Each year pollution negatively impacts the lives of millions of people on the planet, and has been at the centre of policies and laws of the European Green Deal. It...

The European Commission and Sweden co-hosted the third Humanitarian Senior Officials Meeting on the crisis in Yemen, bringing together representatives from donors, international and Yemeni non-governmental organizations, and FAO and other...

"Global action is making a major difference in efforts to combat Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing, but more needs to be done as consumer demand and fish production continue to...

Organized by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA), the European Development Days (EDDs) are Europe’s leading forum on development. The overall theme for this year’s edition, which...

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) organized an online public hearing in the context of the EESC Thematic Study Group on Sustainable Food Systems. The session sought to contribute...

The FISH4ACP programme, an initiative of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), brought together members of its steering committee to discuss the status and ongoing activities of...

The European Union (EU) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concluded today the 2021 edition of the EU-FAO Strategic Dialogue, underlining that there is an...

European Union Ministers of Agriculture and Fisheries approved Council Conclusions on the EU’s priorities for the United Nations Food Systems Summit, which will take place in New York in September. They...

FAO Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol briefed EU Member States Delegates of the Council of the European Union Working Party on Development Cooperation (CODEV) on the recently launched FAO-led Food Coalition. Deputy...

The European Commission’s recent study on the status of new genomic techniques under EU law was the subject of a webinar attended by FAO Chief Scientist Ismahane Elouafi, along with...

Colleagues from the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia , the FAO Investment Centre and the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels held two meetings with representatives from the...

While April’s Cocoa Talks ended with an interesting discussion on regulations and due diligence, May has been a rich month for the EU’s virtual roundtables on sustainable cocoa. Building on...

The European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development organized a virtual event on market-based measures for methane emissions reduction. The event presented findings from a recent study...

Assuring that everyone has access to adequate and healthy food produced in an environmentally-friendly way is a global challenge, and responses to that challenge must also be global, agreed participants...

In celebration of World Bee Day, FAO Brussels invited Franc Bogovič, Slovenian Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and of the European Parliamentary Alliance against Hunger and Malnutrition – and...

To launch the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration for youth in Europe, FAO Brussels, together with the Brussels office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP),  and Youth and Environment...

Although severe hunger has not been a major issue in Europe and Central Asia in the past 20 years, the region is in part facing an increase of moderate food...

FAO Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol met with the Deputy Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA), Martin Seychell, to discuss areas of work in human development...

On the occasion of Europe Day 2021, the EU Delegation in Rome organized a Virtual Symposium on Ending Child Labour by 2025, to ‘Act, Inspire and Scale Up’ in Agriculture...

The Committee on Sustainable Development, Environment, Energy Policy, Research, Innovation and Technology of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat) was briefed by programme officer for support to Latin American and...