The FAO Information Centre at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations was formally inaugurated on this day.The Centre, which has been in operation since the beginning of the year, is the result of a partnership between the Food and Agricultu

With a signing ceremony and press conference today in Yerevan, FAO launched a new project to make substantial improvements to dairy operations in the Republic of Armenia. Also today, FAO introduced a unique platform for uniting donors working to improve

People everywhere want their food to be safe – free of harmful toxins, viruses, bacteria, veterinary drugs, or excess additives. For the past two years, Moldova has been working with FAO to modernize its national food safety system.

Some 1 250 rural households residing along the contact line in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine are receiving seed potatoes this week from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This is the second round of FAO’s veget

A programme that helps rural women in Kyrgyzstan gain access to new economic opportunities has received significant financial support from the Swedish government. The USD 5 million contribution from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agenc

Southeastern Turkey already has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. This region has now absorbed most of the 3.5 million Syrian refugees who have arrived since the start of the war, and competition for jobs is fierce.Yet employers are lo

To a globe faced with climate challenges, trees could provide one way out – this was the main takeaway of a panel discussion at the Palais des Nations, Geneva today. “Forests provide the solution to many of the sustainability problems that we will face i

Senior staff members of Tajikistan’s Ministry of Agriculture and its Statistics Agency are in Georgia now to meet with representatives of the National Statistics Office and the Ministry of Environment Protection and Agriculture in Georgia. They are on a f

Participants from 21 countries, including Austria, China, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, France, Switzerland, and many more, gathered here today for the KazGrain 2018 conference to discuss trends in the world grain market an

Serbia has a dynamic horticulture industry. But with increased competition from the European Union, Serbian producers need to find ways to get an edge in the market, both at home and abroad. Recently the country’s renowned Oblačinka from Oblačina sour ch