrop of increasing world hunger and conflicts. In parti...

18/10/2023

To bolster a full-spectrum response to the global need to achieve sustainable agrifood systems, the heads of two United Nations agencies announced a new initiative called Atoms4Food to offer Member countries assistance in strategic planning, increasing food production and food safety.

13/10/2023

Over the last 30 years, an estimated $3.8 trillion worth of crops and livestock production has been lost due to disaster events, corresponding to an average loss of $123 billion per year or 5 percent of annual global agricultural gross domestic product (GDP), according to 

17/10/2023

The second Hand-in-Hand Investment Forum began today, intent on quadrupling the more than $3 billion in fresh resources proposed in the inaugural event in 2022 to invest in poverty reduction, improved food security and sus...

19/10/2023

Some of them create delicious foods or vibrant gardens, some raise people’s awareness of the crucial issues we face through their advocacy or through sport or music. Special guests, including Food Heroes, influencers and innovators gathered at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organ...

20/10/2023

The second edition of the Science and Innovation Forum, a key constituent of the annual flagship World Food Forum, closed here on Fri...

20/10/2023

The third annual World Food Forum flagship event hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has drawn to a successful close, with attendees from across the world celebrating a ...

19/10/2023

The finalists of the World Food Forum’s global startup competition, pitched their ventures centering on ways to create sustainable agrifood systems, at the Startup Innovat...

06/09/2023

Upon invitation by the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU, FAO’s Director for Emergencies and Resilience Rein Paulsen presented the critical situation of global food insecurity and FAO's work on anticipatory action (AA) to the Working Party on Humanitarian Aid and Food Aid (COHAFA).

27/09/2023

During the first semester of 2023, FAO and the Swedish Presidency of the EU Council demonstrated an excellent collaboration through joint events and actions that highlighted the strength of the FAO-EU partnership.

FAO contributed to different sessions of EU Council Working Parties led by...

29/09/2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Liaison Office in Brussels and the UN Environment Programme Brussels Office celebrated jointly this year’s International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste. Participants included policymakers from European, national and regional levels, UN staff s,...
08/09/2023

The Director of FAO's Office of Statistics, José Alejandro Rosero Moncayo, participated at a public hearing on “Sustainable agriculture: past, present and future – the role of data and indicators’’, organised by the Committee on Agriculture and Rural development and the Committee on Environmen...

07/09/2023

On 19 October, this year’s edition of the Belgian SDG Forum will take place in Brussels.

It is the first multistakeholder forum dedicated to the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030 in the Benelux. Initia...