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FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

In their pursuit to ensure an equitable and sustainable future, governments can rely on FAO expertise in food and agriculture. Responding to the needs of Europe and Central Asia, the Organization is offering support in many specific areas. Find out more

Highlights
Regional Priority Programmes
The three Regional Priority Programmes provide an integrated, programmatic approach to addressing the region’s priority issues, and guide the implementation of country programmes. Most of FAO’s work in the region contributes to one or more of these priority programmes, with food and nutrition security as a cross-cutting area of work.
Empowering smallholders, family farms and youth
Regional Priority Programme
Empowering smallholders, family farms and youth through inclusive rural transformation, digitalization and innovation
Transforming food systems and facilitating market access and integration
Regional Priority Programme
Transforming food systems and facilitating market access and integration
Managing natural resources sustainably and preserving biodiversity in a changing climate
Regional Priority Programme
Managing natural resources sustainably and preserving biodiversity in a changing climate
Recent and upcoming events

4/12

2025

Celebration of World Soil Day 2025 in the Russian Federation
Moscow (Russia), Hybrid Event, 04/12/2025

FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, PhosAgro, the V.V. Dokuchaev Society of Soil Science together with other partner organizations, are celebrating World Soil Day 2025 at the Soil Science Faculty of Moscow State University in a hybrid format.


3/12

2025

4/12

2025

Third regional dialogue on biodiversity mainstreaming across agricultural sectors in Europe and Central Asia
Yerevan (Armenia), Hybrid Event, 03/12/2025 - 04/12/2025

Ongoing crises are among the biggest short- and long-term risks the world is expected to face in the coming decade. Sustainable agrifood systems offer a vital pathway to address biodiversity loss while ensuring food security, nutrition and climate resilience, building on the outcomes of the 2021 First Regional Dialogue to foster a complex ecosystem approach, integrate biodiversity for food a...

Featured publications
The State of Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries 2025
2025

This 2025 edition of the GFCM flagship publication The State of Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date review of fisheries and aquaculture status and trends in the Mediterranean and Black Sea region. The sixth installment of this report is the most ambitious to date and comes as a result of an unprecedented collaborative effort across the region.

Emergency, recovery and development support for Ukraine’s agrifood systems
2025

The publication “Ukraine and FAO” provides an overview of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) activities and achievements in Ukraine since the escalation of the war in 2022. It outlines how FAO, in partnership with the Government of Ukraine and international donors, supports farmers, rural households and institutions to safeguard food security, sustain production and rebuild livelihoods.

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