FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

23/10

2025

24/10

2025

İstanbul (Türkiye), 23/10/2025 - 24/10/2025

Building on past Conferences of the Parties (COPs) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including the Loss and Damage Fund, Santiago Network, and UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, and looking ahead to COP30 in Brazil, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is organizing a Regional Climate Workshop on Enhancin...

16/10

2025

Budapest (Hungary), 16/10/2025

More than 20 partner companies will join the twentieth food donation convoy marking World Food Day 2025. Matching this year’s theme ‘Hand in hand for better foods and a better future’, the heavy vehicles will roll through Budapest carrying food donations for needy families. World Food Day 2025 also marks the anniversary of the funding of FAO, celebrating 80 years of collective actions for eradi...

10/10

2025

24/10

2025

Istanbul (Türkiye), 10/10/2025 - 24/10/2025

Created in 1947, the European Forestry Commission (EFC) is one of six Regional Forestry Commissions established by FAO to provide a policy and technical forum for countries to discuss and address forest issues on a regional basis. It meets every two years.

6/10

2025

Ankara (Türkiye), 06/10/2025

Organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), a launch event and inception workshop will be held for the project “Enhancing the capacity of results-based monitoring of internationally-financed projects to improve policymaking in food and agriculture sector” (Monitoring Project) on 6 October 2025 in Ankara, Türkiye. 

2/10

2025

3/10

2025

Budapest (Hungary), 02/10/2025 - 03/10/2025

The Forty-fourth Session of the European Commission on Agriculture (ECA) will be held in Budapest, Hungary, from 2 to 3 October 2025, dedicated to the topic of balancing productivity and sustainability in driving agrifood systems transformation. Agrifood systems in Europe and Central Asia are under increasing pressure from environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, climate change and geopoli...

29/9

2025

Virtual Event, 29/09/2025

To mark the 2025 International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW), the FAO Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium and the European Commission Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG Sante) are co-hosting a webinar focused on the power of stakeholder engagement in reducing food waste.

26/9

2025

Virtual Event, 26/09/2025

FAO invites you to the virtual launch of the newly published Land Tenure Journal – Special issue on land consolidation that will take place on 26 September. This special issue, recently published by FAO, features 12 articles about land consolidation.

25/9

2025

Virtual Event, 25/09/2025

Recognizing the need to improve value chain development and market access for NWFPs, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has partnered with the Chamber of Forest Engineers of Türkiye to develop and implement the Regional Guidelines – Value Chain Development and Market Access for Non-Wood Forest Products in Southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus to supp...

22/9

2025

23/9

2025

Metropolitan City of Rome Capital (Italy), 22/09/2025 - 23/09/2025

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is organizing the Interregional Dialogue on Family Farming for Europe and Central Asia under the United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 (UNDFF) from 22 to 23 September 2025, at the FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy. The two-day event will take place together with the

9/9

2025

11/9

2025

Hybrid Event, 09/09/2025 - 11/09/2025

In 2021, the FAO Director-General and the leadership at FAO headquarters in Rome tasked all FAO Regional Offices to lead the way in the design and development of five regional technical platforms to accelerate innovation through the sharing of information and experiences. The FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, in line with its accumulated experiences and comparative advantage in s...

2/9

2025

4/9

2025

Ankara (Türkiye), 02/09/2025 - 04/09/2025

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been working in collaboration with the Global Environment Facility (GEF) since 2006, and with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) since 2016, towards the transformation of agrifood systems to achieve climate-resilient food systems, while addressing the complex environmental challenges inherent in this process. Both organizations pla...

15/8

2025

12/10

2025

15/08/2025 - 12/10/2025

The FAO Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership has announced a new series of regional trainings on ecosystem services assessment in livestock agroecosystems. The activities will take place from September to November 2025.

12/8

2025

12/08/2025

To mark this year’s International Youth Day, celebrated annually on 12 August, youth leaders from across Europe and Central Asia will come together for an engaging regional webinar titled “Stronger Together – Sharing Good Practices Across European Youth Chapters”. 

17/7

2025

Ashgabat (Turkmenistan), 17/07/2025

Commercial aquaculture in Turkmenistan dates backs to the early 1970s when pond fish culture was introduced to the country, however, production figures indicate that production decreased significantly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The reestablishment of freshwater aquaculture, especially smallholder farming models, has the potential to diversify farmer livelihoods, contribu...

16/7

2025

Ashgabat (Turkmenistan), 16/07/2025

Aquaculture is a diverse production sector that encompasses a wide range of culture species, environments, production systems and practices. The complex and diverse nature of the sector leads to a broad range of hazards and related risks that have the potential to impact production, food security, profitability, livelihoods and biodiversity. In this respect, disease represents one of the most s...

14/7

2025

18/7

2025

(Türkiye), Hybrid Event, 14/07/2025 - 18/07/2025

Organized by the FAO–Türkiye Forestry Partnership Programme, this regional training aims to strengthen technical skills in forest data collection and spatial analysis. The training is implemented under the project “Improving Biodiversity and Sustainable Forestry (GCP/SEC/025/TUR)” in collaboration with the CBIT-Forest II Project. The training will introduce participants to Geographic Informatio...

11/7

2025

Virtual Event, 11/07/2025

This virtual training aims to build foundational capacities in participatory and gender-sensitive approaches to forest and protected area management, with a focus on community-based natural resource management. Organized under the project ‘Improving Biodiversity and Sustainable Forestry (GCP/SEC/025/TUR)’, implemented within the framework of the FAO–Türkiye Forestry Partnership Programme the...

26/6

2025

Dushanbe (Tajikistan), 26/06/2025

The Central Asian and Caucasus Regional Fisheries and Aquaculture Commission (CACFish) is a regional fisheries management body of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) that promotes the sustainable development of fisheries and aquaculture in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Over the past few years, and as a component of its biennial work programmes, the Commiss...

25/6

2025

26/6

2025

Budapest (Hungary), 25/06/2025 - 26/06/2025

Over the past year, incursions of ruminant transboundary animal diseases have increased sharply in South-East and Central Europe, raising great concern among both affected and at-risk countries. Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), a highly contagious viral disease affecting cloven-hoofed animals, was reported this year in Germany, followed by a second virus introduction to Hungary and Slovakia. Peste...

24/6

2025

Belgrade (Serbia), Hybrid Event, 24/06/2025

The “Enhancing the resilience of Serbian forests to ensure energy security of the most vulnerable while contributing to their livelihoods and carbon sequestration (FOREST Invest)” project, launched on 20 February through an agreement between FAO, the Serbian Government, and public enterprises “Srbijašume” and “Vojvodinašume,” aims to enhance the resilience of Serbia’s forests amid climate ch...