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...

On 5th and 6th of October 2022, the Regional Conference on Food Loss and Waste Reduction in Europe and Central Asia took place in a hybrid modality in Istanbul (Türkiye)...

With the financial support of The Fleming Fund and the Government of the United Kingdom, FAO Development Law Service (LEGN) has launched AMR-LEX, a subset of FAO-LEX, the world's largest...

On the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, the FAO Development Law Service (LEGN) has released a legal brief on Enabling a legal environment for the prevention...

On 3 August 2022, the National Assembly of Nicaragua held an event to examine  legislative experiences on school feeding programs. The Development Law Service (LEGN) participated in this activity, in...

NEW legal brief for parliamentarians: “Legislating to prevent and reduce food loss and waste”   Food loss and waste (FLW) is a serious problem, occurring in a global and regional context in...

The Legal Paper provides a fresh outlook on the legal options available to lawyers, policy makers and parliamentarians to achieve substantive gender equality in tenure rights. It puts a spotlight on...

LEGN participó en el seminario sobre legislación veterinaria organizado por el IICA en colaboración con CARIVET, CIRAD, FAO, la OMSA y otras organizaciones nacionales e internacionales que trabajan en el...

Family farming is essential for rural development and for achieving food and nutritional security for the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. Legislating about it sets permanent regulatory foundations...