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This year´s International Symposium focuses on how  innovative and sustainable rural development  supports family famers in GIAHS sites.

We are delighted to inform you that the laureate of 2023 IFLA Europe Award is GIAHS - Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation! Endo Yoshihide, GIAHS Coordinator at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) received it on behalf of the UN FAO GIAHS Secretariat.  

Under the framework of the Japanese trust fund project “Support through GIAHS Programme to the International Activities for Sustainable Family Farming (GCP/GLO/283/JPN)”, the FAO GIAHS Secretariat organizes yearly Symposiums to highlight the relevance of the GIAHS approach to the UN Decade on Family Farming from different angles. The International Symposium on GIAHS and Family Farming 2022 shared the experiences from a variety of stakeholders and experts regarding the lessons learnt from...

To raise awareness of the importance of work to strengthen urban agrifood systems in the region of Europe and Central Asia, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized a webinar in early June focusing on the challenges and opportunities in urban food agrifood systems faced by countries in the region.