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ADG REU Viorel Gutu visit April 2025
03/04/2025

Visit of Viorel Gutu, FAO Assistant Director-General, Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia to Brussels in April 2025.

FAO-Belgium Strategic Dialogue
26/01/2025

FAO and the Kingdom of Belgium held a strategic dialogue to solidify years-long collaboration on ensuring food security around the world.

FAO-University of Ghent Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
27/01/2025

FAO and Ghent University signed a collaboration agreement sharing a vision for transforming agrifood systems.

Belgium SDG Forum 2024
05/11/2024

Climate Finance for Agrifood Systems as a Tool to Accelerate Progress Towards the 2030 Agenda

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The triple gap in finance for agrifood systems
13/02/2025

This report presents the first comprehensive analysis of climate finance needs for agrifood systems to help meet the 1.5-degree objective. It also aims to better inform decision-makers and investors in the agrifood space. Establishing this baseline for financial needs can help to track action against the efforts required to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

Government expenditures in agriculture 2001–2023: Global and regional trends
11/02/2025

Since 2012, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has collected government expenditure on agriculture (GEA) data through a questionnaire sent annually in May to more than 190 countries. This brief analyses the latest data available in FAOSTAT, for the period 2001–2023, at global and regional levels.

Accessing finance to invest in agrifood
05/02/2025

This brief focuses on the impacts of finance access on farmers’ investments and how it can enable investments in farms and businesses. It examines experimental and quasi-experimental evidence around farmers’ and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) access to finance, the economic impacts of financial services on investments, and the constraints of accessing finance in lower-middle-income countries (LMICs).

Mchezo Ya Kuku - A multiplayer poultry production card game for social learning
04/02/2025

This publication discusses a no-tech game supported by USAID, the SWM Programme, and EU funding, aimed at fostering social learning for community-led conservation and development. It highlights how games that are enjoyable, and simple, and promote learning through experience and failure can strengthen social cohesion. The game ultimately enhances adaptive social learning for conservation efforts.

Sustainable nitrogen management in agrifood systems
31/01/2025

This FAO report provides a comprehensive overview of nitrogen's role, and the challenges associated with its use in agrifood systems. It explores solutions for improving nitrogen management in crop and livestock systems to enhance nitrogen use efficiency while reducing pollution. Additionally, it highlights the potential of circular bioeconomy approaches to optimize nitrogen management and minimize nitrogen losses.

Gender transformative change for climate action
31/01/2025

This technical study highlights the role of discriminatory social institutions, unequal power relations and agency in influencing climate resilience processes for sustainable agrifood systems. It also defines core characteristics of gender transformative change in climate resilience programming and presents a collection of climate change interventions that address different dimensions of gender transformative change and the management of disaster risks in agrifood systems.

The Food Systems Countdown Report 2024
14/01/2025

This brief presents the Food Systems Countdown Initiative indicators depicting the current state of national food systems. In doing so, it provides a starting point for future work to identify where things can be done better, provide ideas for how to get there and inspire stakeholders (in particular, policymakers) that progress can and must be made.

The Financing Flows and Food Crises report
07/01/2025

The Financing Flows and Food Crises report is an annual publication produced by the Global Network Against Food Crises, in collaboration with Development Initiatives. It provides a comprehensive overview of financing flows related to food crises and offers insights into how international financial allocations address acute food insecurity.