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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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Pathways towards lower emissions
11/12/2023

This FAO report presents a comprehensive global assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock systems, utilizing FAO’s Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM) based on the most recent available data. GLEAM also considers indirect emissions from upstream activities, such as feed and other inputs, and part of the downstream processes including post-farm transport, processing and packaging of raw products.

Agrifood solutions to climate change
01/12/2023

Amid a worsening climate crisis and slow progress in cutting greenhouse gases, sustainable agrifood systems practices can help countries and communities to adapt, build resilience and mitigate emissions, ensuring food security and nutrition for a growing global population. FAO is working with countries and partners from government to community level to simultaneously address the challenges of food security, climate change and biodiversity loss.

The transformative role of agriculture in refugee settings
01/12/2023

This publication shares the individual stories of South Sudanese refugees and host communities in Uganda and Kenya that have benefited from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ (FAO’s) agricultural livelihood interventions in refugee settings. It explores FAO’s life-saving and resilience-building work with refugees, and calls for a shift in the way durable solutions are achieved.

World Food and Agriculture – Statistical Yearbook 2023
29/11/2023

This publication offers a synthesis of the major factors at play in the global food and agricultural landscape. Statistics are presented in four thematic chapters, covering the economic importance of agricultural activities, inputs, outputs and factors of production, their implications for food security and nutrition and their impacts on the environment.

Latin America and the Caribbean - Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2023
08/11/2023

The 2023 edition of the Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean presents an update of the data and trends in food security and nutrition in recent years. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis and the conflict in Ukraine, as well as the economic slowdown, rising food inflation and income inequality have had an impact on regional figures.

The State of Food and Agriculture 2023
06/11/2023

This year's edition looks into the true cost of food for sustainable agrifood systems. The report introduces the concept of hidden environmental, health, and social costs and benefits of agrifood systems and proposes an approach – true cost accounting (TCA) – to assess them.