The Office of Partnerships and Advocacy Branch (OCPP) is launching a series of CSO dialogues on key issues of concern to FAO. The dialogues provide a forum for civil society perspectives to be heard and discussed with FAO staff. The first session titled Plant Genetic Resources: perspectives from the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) will be held on Tuesday April 16th. The IPC will present its working group on seeds and agrobiodiversity.  IPC is an international network that brings together several global and regional organizations representing small scale food producers, fisherfolks, agricultural workers and indigenous peoples. It plays an active...

Currently there are more than 370 million self-identified indigenous peoples in some 70 countries around the world. They have made relevant contributions to the world´s heritage thanks to their traditional understanding of ecosystem management. However, indigenous peoples are among the world´s most vulnerable, marginalized and disadvantaged groups in the world. Indigenous peoples have repeatedly asked for a more systematic dialogue with United Nations agencies. In 2010, FAO released the "FAO Policy on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples", with the objective to provide guidance to the agency's various technical units and encourage staff in headquarters and in the regions, as well as staff...

13 mars 2013, Rome - Une nouvelle méthode, plus rapide et plus précise, pour mesurer la faim et l'insécurité alimentaire dans le monde va bientôt être testée sur le terrain par la FAO dans plusieurs pays pilotes. Cette nouvelle approche consiste à recueillir des informations sur l'ampleur et la gravité de la faim ressentie par les personnes exposées à l'insécurité alimentaire au moyen d'une enquête annuelle élaborée avec soin, menée en collaboration avec l'institut de sondages Gallup. Dès ce mois-ci, la FAO s'emploiera à mettre la touche finale à cette méthode - le projet Voices of the Hungry - avec l'aide des...

7 décembre 2012, Rome - Le Conseil de la FAO a approuvé, lors de sa session qui vient de s'achever, la modification de l'objectif premier de l'Organisation: désormais, il ne s'agit plus de réduire la faim mais de l'éradiquer complètement au niveau mondial. «Cet engagement sans équivoque tourne nos regards vers là où ils devraient être, a déclaré M. José Graziano da Silva, Directeur général de la FAO. «Nous ne pouvons accepter rien de moins que l'éradication de la faim, de l'insécurité alimentaire et de la malnutrition». Le Conseil, qui se réunit tous les six mois pour superviser le programme et le...

Geneva, 15 March, 2013 – A top-level United Nations conference has, for the first time, laid the foundations for practical and proactive national drought policies to increase resilience to the world’s most destructive natural hazard, which is being aggravated by climate change. The High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy marked the first globally-coordinated attempt to move towards science-based drought disaster risk reduction and break away from piecemeal and costly crisis-response, which often comes too late to avert death, displacement and destruction. The meeting issued a declaration encouraging governments to develop and implement national drought management policies consistent with their development objectives. It...