FAO Director-General QU Dongyu meets FAO Goodwill Ambassador and astronaut Thomas Pesquet

Director-General QU Dongyu received the FAO Goodwill Ambassador and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet at FAO headquarters in Rome. At the beginning of the meeting, Pesquet presented the Director-General with the FAO flag that he had taken to the International Space Station in his second six-month mission, which ended in November 2021. Pesquet also gave the Director-General some seeds (tomatoes, peas and corns) that had also been taken to space and brought back to Earth. The seeds will be planted in FAO’s gardens, said Qu.