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23 Oct 2019
Partnership will contribute to making supply chains for healthy fresh produce efficient and equitable
Rome - FAO and the World Union of Wholesale Markets (WUWM) have agreed to renew and strengthen their partnership with an eye to globally reducing food loss and waste and assure supplies of healthy and fresh food in an increasingly urbanized world.
The WUWM is a non-profit association representing more than 160 wholesale...![Agricultores Familiares alzan la voz para tener cadenas de valor más incluyentes](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_medium_Agri_Familiares_21_10.jpg)
21 Oct 2019
Durante la conmemoración del Día Mundial de la Alimentación, 80 participantes en intercambio de conocimientos se pronuncian por impulsar el consumo y dar valor agregado a productos de la pequeña agricultura.
Ciudad de México. Treinta organizaciones de productores forestales y agrícolas de Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Filipinas, Ghana, Guatemala, Kenia, México, Nicaragua y Togo, quienes de manera colectiva representan alrededor de 725 mil productores, se reunieron en Cuetzalan, Puebla, México, del 8 al 16 de octubre en el Intercambio La Canasta de Productos: Hacia cadenas de valor inclusivas de sistemas agroforestales y ancestrales.![FAO and the Netherland's FMO partner to improve agriculture financing in developing countries](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_48918195217_1457c0eb2b_k.jpg)
18 Oct 2019
Focus includes improving agri-business management skills, sustainable agro-ecological and processing practices and food loss-reduction techniques
Rome - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and FMO, the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank today launched a formal partnership which aims to increase investments in favor of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and small-scale producers operating within the agribusiness sector in developing countries.
According to the Memorandum of Understanding, over the...![FAO and Danone team up to foster sustainable diets and food systems](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_Danone.jpg)
17 Oct 2019
Partnership to scale up sustainable food and agricultural practices and provide people with access to more diverse and healthier foods
Rome -The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Danone have agreed to work together to improve global nutrition and food safety knowledge, and promote responsible agricultural value chains for more sustainable food systems.
The UN agency and the global food and beverage company have a shared understanding of the need to...16 Oct 2019
Iniciado en el 2016, el programa de alimentación escolar extendió la cobertura en el 2019 para atender a 254.900 niños y niñas en las escuelas.
Brasília, 18 de octubre del 2019 – La experiencia en marcha por la Mancomunidad de Municipios del Centro de la Paz (MAMCEPAZ) en ocho municipios de Honduras, y que ha iniciado a partir de la aprobación de la ley de alimentación escolar del país, en 2016, fue presentada este jueves, durante el panel “Invertir en las escuelas para lograr un impacto nutricional sostenible”, paralelo al Comité de Seguridad Alimentaria Mundial (CSA), en Roma.