Noticias

La dominicana Guadalupe Valdez fue designada hoy por la FAO como Embajadora Especial Hambre Cero para América Latina y el Caribe, debido a su contribución a la consecución del derecho a la alimentación en toda la región. El Reto Hambre Cero es una iniciativa mundial lanzada por el Secretario General de la ONU, Ban Ki-moon, cuyo objetivo es fomentar el apoyo de todos los sectores para erradicar el hambre en todo el mundo. “El...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy (the Friedman School) at Tufts University have entered into a collaboration aiming to increase our understanding of what foods and nutrients people are actually consuming around the world.  Many policy and programme makers still rely, today, on data related to the availability of food at national level (i.e. food supply data) or at household level (i.e. household survey data). Providing governments and policymakers access to high-quality, timely and comprehensive food security and nutrition analyses is essential to encourage formulation of policies...

The Parliamentarians, who gathered together in San José, Costa Rica, are working to achieve the new Sustainable Development Goals, and especially the Goal2 which aims at ending hunger and malnutrition by 2030. The first meeting of Mesoamerica's Parliamentary Fronts and Colombia will strengthen their cooperation, exchange experiences and define the priority areas of the legislative agendas of Mesoamerica and Colombia. During the meeting, the Parliamentary Fronts against Hunger of Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica,...

FAO, the Pan-African Parliament and the Parliamentary Front against Hunger together for Food and Nutrition Security in Africa Johannesburg - The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) delivered a workshop with PAP Parliamentarians in South Africa, to advance the process of establishing the Pan African Parliamentary Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (PAPA-FSN) as they...

7 July 2016, Rome – FAO and Norway have agreed to continue an already fruitful cooperation in the strategic areas of fisheries, the right to food, climate-smart agriculture, deforestation, gender equity and food loss and waste. An agreement signed today by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and Norway’s Ambassador to FAO, Inge Nordang, paves the way for the continuation of a longstanding successful collaboration. It also covers funding and joint work on emergencies and response to natural disasters. Norway is among FAO’s top 20 resource partners and has been the third largest donor country of voluntary contributions to the organization in...

La República de Singapur se unió al Programa de Profesionales Asociados de la FAO en enero, por lo que se ha convertido en el cuarto país asiático en participar en el sistema. Otros participantes son la República Popular Democrática de Corea, el Japón y la República de Corea. La República de Singapur se convirtió en Estado Miembro de la FAO en 2013.  Los candidatos serán seleccionados después de haber finalizado las pruebas por escrito y las entrevistas realizadas por la FAO. Los requisitos de calificación son poseer un título superior académico, fluidez en la comunicación oral y escrita en un...

El pasado miércoles 15 de junio de 2016, el Gobierno del Reino de Bélgica, representado por el Ministerio de la Cooperación para el Desarrollo, y la FAO firmaron un nuevo Acuerdo Marco cuya finalidad es reforzar la colaboración entre Bélgica y la FAO en la ayuda humanitaria y al desarrollo, armonizando al mismo tiempo las estrategias de Bélgica para los sectores relacionados con la agricultura sostenible, la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición con los Programas Estratégicos de la FAO. La colaboración histórica entre Bélgica y la FAO ha ofrecido un apoyo considerable y duradero a la Organización mediante cuotas y...

Rome, 21 June 2016 – Capacity development for agricultural innovation needs to include a nutritional dimension, experts agreed at a symposium in Rome, discussing ways to make capacity development for innovation in agriculture better equipped to face the challenges of the 21st century. Amid growing consensus that to feed a growing world population and meet major challenges such as climate change, agriculture must increase its production and productivity while at the same time save the...

Roma, 21 de junio de 2016. Una red de organizaciones de la sociedad civil de todo el mundo, con el apoyo técnico de la FAO, han publicado el Manual Popular de las Directrices sobre la Gobernanza de la Tierra, la Pesca y los Bosques. Es un esfuerzo dirigido a profundizar en la implementación a nivel de base de las Directrices voluntarias de tenencia responsable de la tierra, pesca y bosques (VGGT, por sus siglas en inglés). Manual popular El Manual Popular es una guía pedagógica y didáctica que aspira a facilitar la comprensión de las Directrices...

FAO and the Roma Tre University in Rome have signed an agreement to strengthen their ongoing collaboration in the education sector. FAO will now contribute its expertise in the key themes of Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainable Development to the university Master’s courses. As a result of the agreement, Roma Tre will formally integrate FAO's materials and resources in its English-language Master’s programs "Human Development and Food Security" and "Cooperatives: Economics, Law and Management". These programs are of particular relevance to FAO’s priority areas of work: Family Farming, Nutrition, Microfinance, Cooperatives, Gender, Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems,...