We take this opportunity to express our gratitude to the #FoodHeroes, who, despite the circumstances continue to supply food to local communities and the world, following the motto “Grow, nourish, sustain. Together".

FAO Food Price Index hits a three-year high in 2020, following additional gains in December The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) is a measure of the monthly change in international prices of a basket of food commodities.  The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) aver

Dear Readers, Colleagues and Friends, Summing up the outgoing year 2020 is not an easy task as it was very different from the chain of the years that preceded it – happy and not so, brighter or gloomier but still incomparable to what we have witnessed in the last twelve months. 

Close to the curtain fall of the year, Aghasi Harutyunyan, Deputy Director of FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation, was chosen is one of the best 100 young individuals and ten teams from across all streams and offices of FAO worldwide and noted for “remarkable performance under extraordinary circumstances in an exceptional year” within the framework of the annual FAO Employee Recognition Awards. 

Oleg Kobiakov, Director of the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation, and Yevgeny Primakov, Head of Rossotrudnichestvo (Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation) met today in a bid to chart paths to developing project of mutual interest and for joint implementation.

  Population growth remains the key driver of water scarcity. Socio-economic development increases the demand for water as the middle class expands and diets increasingly shift towards more water-intensive products. The growing deficit of water resources

  On December 8, 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Federal Law on the ratification of The Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing.  After the experts establish

  Soil organisms play a crucial role in boosting food production, enhancing nutritious diets, preserving human health, remediating polluted sites and combating climate change, but their contribution remains largely underestimated. Even though biodiversit

A wide range of bread-and-butter issues were discussed during the XXII International Scientific and Practical Conference dedicated to the memory of renowned Russian scientist, innovator and tutor Vasily Gorbatov. The Moscow-based Gorbatov Federal Scientif

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to national borders’ closures, restrictions on the movement of labor, goods and services, and has disrupted the functioning of global food supply chains, access to safe, high-quality food.

  On 24 November 2020, the Moscow-based offices of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) joined efforts and hosted the traditional round

  The joint FAO-WFP report EARLY WARNING ANALYSIS OF ACUTE FOOD INSECURITY HOTSPOTS focuses on acute food insecurity exacerbated by the socio-economic fallout of measures imposed to contain the spread of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).  Please find

COVID-19 threatens to add up to 132 million people to the number of hungry people in the world, the Head of the FAO office in Russia spells out in an interview with Finmarket, the INTERFAX information agency’s subsidiary. The Food and Agriculture Organiz

 Virtual FAO Regional Conference ends with historic attendance 4 November 2020, Tashkent/Rome/Budapest - On the final day of the 32nd Session of the Regional Conference for Europe, FAO Members from Europe and Central Asia reinforced their commitment to transform agri-food systems through innovation, digital technologies and sustainable practices, as well as create inclusive growth in rural areas, taking into account the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food and agriculture. 

Almost one-third of people in Europe and Central Asia live in rural areas, and in many countries, farm structures are dominated by small family farms cultivating less than 5 ha each.

  2 November 2020, Tashkent/Budapest/Rome - The 32nd Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Europe started today as FAO Members from Europe and Central Asia will discuss several challenges facing the region on food and agriculture, particularly how t

Oleg Kobiakov, Director of the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation (FAOLOR), participated today in a virtual round table at the Federation Council dedicated to "75 years of the United Nations: lessons of history and modern challenges and threat

On 16 October, the World Food Day, held this year under the motto “Grow, Nourish, Sustain. Together”, the Director of the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation, Oleg Kobiakov, received numerous warm congratulations from colleagues and partners on

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) celebrated on October 16 its 75th anniversary as a specialized Agency of the United Nations with a global mandate in the field of food, agriculture, forestry, fisheries and rural developmen

An exhibition dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), titled “FAO: A Glorious Journey. 75 Years at the Service of Progress”, opened on the World Food Day (WFD). Grow, Nourish, Sustain. Together is the WFD theme this year.