The FAO Global Agrifood Biotechnologies Conference 2025, held from 16 to 18 June at FAO headquarters in Rome, brought together experts, policymakers, and practitioners to explore how biotechnological innovation can help transform agrifood systems. Under the theme “Biotechnologies for a Sustainable Future: Driving Agrifood Systems Transformation”, the conference emphasized the...

This technical session aims to share good practices in integrating bioeconomy to scale biotechnology and key synergies between them such as bioinformatics to support biodiversity conservation, or industrial biotechnologies to valorize biological resources within agrifood systems. This session also discusses the current issues of sustainability assessments and barriers to adoption...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation on genetic engineering and biotechnological solutions in support of transforming agrifood systems. The agreement underscores both organizations’ commitment to...

FAO has launched a global, written consultation to explore the development of a multistakeholder global partnership on bioeconomy for sustainable food and agriculture. All inputs are welcome by the new extended deadline of 31 May 2025. Respondents are invited to share the survey widely among their networks. The survey can be...

The 17th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA), under the theme ‘Farming a Sustainable Bioeconomy’, was held from 15 to 18 January 2025 in Berlin, Germany, organized by the Federal Ministry for Food and Agriculture of Germany (BMEL). The FAO Bioeconomy team, led by Kaveh Zahedi, Director of the...