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...

The European Union (EU) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have agreed to increase joint efforts to transform agri-food systems, in order to make them...

The number of people facing acute food insecurity and needing urgent life and livelihood-saving assistance has hit a five-year high in 2020 in countries beset by food crises, an annual report launched...

Ever since the European Union joined FAO as a Member Organization in 1991, the EU-FAO partnership has been driven by a shared vision of a better future for all in...

The European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) organized an interactive stakeholder dialogue to explore the needs and options to strengthen the global Science Policy Interface (SPI) as...

At a time of unprecedented humanitarian needs, the Government of Belgium has increased its contribution to FAO’s Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA) to grant FAO the necessary flexibility to determine how...

The Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) drew to a close with a call to recognize and enhance the...

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Rural Transformation, Industry & Labour of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Nerissa Gittens, provided an update on the impact of the...