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FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

In their pursuit to ensure an equitable and sustainable future, governments can rely on FAO expertise in food and agriculture. Responding to the needs of Europe and Central Asia, the Organization is offering support in many specific areas. Find out more

Highlights
Regional Priority Programmes
The three Regional Priority Programmes provide an integrated, programmatic approach to addressing the region’s priority issues, and guide the implementation of country programmes. Most of FAO’s work in the region contributes to one or more of these priority programmes, with food and nutrition security as a cross-cutting area of work.
Empowering smallholders, family farms and youth
Regional Priority Programme
Empowering smallholders, family farms and youth through inclusive rural transformation, digitalization and innovation
Transforming food systems and facilitating market access and integration
Regional Priority Programme
Transforming food systems and facilitating market access and integration
Managing natural resources sustainably and preserving biodiversity in a changing climate
Regional Priority Programme
Managing natural resources sustainably and preserving biodiversity in a changing climate
Recent and upcoming events

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2026

17/1

2026

FAO at the 2026 Global Forum for Food and Agriculture
Berlin (Germany), 14/01/2026 - 17/01/2026

The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) is an international conference on central issues of global agricultural and food policies, held in Berlin on an annual basis. The 2026 GFFA is organized by the German Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity from 14 to 17 January in Berlin, under the overarching theme: Water. Harvests. Our Future.

Featured publications
Irrigation service delivery and management transfer in Central Asia, Türkiye, and Azerbaijan
2025

This FAO volume examines three decades of irrigation management reform in the FAO Subregional Office for Central Asia region, tracing the transition from the state-led “hydraulic mission” to farmer-based irrigation management transfer (IMT). While IMT was widely promoted as a means to improve efficiency, sustainability, and equity through water users' associations (WUAs), outcomes have been highly uneven, with successes, partial rollbacks, and even reversals.

Improving dairy cattle health and productivity
2025

This highly visual set of training materials focuses on core farm-level practices known to impact animal health and production outcomes, such as colostrum management, calfhousing, nutrition, milking hygiene, and biosecurity. Each topic can be covered in a short, focused session (30–90 minutes), ideally combining discussion, visual aids, and on-farm demonstration.

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