Noticias

Anastasia Mwamula roots weeds from her quarter-of-an-acre paddy field barefoot. It’s a back-breaking exercise. But, at 51 years of age and with eight children to feed, she’s gotten used to hard work. Every morning, Anastasia and her 58-year-old husband, Zakaria Wapali, leave their red-brick home on the edge of a tiny village known as Scheme View to tend to this and other crops on their 15-acre field, a two-kilometre walk away. There, they grow cabbage, bananas, mangoes, maize, cassava, tomatoes and—of course—rice. That’s because Anastasia and Zakaria hail from Butaleja, a farming district that could easily be described as “the rice basket...

Brussels, Belgium – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Ghent University (UGent) have agreed today to formalize and strengthen their partnership through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The signing took place on the sidelines of the FAO-Belgium strategic dialogue that takes place in the Egmont Palace in Brussels.   FAO Deputy Director-General Maurizio Martina...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) and the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) have reaffirmed their commitment to transforming agrifood systems in the Mediterranean region by renewing their Memorandum of Understanding. Originally signed in 2021, this partnership has already achieved remarkable progress in contributing to agrifood systems transformation efforts in the Mediterranean, and its renewal reaffirms the partners’...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) have renewed their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for an additional four years, extending their partnership to January 2029 to advance renewable energy solutions in agrifood systems and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The agreement was formalized through an exchange of letters between FAO Director of the Office of Climate...

17/12/2024, Amman - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM), the Municipality of Milan, the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact and Let’s Food, launches a two-day workshop titled “Together in Action on Food Losses and Waste at City Level,” which aims to address the pressing issue of food loss and waste (FLW) in urban areas.