Heavy vehicles rolled through the scenic heart of Budapest this morning to mark World Food Day. The trucks were loaded with 30 tonnes of food donations from private companies, food that will be distributed in the coming days to needy families. This is th

Uzbekistan has joined the Central Asian Desert Initiative, which promotes conservation and sustainable use of cold winter deserts in Central Asia. The CADI agreement was signed in Warsaw today by Nizomiddin J. Bakirov, Chairman of the State Committee on F

The award-winning short film “HOME” by British director Daniel Mulloy will have its Hungarian premiere next Monday 16 October at 6 pm, at the Urania cinema in Budapest. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion and question-and-answer session m

(This template has been developed by FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia) Introduction FAO has developed two complementary documents/guides to aid veterinary services in their preparedness against lumpy skin disease (LSD), namely: A Lumpy

Katie Amos from the United Kingdom, Olesya Balashova from Russian Federation, and Caroline Ulaga from Slovenia have won the European Forest Week 2017 Art Contest. FAO received 360 entries from 21 countries for the contest, which challenged participants a

The film “Thank you for the rain,” a British-Norwegian coproduction, was awarded the FAO Osiris prize today at the 33rd Agrofilm festival in Slovakia. Film director Julia Dahr tells the heart-warming story of Kisilu, a Kenyan subsistence farmer, as he st

A network of professionals working on agrifood trade in the post-Soviet countries held its fourth annual meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia this week. WTO trade agreements, regional trade agreements, and the promotion of food exports were the main topics of disc

More than 130 individuals left Budapest over the weekend and returned home to some 40 different countries, after two days of intensive discussions on how climate change is affecting transboundary animal diseases. The 40th session of the European Commissi

A four-year, US$ 12 million project to benefit Ukraine’s forest-steppe became operational today, with the signing of an agreement by FAO Regional Programme Leader Raimund Jehle and Deputy Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine on European i

Continued armed conflict and related instability have inflicted enormous losses on the agricultural sector in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Yet, as the rest of the economy declines subsistence farming has taken on new importance. It could even be