Unlocking the full potential of forest-based bioeconomy to contribute to more sustainable economies and societies in Europe and beyond was the main theme of an FAO Brussels Briefing organized with the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The event follows previous engagemen...

With the focus on FAO’s efforts to support efforts in achieving both Sustainable Development Goal 2 and the 1.5 degree climate goal, FAO Chief Economist Maximo Torero intervened at an event organized by the Slovenian Mission to the EU with the title “Food systems and SDGs: National pathways an...

This is the Interview of the Month of June with Corinna Hawkes, FAO Director of the Food Systems and Food Safety Division

Congratulations on your new assignment Corinna! New in this position but definitely not new to food and nutrition. Before asking you how do you plan to support th...

FAO has joined the efforts of the upcoming  SDG Forum Belgium - the first multi-stakeholder forum on the SDGs in the Benelux. The Forum includes 18  organizations from the sustainable development sector, including the Belgian Federal Institute for Sustainable Development and strives ...

12 June is the World Day against Child Labor, and this year’s official FAO commemoration took place in Brussels.

With the support of ILO, FAO organized an FAO Brussels Briefing on the occasion with a number of partners and actors from governments, civil society and academia. The event t...

Upon invitation by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), FAO’s Land and Water Division Director LI Lifeng participated at the eighth Meeting of the EU-Africa Economic and Social Stakeholders' Network.

During his intervention Li cautioned that the linkages between water, agri...

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) Permanent Group on Sustainable Food Systems organized a session on the EU's contribution to the UN Food Systems Stocktaking Moment. 
The keynote speakers were Stefanos Fotiou, FAO Director of the Office of Sustainable Development Goals and...

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, re-elected on Sunday for a second term at the head of the Organization, delivered today his opening statement at the 43rd Session of FAO Conference (1-7 July), in which he stressed that it is tim...

 

Rome - QU Dongyu was today re-elected to a second term as Director...

The 43rd session of the FAO Conference (July 1-7) begins this Saturday at the Organization’s headquarters in ...

More than 200 parliamentarians (including six Members of the European Parliament), 15 presidents and vice-presidents of national and regional parliaments and parliamentary bodies from 64 countries participated at the Second Global Parliamentary Summit against Hunger and Malnutrition that took ...

Rome - Ministers, Vice-Ministers and other high-level representati...

Senior Animal Production Officer at FAO, Badi Besbes delivered a keynote speech on sustainable food systems and animal farming at the Annual General Meeting of the European Forum of Animal Farm Animal Breeders (EFFAB) and the Farm Animal Breeding and Reproduction Technology Platform (FABRE TP).&n...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has welcomed the approval by UN member states of a landmark legally binding agreement, under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in international waters, ...

Agrifood systems must be part of the solution to the loss of biodiversity and the climate crisis facing our planet, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today told a meeting of G20 Agriculture Ministers.

"Despite progress, to...

The Second Global Parliamentary Summit against Hunger and Malnutrition closed on Friday in Chile with a new Global Parliamentary Pact to work towards the transformation of agrifood systems and to promote the right to adequate food for all.

“This event has demonstrated that the first meetin...

Promoting agrifood systems that are more e...

On 24 May, FAO organized a webinar titled "How can the European Green Deal drive sustainability in the tropical fruit sector?" The event was held in collaboration with the European Commission and the Committee Linking Entrepreneurship Agriculture Development (COLEAD)

The webinar sh...

FAO Brussels Director Raschad Al-Khafaji briefed delegates from the Council Working Party on Humanitarian Aid and Food Aid (COHAFA) on the current global acute food insecurity situation. Invited by the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, his presentation shed a light on th...