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Food security tops agenda of FAO Director-General’s meeting with India’s Prime Minister Modi
10 September 2014
10 September 2014
The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, and FAO Director-General, José...
Bagdad/Rome - FAO is scaling-up critical food and agriculture assistance to highly vulnerable rural households in Iraq thanks to a generous $14.7 million grant from Saudi Arabia. The donation is part of a $500 million grant that the Kingdom of...
Senior FAO staff brief United States Senators
03 September 2014
03 September 2014
Senior staff at FAO yesterday briefed a delegation of five U.S. Senators on FAO’s work on resilience, nutrition, fisheries, climate change, animal health, data, trade and other areas.
FAO Director-General to visit 7 countries and to attend 3 multilateral conferences in the next seven weeks
18 July 2014
18 July 2014
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva will be away from Rome during the next few weeks. During this period he will be involved in a range of activities taking place away from FAO Headquarters.
Initially,...
President of Azerbaijan visits FAO
15 July 2014
15 July 2014
The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, met today with FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva at FAO headquarters in Rome.
With agriculture growing at a 6 percent in the first half of 2014, President Aliyev described...