FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation

Новости

31/01/2025
Today, fisheries and especially aquaculture are ones of the most dynamically developing areas of industrial agriculture, and it is highly likely that they will be the determinants of ensuring global food security in the future.
28/01/2025

The Risks of the Current Season round table was held as part of theAgroTech 2025 Expo international exhibition of technologies for the production and processing of potatoes, vegetables and fruits. Igor Shpakov, Senior Consultant at the FAO Moscow Office, delivered his “Global food security trends: challenges and opportunities” presentation there. 

16/01/2025
The One Health approach emphasizes the interconnected health of humans, animals, and ecosystems. By fostering collaboration across sectors like agriculture, healthcare, and environmental management, One Health aims to tackle complex global health challenges, such as emerging diseases, through integrated solutions.
03/01/2025
Rome - The benchmark for world food commodity prices declined in December compared to the previous month, led down by a drop in international sugar quotations, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported Friday.
24/12/2024

Soils are not just one of agricultural inputs. Now, when “soil erosion is occurring, and soil degradation is underway, the quality of products produced in the agricultural sector is suffering, which results in damage to human health,” Lyudmila Orlova, President of the National Movement for Conservation Agriculture non-profit partnership, said in an exclusive interview for the website of the FAO Moscow Office.

23/12/2024

On 19 December, the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation and the Central Scientific Agricultural Library (CSAL), FAO Depository Library in Russia, presented FAO flagship publications 2024 in Russian. 

18/12/2024
During the World Soil Day celebration on 5 December 2024, at the PhosAgro educational center in the Timiryazev Academy, FAO summed up the results of the children’s podcast contest.
16/12/2024

The celebration of World Soil Day took place in the Russian Federation on 5 December 2024. That day, the FAO Moscow Office, Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, PJSC “PhosAgro”, and Lomonosov Moscow State University held a “Soil Data: Measure, Monitor, Manage” conference at the premises of the PhosAgro educational centre at Timiryazev Academy.

13/12/2024

On 27 November 2024, at the constituting meeting of the National Committee of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration at the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation (OPRF), the key directions of this work were determined.

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04/12/2024

On November 29, the 4th annual conference Agrotrends of Russia for heads of industrial agriculture companies, food producers and suppliers of production means was held in the Metropol Hotel in Moscow.

25/11/2024

In 20–21 November, the UN House supported by the Moscow Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) together with Rospotrebnadzor’s Central Research Institute of Epidemiology hosted the 3rd meeting of the Regional Laboratory Network on Antimicrobial Resistance in Food and Agriculture in EECCA Countries (a subregion which includes Eastern Europe, Western and Central Asia).

18/11/2024

On 7 November 2024, with the support of the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation, a subregional seminar entitled “Towards Carbon Farming for Promoting Sustainable Soil Resource Management in the Eurasian Region” was held at the UN House. The event was organized by the Faculty of Soil Science of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

18/11/2024
Five countries in Europe and Central Asia became better prepared to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in their agrifood systems through support of a project implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and funded by the Russian Federation. Armenia, Belarus,...
14/11/2024

On October 23-24, the Volga Grain Export Forum took place in Saratov and was attended by leaders of major companies and agricultural producers operating in the Russian market for grain and its processed products, representatives of large trading associations from Iran and China, employees of Russian and foreign freight forwarding and transport companies, as well as experts from the banking and investment sectors of the agro-industrial complex.

07/11/2024

On 23-24 October 2024, an international scientific and practical conference titled “Current State and Development Prospects of Camel Breeding in Russia and the CIS Countries” was held in Makhachkala (Republic of Dagestan) with the support of the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Russia Office.

06/11/2024

The spread of conflict coupled with climate and economic stressors is pushing millions to the brink, with acute food insecurity set to increase in both magnitude and severity across 22 countries and territories, according to the report “Hunger Hotspots – FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity,” issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).

01/11/2024
In celebration of World Soil Day 2024, FAO, PhosAgro, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy are launching a children’s podcast contest on the theme Caring for Soils: Measure, Manage, Monitor. 
28/10/2024

Louis Pasteur, the first scientist to develop a specific means of preventing rabies in animals that can be transmitted to humans, left behind a worthy legacy, and our goal is to continue his mission. This idea was expressed in the opening remarks of Nikita Lebedev, Deputy Director of the Federal Centre for Animal Health (ARRIAH), at the Breaking Rabies Boundaries international scientific and practical conference.

22/10/2024
Food security and population health are at the heart of Russia’s social policy, enabling it to share experience and best practices with other countries. That was the statement made by Oleg Kobiakov, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Liaison Office with the Russian Federation, on the occasion of the World Food Day (WFD) celebrated on 16 October, during the press conference at TASS news agency.
21/10/2024
On 15 October 2024, the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation held its first event Healthy Food for All: Market Trends Impacting Diets for Youth in Russia at the UN House in Moscow as part of the World Food Forum (WFF).