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Celebrating food and nutrition on World Food Day
12/10/2020
FAO was established on 16 October 1945. To commemorate this day, year by year, World Food Day reminds us about the pressing issues of hunger, malnutrition, and obesity.
In 2020, the COVID-19 global health crisis has been a time to reflect on things we tr

FAO workshop leads to understanding and designing better agricultural policies in post-Soviet countries
07/10/2020
An FAO workshop will bring a closer understanding of agricultural policy distortions in eight post-Soviet countries. The event will cover a niche by providing a platform to present and discuss preliminary findings of an upcoming study on quantitative agri

FAO: With joint actions, we can recover from the current crisis
07/10/2020
A wide range of actors were brought together by FAO’s virtual regional dialogue on scaling up the response of food and agriculture sectors to the COVID-19 crisis with the ultimate goal of protecting livelihoods and transforming food systems. As a baseline

Coordination remains crucial for African swine fever preparedness in the Balkans
01/10/2020
Despite the limitations in travel and face-to-face meeting due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, FAO continues to bring people together, online, to discuss African swine fever (ASF) – a lethal, viral, transboundary animal disease of domestic pigs and wild

FAO helps address the rural dimension of migration
30/09/2020
Border entry restrictions and lockdown measures, following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, have affected seasonal and circular migration, as well as food security in many countries across Europe and Central Asia. To this end, FAO has organized a webin

Georgia’s agrotourism receives further boost from EBRD and FAO
25/09/2020
Global tourism has all but ground to a halt amid the COVID-19 pandemic, causing heavy economic losses, job cuts, and uncertainty. But this pandemic has also given the world a chance to reimagine tourism – to rebuild an industry that is safer, more equitab

Countries unite in the fight for better food and nutrition
23/09/2020
FAO and its Member Countries ensure the current issues of food security, nutrition, and rural poverty is on the agenda of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly, ongoing this week in New York. For Europe and Central Asia, the forthcoming FAO’s Region

FAO supports smart farming in Uzbekistan and Vietnam benefitting youth
18/09/2020
Food insecurity and poverty are long-lasting issues in the agricultural sector. As the world’s population is growing, more innovative approaches and efforts are needed to solve these issues without any additional pressure on natural resources.
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‘Agriculture has to go on’
16/09/2020
A growing number of livestock helped young Azerbaijani farmer secure a better livelihood for his family.

Georgian vegetable producers prove that kindness is contagious
09/09/2020
A kind gesture by entrepreneur and food hero, Keti, helps other women through the COVID-19 pandemic