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EU makes pledges and commitments ahead of UN Food Systems Summit
27/05/2021
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...
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Preventing the health crisis from becoming a food crisis: FAO presents Food Coalition to EU Member States
27/05/2021
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...
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New genomic techniques: Opportunities and challenges for EU agriculture
27/05/2021
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...
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Serbia and North Macedonia: Enhancing partnership for socio-economic recovery and sustainability
26/05/2021
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...
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Cocoa Talks: Boosting sustainability in the cocoa sector
25/05/2021
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...
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Market-based measures for methane emissions reduction: Challenges and opportunities
25/05/2021
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...
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FAO and European parliamentarians commit to agri-food systems transformation
21/05/2021
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...
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World Bee Day: Interview with Slovenian Member of the European Parliament and beekeeper Franc Bogovič
20/05/2021
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...
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FAO, UNEP, and YEE call on youth to join UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
17/05/2021
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...
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New FAO-led food security and nutrition report for Europe and Central Asia elaborates on the costs of a healthy diet
12/05/2021
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...
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Common objectives: EU and FAO discuss joint efforts for human development
11/05/2021
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...
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Ending the vicious circle of child labour in agriculture
10/05/2021
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...
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EuroLat: Parliamentarians crucial in the fight to eradicate poverty and malnutrition
06/05/2021
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...
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EU and FAO call for the transformation of agri-food systems
06/05/2021
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...
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Acute food insecurity soars to five-year high warns Global Report on Food Crises
05/05/2021
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...
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EU and FAO Strategic Dialogue: Strengthening an already thriving collaboration
30/04/2021
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...
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Exploring options to strengthen our Global Science Policy Interface for improved Food Systems Governance
29/04/2021
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...
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Increased flexible funding from Belgium enables FAO to better respond to food crises
23/04/2021
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...
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Keeping soils alive and healthy is key to sustain life on our planet
23/04/2021
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...
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Volcano eruption in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines shocks agriculture sector
23/04/2021
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...