To achieve the crucial goals of the Agenda for Sustainable Development, more women need to be engaged in scientific and practical research.

A national of the Republic of Moldova, Viorel Gutu was appointed to the post of FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia in February 2024. Prior to that he served as FAO Subregional Coordinator for Central Asia and Representative for Türkiye and Uzbekistan.

FAO is actively involved in food and nutrition education, with special emphasis on the school system: students, their families, teachers, school administrators, local farmers, caterers, food vendors and government officials.

An introduction to the heroes of deserts and highlands   We have been roaming the Earth since long before you arrived, but maybe you haven’t noticed.

Benchmark measure of world food commodity prices ends 2023 about 10 percent below its year-earlier level Rome- The benchmark for world food commodity prices declined in December compared to the previous month, with the sharpest drop in international sugar quotations, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported Friday.

On 21 December, the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation together with the Central Scientific Agricultural Library (CSAL) – FAO’s depository library in Russia – presented the latest flagship publications of FAO in the Russian language. 

The soil is the main production environment for the growth of food crops, it provides them with the necessary nutrients. However, such threats as desertification, erosion and land misuse are causing increasing damage to soil health.

For the 65th anniversary of the Federal Centre for Animal Health (ARRIAH) foundation A Veterinary Medicine in Food Security and Biological Safety anniversary scientific and practical conference dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Federal Centre for Animal Health (ARRIAH) foundation took place at the Veles club-hotel, 300 km east of Moscow, in the Vladimir Region, over two days (7–8 December).

What challenges do the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) countries face in terms of ensuring food security? How is the partnership between the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) and FAO developing? Armen Harutyunyan, Director of the Agricultural Policy Department of EEC, answered these and other questions from Vladimir Mikheev, Press Secretary of the FAO Moscow Office, at the 16th Verona Eurasian Economic Forum held in Samarkand (Uzbekistan) in November.

On 28 November 2023, the UN House in Moscow held an extended meeting of the UN Theme Group on Gender in the Russian Federation dedicated to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the UN Secretary-General campaign called 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, and the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

This year, The World AMR Awareness Week wasopened in Russia on 20 November with a seminar at the Marriott Hotel, organized by the offices of the World Health Organization, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

On the eve of the World AMR Awareness Week, on 15 November, the hospitable UN House in Moscow held a final workshop of the ''Reducing the advance of antimicrobial resistance in food and agriculture'' FAO project.

The UN House in Moscow warmly welcomed the members of the Regional Laboratory Network on Antimicrobial Resistance in food and agriculture in Eastern Europe, Transcaucasia and Central Asia (EETCA) countries who had their 2nd Annual Meeting there.

Currently, aquaculture is one of the fastest growing sectors of the agricultural sector globally, and if we try to look beyond the horizon, we can already say with a high degree of certainty that this is the sector that will shape global food security soon.

On 2–3 November, FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation took part in the Public-Private Partnership for the Sustainable Development of Indigenous Peoples International Forum organized by the Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs (FADN), the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON), and PJSC “MMC “Norilsk Nickel”.

International quotations for rice, wheat, palm oil and pig meat decline  Rome – The benchmark for world food commodity prices declined moderately in October, down by 0.5 percent from September with the index for dairy products the only one to rise, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported Friday.

On 18 October, the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation jointly with the UN Information Centre in Moscow and the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) named after Patrice Lumumba held a scientific and practical conference “Water is life, water is food” dedicated to World Food Day within the framework of the World Food Forum – 2023.

On 16 October, on the occasion of the World Food Day (WFD) celebrated annually on the date of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) foundation in 1945, a press centre of the TASS News Agency hosted a conference on this year's t

On 16 October, during World Food Day, a solemn ceremony was held to extend the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between FAO and the Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy (RSAU-MTAA). “Food, our daily bread, is the fo

Potatoes, cabbage, courgettes and other vegetables can grow even in a harsh climate. And Tamara Fiodorova knows how to get good yields on her land in Rassoloda, a village in the Sakha Republic, a part of Russia known as Yakutia. The trick, she says, is to grow locally adapted crops developed by local breeders.