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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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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.

The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security 2023
04/11/2023

The FAO flagship report on ‘The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security’ provides a timely and comprehensive overview of how disasters are affecting agriculture and food security around the world. Building on previous work of the FAO on this topic, the report estimates losses caused by disasters on agricultural production over the past three decades and delves into the diverse threats and impacts affecting the crops, livestock, forestry, and fisheries and aquaculture subsectors.

Food Outlook – Biannual report on global food markets
01/11/2023

FAO's latest forecasts point to favourable production outlooks across most basic foodstuffs. However, global food production systems remain vulnerable to shocks, stemming from extreme weather events, and rising geopolitical tensions and policies, potentially tipping the delicate demand-supply balances, dampening prospects for international trade in food commodities and with implications for global food security.