Ukraine recently signaled its willingness to align national food safety and quality systems with those of the European Union. The decision flows from Ukraine’s geographic proximity to Europe, and the recently signed EU-Ukraine Deep and Comprehensive Free

Moldova now has a national programme for protecting and developing its genetic resources for food and agriculture. It also has the technical capacity and equipment to run the programme, thanks to a two-year FAO project that concludes with a final workshop

When the health, biodiversity, or even long-term survival of forests is at risk, the culprit is not always logging, road-building or urban sprawl. Increasingly, forest invasive species are spreading and damaging trees and forests worldwide. A three-day i

Migration – and the connections between migration and rural livelihoods, agriculture, sustainability, and other issues – are firmly in the spotlight this week. World Food Day – the anniversary of the founding of FAO on 16 October 1945 and one of the most

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