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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) and the University of Zambia (UNZA) will host a “Public Policy Cycles for Family Farming Training Program for State and Non-State Actors in Zambia” in Siavonga, Zambia from 25 – 29 April, 2022. The training will complement other capacity building efforts by various actors in the country for agricultural policy formulation for government officials, private sector, academia, among others. 

In order to promote some of the work FAO has been undertaking in partnership with civil society organizations (CSOs), the CSO Partnerships team of the FAO Partnerships and UN Collaboration Division has been putting together a small series of short publications, highlighting some of the successful collaborations of recent years. The third brief of the...

En el marco de la XIV Sesión Plenaria de la Asamblea Parlamentaria Euro-Latinoamericana (EUROLAT) convocada, este 2022, en Buenos Aires, bajo el lema "Una recuperación económica justa, inclusiva y en paz", se conformó hoy el Grupo de Trabajo Parlamentario Eurolatinoamericano por la Seguridad Alimentaria.  El...

The United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 (UNDFF) underscores the importance of family farming for achieving food security and adequate nutrition through inclusive and sustainable agri-food systems. Family farming brings benefits to rural people and territories, favouring economic and physical access to adequate food for all as well as safeguarding biodiversity and the environment. Moreover, it is paramount to coherently strengthen legislative and institutional frameworks across all the relevant policy areas of family farming to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. 

Wageningen, Netherlands/Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today formally launched a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Wageningen University and Research (WUR) in the Netherlands, aimed at developing and sharing knowledge and harnessing science, technologies and innovation for transforming agrifood systems. Collaborating since the 1970s, the two institutions have strengthened the partnership through development of a new MoU, concluded in December 2021.