To mark the 2025 Desertification and Drought Day, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is launching Living Land – Taking a sustainable land management approach in...

The IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) held its 4th World Environmental Law Congress from 5 to 7 May 2025 in Rabat, Morocco. Under the theme “Integrated Legal Protection...

On 23 May 2025, the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) hosted a high-level side event at its headquarters in Rome, Italy. The event focused on two...

Over 20 legal experts, researchers and development practitioners gathered at FAO headquarters in Rome on 21–22 May 2025 for a key consolidation workshop on FAO’s new legal diagnostic tool dedicated...

As part of the 13th Session of the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) Sub-Committee on Aquaculture, the FAO Development Law Service (LEGN) hosted a side event focusing on “Strengthening legal...

On 15 May 2025, FAO presented a draft bill to Chile’s Ministry of Education and the National Board of School Aid and Scholarships (JUNAEB), laying the foundation for a new...

From 25 to 28 April 2025, over 90 parliamentarians and government focal points from nine Central African countries were trained in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, within the framework of...

A new Legal Brief published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) explores how gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) can support the realization of women’s and girls’ right...

The Development Law Service (LEGN), in collaboration with the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division and in partnership with the EAF-Nansen Programme, delivered the first regional workshop on strengthening policy and legal...

The FAO Development Law Service (LEGN) appears before the Andean Parliament (PARLANDINO) to present FAO’s views on a revised “Regulatory Framework for Food Security with Nutritional Quality and Respect for...

Colombia enshrines the Right to Adequate Food for all in its Constitution On 6 February 2025, the Congress of Colombia adopted Legislative Act No. 1, amending Article 65 of the...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has released a new publication titled Collection of legal briefs to eradicate hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean: a...

On 19 and 20 March 2025 a national workshop on biosafety legislation was held which gathered representatives of 12 different governmental institutions, as well as over 70 participants joining online,...

School food and nutrition education (FNE) is fundamental to promote healthy eating and hygiene habits, necessary for the realization of the right to adequate food (FAO, 2020). In this context, the Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security call for measures that promote healthy consumption habits (FAO, 2004).

In a historic ruling (Judgment T-123 of 2024) of April 2024, the Colombian Constitutional Court, while reviewing an action for the protection of fundamental rights, decided to recognize the existence of internally displaced persons as a result of environmental factors.

In December 2024, the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (Parlatino) approved two new Model Laws drafted with the technical and legal support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), including the contribution of the Development Law Service of the Legal Office (LEGN).

Food e-commerce –selling and buying food online – is experiencing a global boom (Reardon et al. 2022). As a relatively new practice, food e-commerce poses a number of regulatory issues which lawmakers in many jurisdictions have recently started to consider.

Legal and policy overviews are now available on the IWRM Action Hub The integration of AQUALEX data into country profiles is a new feature on the Global Water Partnership’s (GWP) Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Action Hub.   AQUALEX is a

The development and enforcement of appropriate legal frameworks is critical to help conserve wildlife, reduce poverty and improve food security. LEGN supports the Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme in multiple...

Rome, 21 February 2025. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) runs a training programme in Hamburg, Germany, with the support of the Nippon Foundation. For a third...