Food loss and waste

Regional Conference on Food Loss and Waste in Europe and Central Asia “Enabling the change” (ENG)

The conference had as the main focus to identifying essential elements of enabling environments and tools, including legislative and business innovations, marketing strategies, and practical interventions that support the reduction of food loss and waste and the transition to sustainable food value chains in Europe (including the European Union) and Central Asia.

Circular bioeconomy (including plastics)

Food Systems Talk - Towards a circular economy of food: Views and perspectives for Europe and Central Asia

This episode of the Food Systems Talk organized by the Issue-based Coalition on Sustainable Food Systems and UNECE will feature an interview with Elisabeth Türk, Director of UNECE’s Economic Cooperation and Trade Division and Martin van Ittersum at the Department of Plant Sciences, Plant Production Systems group of Wageningen University, on the different aspects of circular economy.

Science and Innovation

FAO REU Science and Innovation Special Event 2022

Global Launch of the Regional Technical Platform on Green Agriculture, 12 May 2022

In Europe and Central Asia, as well as globally, FAO is aiming to strengthen its role in promoting green agriculture, which includes the proper management of natural resources, biodiversity and ecosystem services with high recycling rates and low external inputs for building sustainable and resilient agroecosystems capable of tackling current and future challenges.

To support this goal, FAO will launch the Regional Technical Platform on Green Agriculture .

The launch will take place on the sidelines of the Thirty-third Session of the Regional Conference for Europe.

Watch the recording!