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Are you a researcher, startup, youth innovator, or community-led group with a breakthrough idea or solution in green agriculture and sustainable agrifood systems in a changing climate?

Showcase your work at the Green Science and Innovation Marketplace in the framework of the Global Forum on Green Agriculture and 2nd Regional Science and Innovation Week for Europe and Central Asia will be organized from 9th to 11th September 2025 in Budapest, Hungary. This event will also mark FAO's 80th anniversary, celebrating eight decades of commitment to achieving food security, improving nutrition, and fostering sustainable agriculture worldwide!

In many countries of the Europe and Central Asia region, the majority of smallholder farmers own fragmented land parcels that are difficult to farm efficiently, hampering economic growth and sustainable production.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) this week held a two-day workshop for experts, representatives of universities and other partners from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Türkiye to teach them more about the approach and share best practices. As a platform for presenting achievements, sharing lessons learned and strengthening regional collaboration on the future of IPM, the workshop set the ambitious goal of encouraging long-term commitment to IPM strategies across the region.

Today on World Bee Day, we all have an opportunity – whether we work for governments, organizations or civil society or are concerned private citizens – to promote actions that will protect and enhance pollinators and their habitats, improve their abundance and diversity, and support the sustainable development of beekeeping.

Plants provide essential resources to life on Earth. Agrifood systems and food cultures in Europe and Central Asia are heavily dependent on plants – a dependence which relies on those plants being healthy and thriving. Protecting plant health under the holistic One Health approach can help countries of the region boost economic development, reduce rural poverty, support biodiversity, and improve nutrition. Therefore, this year’s International Day of Plant Health, celebrated globally on 12 May, focuses on plants as a critical pillar within One Health.

FAO,together with the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change and with funding from the European Union, is implementing the project “Technical Assistance for Sound Management of Hazardous Chemicals in Uzbekistan.” 

Research shows the potential of a sustainable and circular bioeconomy to transform agrifood systems in the region and throughout the world

The Cooperation Review Meeting between FAO REU and CJN, held in Budapest on 20 March 2025, strengthened the collaboration and focused particularly on how science-based innovations can enhance agricultural productivity and sustainability. 

On 28 February 2025, Kyrgyzstan officially joined the Green Agriculture Initiative, an initiative launched in 2022 by the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU), as a  pilot country, marking a significant milestone in its transition to a green economy.

Unfinished biodiversity negotiations are back on the table.  After a groundbreaking session in Cali, Colombia, delegations are reconvening in Rome to tackle unfinished business that will be critical for biodiversity action – with transforming agrifood systems emerging as a central element for global success.