FAO Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium

19/02/2026

After five years of coordinated work, the agricultural sector in Serbia is better prepared to face future climate risks. Through the project Strengthening Disaster Resilience in Agriculture, funded by the European Union and implemented from March 2021 to January 2026, climate resilience has be...

19/02/2026

A high‑level delegation from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) last week visited the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, with the shared goal of accelerating the transfer of nuclear-based agricultural innovations to country and r...

12/02/2026
Food loss and waste (FLW) can be a reservoir and even an accelerator for anti-microbial resistance (AMR), highligh...
12/02/2026

Kabul, Afghanistan – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the Government of France are supporting earthquake-affected communities in eastern Afghanistan to restore food security, improve nutrition, and...

11/02/2026

The International Day of Women and Girls in Science, observed each year on 11 February, highlights the vital contributions of women and girls to scientific progress and innova...

11/02/2026

Despite growing up in Kakheti, a well-known wine region and the agricultural heart of Georgia, Sophio Khutitdze saw herself as a doctor. She was always drawn to the sciences with chemistry and biology being her favourite classes in high school. She even applied to medical school and took the n...

10/02/2026
Fish fraud, in a variety of guises, is widespread in markets around the world, and there are a growing number of tools to combat it, according to a new report published by the ...
09/02/2026

World Pulses Day, 10 February, is an opportunity to celebrate the critical role these nutritious seeds play in addressing challenges of poverty, food security, nutrition, soil healt...

06/02/2026

The measure of world food commodity prices declined in January for the fifth consecutive month, led by lower international quotations for dairy, sugar and meat products, according to the benchmark...

© Belgium MFA
28/01/2026

Belgium presented its new Humanitarian Strategy, outlining its renewed vision to address global humanitarian needs through principled, coordinated, and forward-looking action. The event gathered Belgian institutions, humanitarian partners, EU representatives, and United Nations agenc...

27/01/2026

Youth leadership in transforming the agrifood systems was at the centre of exchanges held during a three‑day mission to Brussels of Mr Kazuki Kitaoka, Director of FAO’s Office of Youth and Women (OYW). 
 
...

03/02/2026

Africa’s push to accelerate sustainable agricultural mechanization gained fresh momentum today as the Prime Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania, Mwigulu L. Nchemba, launched Tanzania’s National Agricultural Mechanization Strategy 2026–2036 at the opening of the 

28/01/2026

FAO Assistant Director-General and Chief Veterinarian Thanawat Tiensin addressed the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, as well as the Parliament’s Sustainable Livestock Intergroup. During these exchanges, he presented FAO’s report Pathways towards ...

28/01/2026

FAO was invited to present at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) NAT Section debate on gender equality, focusing on the International Year of the Woman Farmer (IYWF 2026)&n...

02/02/2026

Wetlands are fundamental to global food security and nutrition. They support inland and coastal fisheries and aquaculture, and supply water for crops and livestock production. They also underpin the production of staple foods, particularly in human-made wetlands, such as rice paddies and ponds...

29/01/2026

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are implementing a $100 million initiative to bolster food and nutrition security and restore agricultural livelihoods for more than one million vulnerable people across Afghanistan.

Ov...

26/01/2026

Inside the Hagadera Refugee Camp located in Dadaab, eastern Kenya sits Mariam’s kitchen garden. This camp of semi-permanent corrugated metal houses and canvas tents has been her home for the last 19 years. She came here at 34 years old due to political unrest in her home country of Somalia, an...

26/01/2026

A high-level Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) mission to Haiti and the Dominican Republic this week underscored a central reality for the Caribbean: food security is a shared regional challenge, requiring both life-saving, emergency agricultural action to respond t...

21/01/2026

Across the United Nations system, International Days and Years have become powerful global platforms to highlight the world’s most pressing challenges, including food security and nutrition, equality, health, and environmental protection. Today, the UN marks more than 21...

19/01/2026

Agriculture ministers from more than 60 countries meeting at the 2026 Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) agreed that addressing water scarcity and competing uses requires placing agriculture at the core of water policy and governance. In the