Noticias
Resource Partners
23 Jun 2017
En ocasión de la Cumbre de Solidaridad con los Refugiados (Kampala, 22-23 de junio de 2017), Uganda, con el apoyo de las Naciones Unidas, reunió a los Jefes de Estado y los representantes de organizaciones nacionales, regionales e internacionales, para brindar apoyo al Gobierno y su población y mostrarles su solidaridad en sus esfuerzos en proteger y prestar asistencia a los refugiados.
Presentado por Su Excelencia Yoweri Museveni, Presidente de Uganda, y el Secretario General de las Naciones Unidas, Antonio Guterres, el objetivo principal de este acto era movilizar el apoyo internacional para los refugiados y las comunidades de...
Resource Partners
22 Jun 2017
The annual consultation meeting between the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and FAO took place on Wednesday, 21 May, at FAO Headquarters in Rome. FAO highlighted the valuable support provided by Sida and other Swedish partners to the FAO Programme of Work, particularly to the core funding, humanitarian programmes, and country-level programmes.
FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department presented the results of the Ocean Conference (5-9 June, 2017, New York), and FAO’s role in enhancing SDG 14 (“Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development”). FAO acknowledged and expressed appreciation...
South-south Cooperation
22 Jun 2017
The President of the Republic of Uganda writes a letter to the President of the People’s Republic of China to recognize their significant cooperation
22 June 2017, Rome. The Government of Uganda committed to continue South-South Cooperation activities with China, facilitated by FAO, in light of the excellent results achieved so far. In a letter addressed to the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, the President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, wished “to recognize the significant cooperation between our two sister nations”.
“I highly appreciate the recent cordial cooperation under the framework of FAO South-South Cooperation Activities aimed at fostering agricultural development for the mutual benefit of our people,” stated the President of Uganda in the letter to his Chinese counterpart.
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Resource Partners
21 Jun 2017
En las consultas anuales se toma nota de los buenos resultados de 2016 y se inician los debates sobre la próxima fase del fondo
En la consulta anual del Mecanismo de apoyo a programas multiasociados, la FAO presentó los logros alcanzados mediante el fondo en 2016, gracias al cual se obtuvieron resultados importantes hacia el objetivo del hambre cero, la sostenibilidad del sistema alimentario y agrícola y la reducción de la pobreza en las zonas rurales.
En su calidad de mecanismo innovador para apoyar la labor de la FAO a través de contribuciones no condicionadas o asignadas en condiciones favorables, este fondo de múltiples asociados recibió el apoyo generoso de Bélgica, la Cooperación de Flandes, los Países Bajos, Suecia y Suiza por más de 75...
Fao-Academia
21 Jun 2017
Kyoto University and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) jointly held the International Symposium on the Impact of Climate Change on Food and Agriculture to mark the one year anniversary of the signing of their Memorandum of Understanding and the 20th anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol. The Symposium took place at Kyoto University on 12 June 2017.
The Symposium was attended by over 120 participants, including the Mayor of Kyoto, the Dean of Kyoto University, the Director of the Economics Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of...