08/09/2022
The Government of Flanders (Belgium) has just contributed EUR 3 million with the signing of a new agreement with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the Unted Nations (FAO) to bolster the implementation of the new phase (2022-2025) of FAO’s Flexible Voluntary Contribution (FVC), previously known as the Flexible Multi-partner Mechanism (FMM).  In accordance with...

29/06/2022
On Monday, 27 June 2022, the Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism held its first Resource Partner Consultation of the year. Resource Partners represented at the meeting included: Australia, Belgium, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The Consultation began with opening remarks from Mr Alexander Jones, Director of the FAO Resource Mobilization and Private Sector Partnerships Division...

22/06/2022
Photo Credit: ©FAO 16 June 2022 – Climate change and non-resilient agricultural production systems have resulted in an increase in the number of people suffering from food and nutrition insecurity and loss of livelihoods in southern Africa. In 2021, an estimated 47.6 million people in the subregion are food insecure.  About 70 percent of the subregion’s...

15/06/2022
Photo Credit: ©FAO FAO, Government and local stakeholders in Ethiopia are working towards strengthening the linkages between school feeding programmes and local agricultural production. As part of the activities undergoing, during a multi-stakeholder Workshop held by FAO in Addis Ababa in March 2022, the Ethiopian Government...