On 27 April 2021, the FAO Development Law Service, represented by Manuela Cuvi, Legal Officer for the Latin American and Caribbean region, participated in the second session of this initiative of the Parliamentary Front Against Hunger in Latin America and...

In February and April 2021, the fourth and fifth online regional workshops on the use of A diagnostic tool for implementing an ecosystem approach to fisheries through policy and legal frameworks (EAF Legal Diagnostic Tool) were held, on Zoom, as...

19-21 April 2021: LEGN delivered a regional workshop for selected countries in Asia to review and validate the Aquaculture Legal Assessment and Revision Tool (ALART). This tool sets out a methodology to systematically analyse and assess national legal frameworks for...

12-15 April 2021: the second virtual regional training workshop on the use of the Legislative Guide and the Policy and Legal Diagnostic Tool for Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries was held as part of the collaboration between LEGN, the Fisheries Policy, Economics...

A new LEGN publication describes the key aspects of food fraud and discusses a set of measures that food safety authorities can take in order to curtail this long-standing problematic issue. Indeed, food fraud (i.e. the intentional deceit of consumers...