Noticias
South-south Cooperation
28 Nov 2016
The Centre will support of the management and sharing of knowledge continent-wide
28 November 2016, Addis Ababa - The African Union Commission (AUC) convened a group of stakeholders, including Regional Economic Communities (RECs), development partners and academia at the AUC premises in Addis Ababa to discuss an assessment report for the establishment of an “African Union Centre of Best Practices for Food Security (AU-CBPFS)”.
The idea of the centre emerged from the Malabo Implementation Strategy and Road Map which recommended the establishment of Centre of Excellence to contribute to the vision of Africa’s Agricultural Transformation.
Facilitated by FAO and the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), the two-day assessment examined a cross-section of existing Centres...
South-south Cooperation
28 Nov 2016
New agreement builds on successful exchanges with China
28 November 2016, Rome - Mongolia and FAO will work more closely together to promote international partnerships and exchanges that support sustainable agriculture in the East Asian country, the UN agency said today.
A new agreement, signed by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and Mongolia's agriculture minister Purev Sergelen today, will strengthen the partnership between FAO and Mongolia on South-South and Triangular Cooperation -- a form of development partnership that boosts countries' agricultural capacity by linking their policy makers and producers with experts and technologies from around the world. This includes other emerging economies that have built special expertise in...
Resource Partners
18 Nov 2016
La semana pasada, la FAO y el Fondo Verde para el Clima firmaron un Acuerdo Marco de Preparación con miras a posibilitar que los países en desarrollo se asocien con la FAO para llevar a cabo actividades para mejorar su acceso al Fondo Verde para el Clima. El Acuerdo fue firmado durante la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (COP22) de Marrakech, que tuvo lugar del 7 al 18 de noviembre de 2016, por la Sra. Maria Helena Semedo, Directora General Adjunta de la FAO, el Sr. Javier Manzanares, Director Ejecutivo Interino...
Civil Society
17 Nov 2016
The UN agency based in the Italian Capital will donate excess food and other products to the Foundation of Rome’s diocese
FAO and Caritas Roma have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to provide assistance to people facing food insecurity in the Italian capital.
Thanks to the agreement signed today by Daniel Gustafson, FAO’s Deputy Director General (Operations), and Monsignor Enrico Feroci, Director of the Rome-based branch of Caritas, the UN agency will donate excess food and other basic products coming from its headquarters,in the Italian capital to the charity for distribution around Rome..
Every year, about one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption is either wasted or lost - an amount that...
South-south Cooperation
14 Nov 2016
The Partnership for Sustainable Rice Systems Development in Africa project, with funding from the Government of Venezuela, is going to support efforts to improve domestic rice supply and strengthen the rice market in the country
14 November 2016, Morogoro, Tanzania - A new project by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) is set to support Tanzania’s efforts to increase rise production and productivity in twofold by 2018 through boosting productivity in farming among smallholder farmers.
With funding from the Government of Venezuela, the Partnership for Sustainable Rice Systems Development in Africa project is going to support efforts to improve domestic rice supply and strengthen the rice market in the country.
“This project will provide an opportunity to build on on-going initiatives and partnerships by assessing national rice development strategies,” said FAO Country Representative,...