FAO is renewing and strengthening its efforts to meet the global climate emergency with its new Strategy on Climate Change and related action plan, which are expected to be endorsed by the FAO Council in June 2022.  The Strategy will...

Between August and October of 2020, a course on “Monitoring the right to adequate food” took place at the capacity building FAO platform “Núcleo de Capacitación en Políticas Públicas”. The course was developed by LEGN together with the Hunger- Free...

LEGN has developed a Methodology for the assessment of national legislation in AMR-relevant areas in the food and agriculture sector. Between 2019 and 2020, LEGN supported 20 countries to analyse their legislation against this Methodology, and has contributed to consequent legal reform...

LEGN led the assessment of the legal frameworks of eight countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), in collaboration with the FAO Subregional office for Southern Africa.  The laws of Comoros, Malawi, Mauritius, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and...

Nicaragua passed a new Law on Plant Protection (Ley 1020 de Protección Fitosanitaria de Nicaragua– DO 26-03-2020) on 11 March 2020.  The Development Law Service (LEGN) provided technical support to the national plant protection organization, in collaboration with the IPPC...