On 29 March 2022, a meeting was held at the FAO Moscow Office between Oleg Kobiakov, the Office Director, and Alexander Noviukhov, Member of the Federation Council from the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area (KhMAA), First Vice-President of the Russian Associat

On 22 March, Eduard Porvatov, expert of the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation, made an intervention at a round table at the UN Information Centre in Moscow. The online event took place on the occasion of the celebration of World Water Day 202

18 March 2022 – Moscow. On the occasion of the International Day of Forests (IDF), the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation and the Federal Agency for Forestry (Rosleskhoz) supported by the Russian Office of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) a

by Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

  The FAO Food Price Index rose to record high in February. Vegetable oils and dairy products lead the increase.  The FAO Food Price Index* (FFPI) averaged 140.7 points in February 2022, up 5.3 points (3.9 percent) from January and as much as 24.1 point

The FAO’s project entitled “Promoting Sustainable Soil Management in the Framework of the Global Soil Partnership” has received financial assistance from the Government of the Russian Federation.

On the occasion of the World Wildlife Day celebrated on 3 March, the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation, the Representative Office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Russia and the Federal Agency for Forestry (Rosleskhoz) he

On 22 February, a methodological seminar on ways of solving the global food issues was held at the discussion platform of Nikonov All-Russian Institute of Agrarian Problems and Informatics – a branch of the All-Russian Research Institute of Agricultural E

 11 February is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.   The increment of scientific knowledge and gender equality are essential for progress, including the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In order to provide a

The FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation in the framework of the XI International Model UN “DAIMMUN-22” held a panel at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to discuss the outcomes of the UN Food Systems Summit (FSS)

On 25 January, under the FAO SAVE FOOD initiative the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation and Messe Dusseldorf Moscow held the 5th conference at the annual trade fair in Russia “Upakovka-22”, dedicated to the development trends of the packaging

On December 21, the FAO Office in Moscow and the Central Scientific Agricultural Library presented two flagship publications (in Russian): "The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2021: making agrifood systems more resilient to shocks and stresses" and "

On 15 December, the Director of the FAO Office in Moscow Oleg Kobiakov participated in the expert session "ESG in agro: green or carbon?" within the framework of the VIII Congress titled "Innovative practice: science plus business". Lomonosov Moscow State

On 15 December 2021, the #GenerationRestoration ecological festival dedicated to the beginning of the Decade for Ecosystem Restoration, announced by the UN this year, was held at the Blagosfera center. The festival was organized by RusKlimatFond togethe

Have you ever heard about… the 16 days of activism against Gender-Based Violence? Today, on the Human Rights Day, is the end of the 16-day campaign, which lasted form the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November thro

  On 7 December, on the invitation by Skolkovo colleagues, Dr David Nabarro, Senior Advisor to the United Nations Food Systems Summit Dialogues, and WHO’s Special Envoy on Covid-19, addressed online the Forum “Nobel Vision. Open Innovations 2.0” held on

On 3 December, the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation, Lomonosov Moscow State University, the World Bank, and the Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, hosted the Sixth Scientific and Practical Conference

  On the eve of the World Soil Day, celebrated annually on 5 December, the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation took an exclusive interview with Dr Pavel V. Krasilnikov, a leading Russian soil scientist, Doctor of Biological Sciences, correspon

  On 30 November – 1 December, with the assistance of the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation, MSD Animal Health hosted the "Livestock of the future" educational programme, in partnership with the "Agroinvestor" periodical and the Healthcare D

On 26 November, Oleg Kobiakov, Director of the FAO Moscow Office, delivered a presentation titled “FAO World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020” (WCA 2020) at the roundtable discussion spearheaded by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat