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...

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...