Camembert, burrata, gruyere... they are not cheeses one associates with Siberia, but Nikita Rossov makes them all. In all, the young farmer produces more than 15 types of cheese in his village of Khomutovo, in Russia’s Irkutsk region, some 5000 km east

On 10-12 October, the International Forum “Public-Private Partnership in the Field of Sustainable Development of Indigenous Peoples” was held in Murmansk, it was attended by a representative delegation of the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation that included Director Oleg Kobiakov, his Deputy Aghasi Harutyunyan and Consultants Igor Shpakov and Varvara Parilova.

  On the last day of the V Global Fishery Forum, FAO, together with the Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), held the Global Fishery Forum Roundtable “Small-scale Fisheries: Challenges and Successes”.   What are the

On the second day of the Fishery Forum (V GLOBAL FISHERY FORUM & SEAFOOD EXPO RUSSIA) held in St. Petersburg, Oleg Kobiakov, Director of the FAO Moscow Office, representing FAO Director-General Dr Qu Dongyu, participated in as many as three sections.&

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

Актуальные вопросы развития кооперативного законодательства обсудили эксперты на международной конференции в области правового регулирования деятельности кооперативов в России и в странах Содружества Независимых Государств (СНГ).

  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