Did you know that Sunday 5 June is World Environment Day? This year’s World Environment Day marks the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which was founded at the landmark 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, co-organized by FAO. FAO is also a key partner in...

(This article was first published on the FAO Science, Technology and Innovation website.) The world’s agrifood systems are currently facing several serious challenges. These include climate change, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, conflict, and high levels of social inequity. The challenges largely result from economic systems that have failed to fully recognize and...

BIC General Assembly marks ten years of the European Union Bioeconomy Strategy FAO was at the forefront of discussions at the General Assembly of the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC), which took place in Brussels on 18-19 May. For the occasion, BIC Executive Director Dirk Carrez invited Lev Neretin, lead of FAO’s...

Did you know that 22 May is the United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity? Biological diversity is often understood in terms of the wide variety of plants, animals and microorganisms, but it also includes genetic differences within each species — for example, between varieties of crops and breeds of livestock...

The potential of the growing bioeconomy sector was at the forefront of discussions at the General Assembly of the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC), which took place in Brussels. Presenting FAO’s new sustainable bioeconomy programme to experts from the European Union institutions were Lev Neretin, lead of FAO’s programme priority area...