Over $138 million in urgent funding is needed to assist 1.5 million vulnerable people in rural communities in the Horn of Africa whose fields and pastures have been hard hit...

TheRenew Europepolitical group in the European Parliament organized a virtual meeting on the revised regulation concerning Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF). The gathering, moderated by Member of...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Government of Malawi through the Ministry of Lands, Housing, and Urban Development, in November 2021, facilitated a capacity building...

Echo Capwell and Lola Pochet are two of the youngest members of the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels. Both of them are soon finishing a six-month internship with the liaison office financed by the Flanders Trainee Programme. To mark...

The loss of forests and other valuable ecosystems is having a devastating impact on climate, biodiversity and the socio-economic well-being of communities whose livelihoods depend on them. Agricultural expansion is the most significant driver of global

The European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission (EIFAAC) held its annual meeting of the management committee. Representatives from Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, and Latvia were welcomed by Nabil Gangi, Deputy Regional Representat

 The newly released State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2021 report, an annual flagship publication of FAO, was presented in Brussels at an Infopoint that was hosted by the European Commission Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTP

A technical discussion on Seafood as a Strategic Source of Food in the Context of Climate Change was organized by the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development and the Xunta de Galicia. Manuel Barange, Di

Mette Løyche Wilkie, Director of the FAO Forestry Division, presented delegates of the Council of the European Union Working Party on Forestry with the first findings from the Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) Remote Sensing Survey on Drivers of Defores

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today called on donors and Members to increase funding to fight Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), which the United Nations agency,  together with the...

The webinar titled: “Farm to Fork Strategy – Aligning the food industry with the European Green Deal's climate neutrality objectives and the SDGs” explored ways and means to better align food industries with the...

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) organized the 2021 edition of the EU Agricultural Outlook Conference with the theme ‘Fit for 2030 – resilient EU agrifood systems and rural areas’. During the

As in past years, the three UN Rome-based Agencies (RBAs) participated in the campaign to amplify the voices of victims and survivors and to demonstrate their continuous commitment to action to...

The FAO Liaison Office in Brussels organized a briefing on the Global Network Against Food Crises for a number of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and the European Alliance against Hunger and Malnutrition. The event revealed the...

Afghanistan’s food security situation is rapidly deteriorating and an estimated 22.8 million Afghans are projected to be in acute food insecurity by March 2022.   With rural livelihood systems on the brink of collapse, the economic upheaval, the ra

Public interest in and support for nutrition and healthy diets are growing stronger, offering a ray of hope for a challenge affecting billions of people, QU Dongyu, Director-General of the...

Under the theme “Halt Soil Salinization, Boost Soil Productivity”, FAO marked the 5th of December World Soil Day, highlighting the threat posed by soil salinization to global food security and raising concerns as many countries still lack the...

Steering Committees of the two flagship projects implemented by FAO and partners in ACP countries were held.  FISH4ACP aims to tackle some of the underlying challenges in building sustainable fisheries and aquaculture in twelve countries...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is seeking $1.5 billion in 2022 to save the lives and livelihoods of some of the world's most food-insecure people,...

A public hearing was convened by the European Parliament’s Committees on Development and on International Trade on 30 November 2021, to discuss ways of addressing child labour in developing countries In...