Rome, 13 March 2023 For the first time, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) featured among the international institutions visited by the Nippon Foundation Fellows, as part...

On 7 March 2023, the Executive Director of the National Institute of Student Welfare (INABIE) of the Dominican Republic, Mr Victor Castro, accompanied by a delegation from the Food and...

At a time of accelerating change and increasing pressures on rural livelihoods, achieving substantive equality between women and men has never been so imperative. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination...

Source: FAO Liaison Office in Brussels website Blaise you are Chief of the Development Law service at FAO. But I suspect you don’t really do typical lawyer work. Can you tell us...

The Codex Alimentarius defines antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as “the ability of a microorganism to multiply or persist in the presence of an increased level of an antimicrobial agent relative to the susceptible counterpart of the same species” (Codex Alimentarius Commission, 2011, p. 4). AMR refers to microorganisms – bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites – that have acquired resistance to antimicrobial (AM) substances (FAO, 2016).

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH, formerly OIE) have worked together for decades to address risks at the human–animal–environment interface. Since the adoption of the Manhattan principles in 2004 and the Berlin principles in 2019, the approach used has become known as “One Health”.  

In 2020, at the initiative of the Parliamentary Front Against Hunger of Ecuador, with the support of the Youth Parliamentary Front Against Hunger of Ecuador, and with FAO’s technical assistance,...

Source: Brussels in Brief - January 2023 / Issue #56 Legislative frameworks play a crucial role in fostering transformative change towards sustainable agrifood systems. This was the main message delivered by FAO’s...

Rome, Italy The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) focused...

December 13, 2022 The Development Law Service took part in a hybrid modality dialogue on “Gaps and Opportunities for a Model Law on Agrifood Cooperatives”, to discuss the drafting of a...

On the day of commemoration of the adoption of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights in 1948, celebrated annually as Human Rights Day on 10 December, LEGN showcases its contribution...

Cape Town, 23 November 2022 The Development Law Service (LEGN) and the Equitable Livelihoods team (NFIFL) of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division jointly launched SSF-LEX at the 4th World Small-Scale Fisheries...

Saly, Senegal, 21-25 November 2022 FAO held a national workshop in Senegal to develop a National Strategy and Roadmap for effective implementation of the 2009 FAO Agreement on Port State Measures...

Last 22 of November, in collaboration with the AMR team in the FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, LEGN coordinated a regional workshop to present the “One...

CITES-LEX: a proposal to strengthen the knowledge about CITES implementing legislation and facilitate the making of Legal Acquisition Findings Panama City, 22 November 2022 The CITES CoP Side Event “30 Years of...

Panama City, 18 November 2022 The Development Law Service (LEGN) co-hosted a CITES COP 19 Side Event on “Partnerships for legal, sustainable and traceable trade in commercially exploited aquatic species”. Together...

Rome, 14 - 18 November 2022 LEGN’s participation in the 15th FAO/WHO Joint Meeting on Pesticide Management (JMPM), consolidated LEGN’s support to the Secretariat of JMPM, hosted by the Pesticide Risk...

Singapore, 7 - 11 November 2022 The 7th edition of the World One Health Congress was attended by an FAO delegation which included the Development Law Service, LEGN. LEGN was invited to...

Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Side Event The CFS Side Event 17 of the 50th Session of the Committee on World Food Security was jointly hosted by the FAO Development Law...

The regional project "Working together to fight Antimicrobial Resistance", was funded by the European Union (EU) and was jointly managed and coordinated by three organizations in the region, FAO, WOAH...