FAO in Europe and Central Asia 2024
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This publication summarizes very succintly the key achievements and collaboration for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the Europe and Central Asia region, despite the backdrop of ongoing challenges such as the war in Ukraine, climate change and political instability. The first section approaches programme work through the lens of the four betters. The work of FAO for its Regional Priority Programme on Empowering smallholders, family farms and youth thorugh inclusive rural transformation, digitalization and innovation" such as the Green Agriculture Technical Platform, digital agriculture and better access to resources and are described under the better production heading, Also under better production is FAO's work on One Health and other initiatives related to the "Regional Priority Programme: transforming food systems and facilitating market access and integration." The section on better nutrition includes food safety work, the achievements of the Issue-based Coalition on Sustainable Food Systems, Codex, plant health and markets and trade. The better environment part of the section focuses on climate change mitigation and the adaption of agrifood systems to be more sustainable and resilient. Gender equity, rural transformation and resilient agrifood systems are described under the rubric of better life.The second section of the report gives a very brief synopsis of important completed and ongoing project work in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan, Türkiye, Turkmenistan and Ukraine. The narrative covers the One country One Priority Product programme, the Digital Villages initiative and smart villages, women bean growers, a project about women driving resilience, the national animal identification and tracing project that has expanded within the region, locust control, land consolidation, the development of a digital land cadastre system, women's cooperatives and women's empowerment, Farmer Field Schools, forest restoration and biodiversity conservation non-wood forest products value chain development and more.