Upon invitation by the Directorate General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, FAO presented at a meeting of the “Plateforme Agricole et de Sécurité Alimentaire (PASA)”. The platform brings together Belgian stakeholders and practitioners sp...

During a short one-day visit, the Chief Scientist held a roundtable on the role of science and innovation in achieving a fundamental transformation on agrifood system  and participated at the  2023 EU AgriResearch Conference, where she delivered a keynote speech.

The Roundtabl...

Vincent Martin, FAO’s newly appointed Director for the Office of Innovation (OIN) visited Brussels. He attended the “Global Conference on Sustainability in Agriculture & Food Systems – Innovation, Indicators & Implementation” which was organized by the nonpartisan think-thank Re-Imagin...

We need to talk about plastics. Plastic products have become a convenient tool in many areas of life, and agriculture is no different. Plastics are used for everything from seedling trays and irrigation tubing to pesticide containers and livestock feed bags. However, their proliferation has led t...

Upon invitation by the African Union (AU) Representation to the EU, FAO Brussels took part in commemorating Africa Day.

The Day was marked with a number of activities, including information sessions and seminars. FAO Brussels intervened during a seminar with the title “Acceleration of t...

A delegation from the European Parliament’s Committee on Development travelled to Senegal to assess the European Union’s development portfolio in the country. The focus areas of the mission included vaccine development, EU support to the Great Green Wall (GGW),climate adaptation of coastal com...

Acute food insecurity is set to potentially increase in magnitude and s...

Thank you for granting us this interview. You are the Inspector General of FAO. What does this role entail?  

In 1950 FAO created an internal audit unit, which eventually became the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the late 1990s.  Today, the work...

"Uganda is Africa in miniature," said Susan Ngongi Namondo, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Uganda, at the wrap up of the Flexible Voluntary Contribution (FVC) Resource Partners' Field Trip, held in Uganda from 1 to 5 May. "All the development challenges that are faced in the rest of the A...

They span the globe and embrace diverse terrains, from stone terraced c...

The benchmark index of international food commodity prices rose in April for the first time in a year, amid increases in world quotations for sugar, meat and rice, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported today.

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The number of people experiencing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, with over a quarter of a billion facing acute hunger and people in seven countries on the brink of starvation, according to ...

“Rethinking allocation of public spending in order to repurpose food and agricultural policies is urgently needed,” said FAO Deputy Director of Agrifood Economics division, Marco Sanchez, during a virtual session on “Financing Food Security and Food Systems Transformation.”

The event, ho...

How can historical insights improve foresight planning for agrifood systems transformation? That was the central question of an International Workshop, jointly organized by FAO and the Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies (BrIAS), with the title “Re-imagining...