Noticias
Parliamentary alliances
02 Jun 2017
FAO Director-General addresses European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
To achieve sustainable development we must transform current agriculture and food systems, including by supporting smallholders and family farmers, reducing pesticide and chemical use, and improving land conservation practices, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said today addressing European lawmakers.
"Massive agriculture intensification is contributing to increased deforestation, water scarcity, soil depletion and the level of greenhouse gas emission," Graziano da Silva said. He stressed that while high-input and resource intensive farming systems have substantially increased food production, this has come at a high cost to the environment.
South-south Cooperation
29 May 2017
Niger plans to modernize its livestock farming in the image of the Tunisian model
29 May 2017, Niger - Niger plans to modernize its livestock farming in the image of the Tunisian model. To achieve this, Mr Albadé Abouba, Minister of State, of Agriculture and Livestock, thanks to the support of FAO Niger, headed a strong delegation of experts and producers that travelled to Tunisia from 16 to 20 May 2017, where the producers, experts and researchers of the visited country were asked to back Niger in transposing its successful experiences.
Exchanges with Tunisian officials, experts, researchers and producers enabled the Nigerian delegation to obtain as much information as possible on livestock research, livestock feed production,...
South-south Cooperation
26 May 2017
FAO provides agricultural inputs to targeted communities in five prefectures of Lower Guinea
26 May 2017, Republic of Guinea: An FAO delegation, accompanied by representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture, undertook a supervisory mission to the Republic of Guinea from 22 to 26 May 2017, to ensure the technical follow-up of the activities carried out in the framework of the Regional Partnership for Sustainable Rice Development in Sub-Saharan Africa project (GCP/RAF/489/VEN), funded by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The project, which targets 10 African countries (Benin, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, United Republic of Tanzania and Uganda), aims to promote efficient and more productive rice systems for the enhancement of...
Resource Partners
25 May 2017
El miércoles 17 de mayo de 2017 tuvo lugar una reunión de consulta entre la FAO y Francia en la Sede de la FAO en Roma. El objetivo de la reunión era examinar los aspectos técnicos y transversales, así como los operativos, de la ejecución del acuerdo marco firmado en septiembre de 2012 para el período 2012-2017.
Los intercambios realizados con la delegación de Francia, que estaba compuesta por representantes del Ministerio de Agricultura y Alimentación, el Ministerio para Europa y de Asuntos Exteriores, institutos de investigación y la Agencia Francesa de Desarrollo, fueron muy fructíferos. Durante las diferentes sesiones organizadas...
Resource Partners
24 May 2017
La consulta anual con la delegación de Noruega tuvo lugar el 19 de mayo de 2017 en la Sede de la FAO en Roma. La FAO agradece la generosa contribución de 45 millones de USD para las actividades del nuevo barco de investigación Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. Noruega y la FAO examinaron también la Primera Reunión de las Partes en el Acuerdo sobre medidas del Estado rector del puerto destinadas a prevenir, desalentar y eliminar la pesca ilegal, no declarada y no reglamentada, así como la Primera Reunión del Grupo Especial de Trabajo que se celebrarán en Oslo del 29 de...