A World Food Forum Event The bioeconomy team of FAO’s Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB) and Bites of Transfoodmation (BoT) highlighted the incredible potential of wearable food waste during an event at October’s World Food Forum in FAO headquarters in Rome. The event showcased how food waste can be transformed into fashionable...

Call comes during two-day meeting of FAO-led bioeconomy working group Experts from all global regions met in Rome on 19-20 October to take stock of the latest bioeconomy developments and to discuss how FAO could best focus its expanding bioeconomy work. Those gathered spoke about the potential of the sustainable...

The full video of the 19 October event on "Bioeconomy - the catalyst for agrifood systems transformation" held in FAO headquarters is now available for streaming and download on FAO webcast.   Read the FAO press release for the event here. Read the FAO Director-General's opening remarks here. More photos available on FAO flickr.   Photo credit: ©FAO/Riccardo De...

FAO calls for global engagement at High-Level Event of Science and Innovation Forum Rome - The bioeconomy can be a catalyst for addressing the current climate crisis and achieving global agrifood sustainability through a more efficient and responsible management of our natural resources. This was the theme of Thursday's High Level Event, entitled Bioeconomy:...

Director-General reiterates FAO’s commitment to scale-up sustainable bioeconomy in the region and support cross-continent collaboration Rome  - A sustainable bioeconomy holds the key to many challenges we face today including eradication of poverty, inequality, hunger, malnutrition, addressing the impacts of the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation but we need strong...