FAO Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium

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 

19/01/2026
The world simultaneously grapples with the need to produce more food and the need to curb greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector. There are many different technological, or policy options under development and deployment aimed to address these challenges.  One of these options...
19/01/2026
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has welcomed the entry into force of the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (
13/01/2026
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Norway have launched a new project to support rural communities in frontline areas of Ukraine. The initiative will be implemented in Chernihivska, Dnipropetrovska and Mykolaivska oblasts, where rural household...
08/01/2026

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Government of Zimbabwe funded by the French Government, coordinated the Agricultural Voucher System as part of the Nourish and Thrive: Inclusive and Sustainable Nutrition and Livelihoods Init...

19/01/2026

Acute food insecurity has tripled since 2016 to nearly 300 million people, while humanitarian food sector funding has fallen back toward 2016 levels. Every dollar now has to achieve far more.   

Agriculture offers the strongest return: on average, each dollar invested in a...

09/01/2026

Sopo, a 31-year-old from Tsalka, is taking her first steps towards building a small cheese business with her mother.

“I’m planning to start a small cheese-making business,” she says. “Step by step, my mother and I are laying the foundations for a family-run business focused on quality. S...

07/01/2026

The FAO Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium looks back to 2025: a year of engagement, partnership, and impact.

This end-of-year video highlights key moments from 2025, as FAO marked its 80th anniversary and reinforced its commitment to transforming agrifood systems and end...

24/12/2025

More than 72,000 farming and herding families in the West Bank – nearly two-thirds of all agricultural families – urgently require emergency agricultural assistance, according to a...

01/01/2026

In 2022, an estimated 1.05 billion tons of food were wasted worldwide. Restaurants, canteens, and the broader food service sector accounted ...

24/12/2025

After a sharp decline in 2023, the global forest products sector saw signs of stabilization in 2024, according to Global forest products facts and figures 2024 , released today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Natio...

09/12/2025

Isis Núñez Ferrera, newly appointed Urban Agrifood Systems Coordinator at FAO’s Agrifood Systems and Food Safety Division, visited Brussels. The role reflects FAO’s strategic decision to strengthen its engagement with cities and surrounding territories as key entry points f...

12/12/2025

FAO Brussels visited the city’s oldest urban farm, La Ferme du Parc Maximilien, on the occasion of the installation of new educational information panels about the animals and plants of the farm.  

These FAO-funded pa...

03/12/2025

The 8th edition of the Copa and Cogeca Innovation Award for Women Farmers, held at...

16/12/2025

The FAO Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium and the Belgian Federal Public Service (FPS) Economy brought together international organizations, national authorities, and experts to discuss food inflation and price monitoring, based on the findings of the State...

27/11/2025

The EU-FAO partnership is at the forefront of advancing circular economy practices in Sri Lanka’s agrifood sector through the EU-funded Circular Economy in the Food Sector (CIRCULAR) project.  

FAO presented the CIRCULAR project at a rec...

15/12/2025

Under the theme “Securing Europe’s Food and Agriculture”, the 2025 edition of the Agri-Food Days was held in Brussels. This annual conference brings together leaders, experts, and stakeholders for three days of discussions on the future of...