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Rome/Baltimore/Geneva - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, and The Johns Hopkins Alliance for a Healthier World today launched a new easy-to-navigate online tool designed to help decision makers understand their food systems, identify their levers of change, and decide which ones to pull.

Conflict is currently the main driver of food crises around the world: according to the latest release of The Global Report on Food Crises, 77 million people who suffer from acute food insecurity live in places affected by conflict or insecurity. In addition, over 80 percent of humanitarian and development work is carried out in conflict-affected contexts; with this in mind, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) works actively to mainstream...

On May 4 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft) with the main objective of developing a range of activities to strengthen and mobilize an educational and knowledge base for integrated water resources management. The collaboration between the two organizations is not new, as in 2014 a previous partnership agreement was signed to formalize the relationship. In this regard, FAO’s technical officer Jippe Hoogeveen, highlighted...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is launching today the first of a “Series of Global Webinars: Towards Resilient Family Farming - Solutions from producer organizations”.The virtual meeting is an opportunity to learn about the main impacts of COVID-19 on regional producer organizations and family farms, and to exchange good practices, and solutions to the health crisis caused by COVID-19. Regional organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean are sharing experiences, particularly on financing and savings mechanisms that have...

في 20 مايو/أَيَّار 2020، زادت منظمة الأغذية والزراعة للأمم المتحدة (الفاو) من تعاونها مع دول مجلس التعاون الخليجي بشكل كبير من خلال التوقيع عن بعد على اتفاقيتي شراكة رائدتينمع وزارة الدولة للأمن الغذائي في الإمارات وتعزيز نظام الأمن الغذائي في الإمارات العربية المتحدة. المشروعات، "تحويل قطاع الأغذية والزراعة لتحقيق أهداف التنمية المستدامة لتعزيز الأمن الغذائي والتغذية"، (بميزانية 3،597،111 دولار أمريكي) و "التقييم والتحليل الاستراتيجي لنظام مراقبة الأغذية في أبوظبي" (بميزانية من 217،771 دولارًا أمريكيًا)، تهدف إلى توفير بيئة مواتية للنهوض بأهداف التنمية المستدامة في الإمارات العربية المتحدة من خلال تعزيز الابتكار والاستدامة وتنمية القدرات، بالإضافة إلى تقييم نظام أبوظبي للرقابة...