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

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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.
Recent and upcoming events

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Hybrid Event, 02/04/2025 - 03/04/2025

The UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Regional Forum on Sustainable Development is an annual, inclusive intergovernmental forum to support follow-up and review of progress on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the regional level. It will be organized from 2-3 April 2025 under the theme: “Advancing sustainable, inclusive, science- ...

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Geneva (Switzerland), Hybrid Event, 02/04/2025

Join us for the launch of the Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2024 at 13:15 p.m. on 2 April, when FAO and the co-publishing partners will reveal the latest food security and nutrition trends for Europe and Central Asia and present the specific subtheme of the report ‘Managing water resources sustainable for improved food security and nutrition.’ The hybrid event will feature a ...

Featured publications
2025

In this edition, we explore how women’s empowerment is catalyzing change within agrifood systems and provide insights from FAO’s Gender Week that highlight advances in gender equality. We also discuss how FAO contributed to championing the transformation of agrifood systems at COP29. A special focus is given to the Country Gender Assessment in rural Georgia, which outlines effective solutions for combating gender inequality in the country.

2025

The advance of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a major threat to human, animal, plant and environmental health. While countries have committed to developing National Action Plans (NAPs) on AMR, efforts have predominantly focused on human health, with limited attention given to the food and agriculture sectors. This project supported Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in addressing this gap by strengthening their NAPs on AMR with a focus on the food and agriculture sectors.

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