On 21 September, Oleg Kobiakov, Director of the FAO Moscow Office, representing the Organization at the V International Fishery Forum in St. Petersburg, spoke at its opening and at the plenary session “Smart Fishing: Research, Catching, Processing”. 

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) invites young readers (5 – 19 ages) to start the new school year by getting ready to discuss the challenges, to which the world’s youth will try to offer solutions at World Food Forum in Rome s

FAO is taking part in the 7th Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, the capital of the Russian Far East. On 6 September, Oleg Kobiakov, Director of FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation, addressed as a speaker the panel discussion “BRICS+ Women

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has granted the status of a Reference Centre for Zoonotic Coronaviruses to the Federal Centre for Animal Health (ARRIAH, the city of Vladimir, Russia), subordinated to Rosselkhoznadzor. This fa

What do the Nationally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems and the Vyatsky cucumber have in common? As it has turned out, they have many points of contact, which became clear during the conference “Prospects for using heritage for developing rural tou

In connection with a working visit on 17-18 August to the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia for scheduled expert consultations between FAO and the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), Armen Harutyunyan, Director of the EEC Agro-Industrial Policy Department, gave an exclusive interview to the FAOLOR website. 

“We are very pleased to have the opportunity to visit the hospitable Yaroslavl land and this wonderful object of absolutely living heritage, to meet the enthusiasts who have created this historical and cultural oasis, to get acquainted with representative

Indigenous Peoples are the keepers of a huge part of the world’s cultural heritage, of traditional knowledge and ability to live in harmony with nature. Today, more than 476 million people around the world identify themselves as Indigenous Peoples, they i

   On July 12, Oleg Kobiakov, Director of the Moscow FAO Liaison office with the Russian Federation, took part in a round table discussion with Africa organized by “Rossiya Segodnya” media group in the format of a video conference on the topic of “Global

In June 2022, the FAO Food Price Index* (FFPI) averaged 154.2 points, down 3.7 points (2.3 percent) from May, marking the third consecutive monthly decline, though still 29.0 points (23.1 percent) above its value a year ago. The drop in June reflected de

  On 7 July, the TASS press centre held the Russian premiere of the UN flagship report entitled “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022” (SOFI-2022), which had been presented the day before at the UN Headquarters in New York as part o

  On 1 July 2022, the FAO Moscow Office team, on invitation of the “National Network of the Global Compact” Association, took part in the round table discussion of new ways and forms of cooperation with the Russian business community against the backgrou

Topical issues of the development of cooperative legislation were discussed by experts at an international conference in the field of legal regulation of the activities of cooperatives in Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). 

  On 21 June 2022, the FAO Moscow Office together with the National Association of Rural and Ecotourism and the Department of Social-Economic Geography of Foreign Countries at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), and with the support of the FAO G

  “The topic of food security is as old as the world is. Humanity has faced this problem all over its existence, but it has always found solutions to overcome hunger. The last of these crucial constructive decisions was the Green Revolution that occurred

“There is direct evidence of a food crisis, but it did not originate yesterday,” Oleg Kobiakov, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Liaison Office with the Russian Federation, said on June 9 during a discussion at

  6 June 2022, Moscow, – “First of all, I would like to join in congratulating the colleagues from our sister organization, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), on the fiftieth anniversary, as well as all Russians working in the environmental

  “On behalf of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and its Deputy Director General Vladimir Rakhmanin, I convey to you my warmest congratulations on the 5th anniversary of the Eurasian Peoples’ Assembly and my wishes for su

    “Do you know why we should be thankful to bees, to our pollinators? The first reason is because they produce honey, which improves the quality of our nutrition, including food taste values. Moreover, we can admire these creatures’ unique hard work.

  On 16 May, Oleg Kobiakov, Director of the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation, delivered a presentation entitled “Global Food Security – Realities and Trends” at the Fourth Moscow Academic Economic Forum.  “What does the world hunger map lo