FAO Chief Veterinary Officer Keith Sumption met with Director-General and Chief Veterinary Officer of the Portuguese Directorate-General of Food and Veterinary, Susana Pombo to discuss the organization’s medium and long-term...

March 2021 marked the 10th anniversary of the Syrian war. On March 29-30, the European Union and the United Nations co-chaired the fifth Brussels Conference entitled “Supporting the future of...

FAO Secretary of the Port-States Measures Agreement (PSMA) Matthew Camilleri briefed Ambassadors and delegates of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) Working Group on Fisheries on the...

FAO Brussels is continuing its fruitful interactions with the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union on various topics, including an FAO Brussels Dialogue on Family Farming scheduled...

FAO and the University of Ghent have been working closely the past year to structure a strategic partnership for the upcoming years on important topics of FAO’s mandate such as...

In the run-up to the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) later this year, the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development convened a discussion on the...

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, issued an impassioned plea today for the primacy of science in guiding responses to global...

The Division for Emergencies and Resilience, the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels, and the Kingdom of Belgium co-organized a briefing on the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation (SFERA). As...

FAO Chief Scientist, Ismahane Elouafi met with the Director-General of the EU Joint Research Centre (JRC) Stephen Quest to discuss ways to scale up FAO-JRC joint scientific efforts to transform...

Agriculture absorbs the bulk of the financial losses and damages wrought by disasters which have grown in frequency, intensity, and complexity, says FAO in a new report released today. At no other point...

The 10th meeting of the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste (EU PFLW)  discussed, among other things, ongoing work on the code of conduct for Responsible Business and...

More than 100 stakeholders from academia, governments, policymaking, the private sector, and civil society gathered in February for the first independent Food Systems Summit Dialogue organized in Brussels. The co-organizers...

FAO has been actively engaged in the EU multi-stakeholder dialogue on sustainable cocoa, which delivered concrete recommendations to advance sustainability across the cocoa supply chain through collective action and partnerships...

Secretary-General of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), Georges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti, met with heads of various United Nations Agencies in Brussels, and discussed the new institutional...

FAO and the CGIAR Gender Platform held a virtual event to share insights and lessons learned from specific country-based examples on addressing gender-based causes of food insecurity and malnutrition in...

The FAO Liaison Office in Brussels took part in an online seminar entitled “Construction of sustainable and inclusive territorial food systems”, which highlighted the human right to adequate food as...

The ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) adopted a Resolution calling on the EU and its member states to provide greater support to African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries amid the...

Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, 88 percent of all sustainable forestry projects supported by the FAO-EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme in its Phase III...

As the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict and climate-related crises drive acute levels of hunger higher, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is seeking $1.1 billion in 2021...

FAO Brussels Director a.i. Rodrigo de Lapuerta met with Regional Director of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Regional Office for the EU, Norway and Switzerland, Ola Henrikson to discuss...