Mr Paolo De Castro is a Member of the European Parliament, Member of the European Parliament’s Committee of Agriculture and Rural Development and Member of the European Parliamentary Alliance against...

The 2020 edition of the annual report of the Global Network against Food Crises, The Global Report on Food Crises, provides an analysis of the drivers that are contributing to...

Over 400 participants tuned in to the first edition of the FAO Brussels Dialogues. This is a new series launched by the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels to share FAO’s...

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu held virtual talk with Phil Hogan, the European Commissioner for Trade. Both parties stressed their full agreement on the importance of keeping food supply chains open...

In an online discussion with Janez Lenarčič, the European Commissioner for Crisis Management, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu thanked the EU for its unwavering and solid support of FAO’s work –...

Task Force members included the European Union, the African Development Bank, the World Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the World Food Programme(WFP) and the African Union Development...

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu held virtual talks today with Jutta Urpilainen, European Commissioner for International Partnerships. Both parties agreed to step up joint efforts to support the fight against hunger...

Members of Parliament from Latin America and Europe  held a virtual meeting today on ways to strengthen cooperation on hunger and malnutrition, especially in light of the added suffering caused...

Tackling both immediate and future needs is the key to truly sustainable development, even amid emergency situations like the COVID-19 pandemic. FAO’s Deputy Director-General (Programmes) Beth Bechdol, met with Marjeta...

World food commodity prices declined for the third month in a row during April, as the economic and logistical impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant contractions in demand...

As COVID-19 increasingly affects people and livelihoods in Africa, urgent solutions to ensure food security and build resilience in Africa were discussed during the second FAO Brussels virtual dialogue. Over...

Janusz Wojciechowski, the European Union Commissioner for Agriculture and FAO Director-GeneralQU Dongyu renewed their commitment today to work together to make agriculture more innovative and environmentally friendly, with the aim...

On June 5, we celebrate World Environment Day, while the world is going through an unprecedented crisis. Biodiversity and the environment are threatened. Could you give us in two sentences...

FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, and the European Union Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, today discussed ways to strengthen collaboration on a number of issues, including the prevention...

The invisible pandemic: hunger in times of covid-19.We must act now so that this invisible pandemic does not advance any further. Otherwise, the numbers of hunger and malnutrition will increase....

FAO Director-General QU Dongyu met with Olivér Várhelyi, European Union Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Environment (NEAR), today and emphasized the importance of ongoing cooperative support for countries in the EU’s...

The world is facing unprecedented challenges because of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the immediate global priority is to tackle this public health emergency, our long-term response must address the disruption...

Women tend to be more vulnerable to the socio-economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and measures which have been taken to contain the virus. This is one of the observations...

The virtual discussion entitled "The European Green Deal: A Conversation on the Transformative Force of the EU Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies to build Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems"...

Talks today between FAO Director-General QU Dongyu and the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for the European Green Deal and European Commissioner for Climate Action, Frans Timmermans, focused on...