High-level roundtables held on how to tackle water shortages and scarcity, as well as floods, during weeklong meeting of FAO’s highest governing body.

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, re-elected on Sunday for a second term at the head of the Organization, delivered today his opening statement at the 43rd Session of FAO Conference (1-7 July), in which he stressed that it is tim...

Rome - QU Dongyu was today re-elected to a second term as Director...

Every month, our Liaison Office coordinates visits by FAO experts from around the world to Brussels and supports their interactions and contributions at events held by our partners. The June missions included:

A visit by Coordinator of the

This is the Interview of the Month of June with Corinna Hawkes, FAO Director of the Food Systems and Food Safety Division

Congratulations on your new assignment Corinna! New in this position but definitely not new to food and nutrition. Before asking you how do you plan to support th...

The 43rd session of the FAO Conference (July 1-7) begins this Saturday at the Organization’s headquarters in ...

Upon invitation by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), FAO’s Land and Water Division Director LI Lifeng participated at the eighth Meeting of the EU-Africa Economic and Social Stakeholders' Network.

During his intervention Li cautioned that the linkages between water, agri...

FAO has joined the efforts of the upcoming  SDG Forum Belgium - the first multi-stakeholder forum on the SDGs in the Benelux. The Forum includes 18  organizations from the sustainable development sector, including the Belgian Federal Institute for Sustainable Development and strives ...

Rome - Ministers, Vice-Ministers and other high-level representati...

 

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) Permanent Group on Sustainable Food Systems organized a session on the EU's contribution to the UN Food Systems Stocktaking Moment. 
The keynote speakers were Stefanos Fotiou, FAO Director of the Office of Sustainable Development Goals and...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has welcomed the approval by UN member states of a landmark legally binding agreement, under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in international waters, ...

The Second Global Parliamentary Summit against Hunger and Malnutrition closed on Friday in Chile with a new Global Parliamentary Pact to work towards the transformation of agrifood systems and to promote the right to adequate food for all.

“This event has demonstrated that the first meetin...

Agrifood systems must be part of the solution to the loss of biodiversity and the climate crisis facing our planet, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today told a meeting of G20 Agriculture Ministers.

"Despite progress, to...

More than 200 parliamentarians (including six Members of the European Parliament), 15 presidents and vice-presidents of national and regional parliaments and parliamentary bodies from 64 countries participated at the Second Global Parliamentary Summit against Hunger and Malnutrition that took ...

FAO’s Food Systems and Food Safety Division Director Corinna Hawkes visited Brussels for a round of meetings and to participate at a side-event titled “Urban food policies for a sustainable and just future” at the Br...

12 June is the World Day against Child Labor, and this year’s official FAO commemoration took place in Brussels.

With the support of ILO, FAO organized an FAO Brussels Briefing on the occasion with a number of partners and actors from governments, civil society and academia. The event t...

During his mission to Brussels, FAO Chief Economist Máximo Torero attended the Council Working Party on Development and International Partnerships (CODEV-PI) to present the global food security situation in a Session that also saw presentations by IFAD, the SUN Movement and WFP.

In his p...

Jhon Puse Arroyo has spent his life as a traditional red crab harvester in the Tumbes National Mangrove Sanctuary, which stretches for close to 3 000 hectares along the Peruvian coast near the border with Ecuador.

“I learned this profession from my father, who gained his livelihood in th...

Agrifood systems are a major employer of both women and men. Globally, 36 percent of working women are employed in agrifood systems, along with 38 percent of working men, reveals The Status of Women in Agrifood Systems report