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BELGIUM 2025: SDG Forum
13/11/2025

The FAO side event at the SDG Forum Belgium explored how agribusiness incubation can unlock the transformative power of MSMEs in delivering on the Sustainable...

Brussels World Food Day and 80th anniversary - Manneken-Pis ceremony
14/10/2025

On 15 October 2025, the Manneken-Pis statue in Brussels was dressed as an FAO field expert to celebrate FAO’s 80th anniversary and World Food Day 2025...

Launch of the European Union Funded Project on New Aquatic Food Value Chains (NAVAC)
20/10/2025

FAO and the European Union (EU) have launched NOVAC, an initiative to increase access to safe and nutritious aquatic foods for vulnerable populations...

International Day of Plant Health 2025 Celebration in Brussels
11/05/2025

On the occasion of the International Day of Plant Health, the team of the FAO Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium organized an intergenerational...

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Action Plan for the implementation of the FAO Strategy on Mainstreaming Biodiversity Across Agricultural Sectors 2024–2027
21/05/2024

The Action Plan for the implementation of the FAO Strategy on Mainstreaming Biodiversity across Agricultural Sectors 2024–2027 reflects experiences gained from the implementation of the 2021–2023 Action Plan. In alignment with the FAO Strategy on Mainstreaming Biodiversity across Agricultural Sectors, FAO implements the Action Plan based on the principles of effective governance, partnerships, a knowledge-based approach, inclusiveness, and gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Safeguarding the right to adequate food during pandemics and emergencies - Lessons from COVID-19
20/05/2024

The publication focuses on the access dimension of food security and nutrition (physical and economic access), notably through an analysis of national legislative responses related to markets and food supply chains as well as social protection.

Resilience Building in South Sudan
12/04/2024

This document reflects an analysis of ongoing FAO South Sudan resilience building interventions and how they contribute towards the five capacities for resilience building, namely: Preventive: reduce existing and future risks; Anticipative: act early; Absorptive: the ability to bounce back, overwhelmingly humanitarian (emergency response); Adaptive: incremental adjustments; Transformative: make fundamental changes to the system.

The Fish-Vet Dialogue: Improving communication and collaboration in aquatic organism health management
10/04/2024

The purpose of this Circular article is to inform national policymakers and other stakeholders of issues related to aquatic organism health and aquaculture biosecurity throughout the aquaculture supply and value chains, and to promote more effective collaboration between stakeholders to minimize risks of disease introduction, transmission, spread and associated production losses.

Checklists and technical guidelines to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing
03/04/2024

This document is the third volume of a series of publications entitled Checklists and Technical Guidelines to Combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing. This checklist provides a list of minimum requirements to ensure that the national MCS systems, operations, procedures and tools aimed at combating IUU fishing are of the desired standard to achieve the objectives of the fisheries management framework in place.

Compendium of forgotten foods in Africa
27/03/2024

The so-called forgotten food crops are nutritious, resilient and adaptable to local dietary practices. They thus offer a viable pathway to ensuring adequate food intake and dietary diversity, maintaining soil health, and achieving climate resilience amongst African farming communities. Mainstreaming forgotten foods in the daily diets of African communities should therefore be a core component of any attempts at sustainable food system transformation in the region.