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

The FAO-aided LANDNET opened its three-day annual workshop here today, attracting more than 80 land administration and management professionals. Though informal in nature, LANDNET is a network that continues to grow, filling a niche as a much-needed forum

Although Ukraine is one of the world’s leading grain exporters, it has traditionally exported more bulk agricultural commodities than higher-value processed goods such as flour. The Third Grain Processors Forum: Market & Technologies took place in Od

FAO is about to complete one of the largest seed distribution campaigns in the history of ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine, aimed at helping farmers get ready for the next planting season. The FAO team continues to deliver humanitarian aid in conflict

Animal diseases that spread across national borders are nothing new – but how those diseases behave under a changing climate and more erratic weather is cause for concern. With support from its member nations, FAO is ramping up efforts to keep transbounda

Cooperatives are a relatively recent business model, dating back only to the 1840s, but their short history has been full of twists and turns. Today, in countries once part of the Soviet Union, cooperatives operate under a wide variety of laws, regulation

Secure tenure of land, fisheries and forests is widely acknowledged as being directly related to agricultural productivity, sustainable management of natural resources, and food security. This is the premise of a new project for Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan