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Director-General meets with Pakistan’s top social safety net and climate advisers
14/02/2020
Meetings in Islamabad with Sania Nishtar and Malik Amin Aslam review the government’s income support programme for rural women and FAO’s Green Climate Fund-backed project along the Indus River Basin
14 February 2020, ISLAMABAD - FAO Director-General QU D
Director-General meets ECOSOC President Juul
12/02/2020
12 February 2020, New York - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu met with Mona Juul, the president of the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), in New York today for discussions on how to bolster agriculture and food security and nutrition to a
FAO and The Group of 77 to reinforce collaboration
11/02/2020
12 February 2020, New York - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu discussed ways to reinforce collaboration with the The Group of 77 in his meeting today with the Group's Chair Rudolph Michael Ten-Pow.
The Group of 77 is the largest intergovernmental organizat
Cooperation models for transforming the agricultural sector
11/02/2020
12 February 2020, New York - South-South and triangular cooperation can foster smarter agriculture, FAO Director-General tells UN panel
FAO DG hails the importance of transforming food systems for a better world
11/02/2020
12 February, 2020, New York - Much has been done to reduce global hunger, but there’s far more to do and FAO and its sister Rome-based United Nations agencies – IFAD and WFP – will be “exploring new windows of opportunity for bringing about change” at all
FAO Director-General says greater action needed to avert a humanitarian crisis as Desert Locust spreads
11/02/2020
12 February, New York – FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said today greater and faster action was needed to prevent a humanitarian crisis in East Africa as the Desert Locust upsurge was now affecting seven countries and threatened to spread even further.
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FAO and Poland discuss ways to cooperate within the framework of Hand-in-Hand Initiative
10/02/2020
10 February 2020, Rome - FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, today met Jan Krzysztof Ardanowsk, Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland. Both parties agreed on the importance of FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative and discussed ways to strengthen
FAO and Ghana to strengthen their collaboration
10/02/2020
10 February 2020, Rome - FAO Director-General QU Dongyu met today with Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Ghana's Minister for Food and Agriculture.
The parties discussed Ghana’s agricultural sector and the Government’s push for economic growth through agriculture, pa
Director-General and Secretary General of World Meteorological Organization discuss deeper collaboration
10/02/2020
10 February 2020, Rome – FAO Director-General QU Dongyu met with Petteri Taalas, Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization today to explore ways to further collaboration between the two agencies.
The meeting discussed potential WMO suppo
“Team effort” is high road to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
10/02/2020
Director-General QU Dongyu highlights the work of FAO Investment Centre and the Hand in Hand Initiative, in the opening of IFAD’s Governing Council session
11 February 2020, Rome - Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals is a “team effort”, FAO Direc
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