Noticias
Resource Partners
28 Oct 2016
Donation of $150,000 aims to support countries of the global South
The Republic of the Sudan has donated $150,000 to support the work of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), a unique international coordinating body for policy issues related to food and nutrition, hosted by FAO. The funds will help CFS strengthen the governance of food security and nutrition in countries of the global South.
Following a call for assistance from FAO, a donation agreement was signed between Sudan and the UN Agency, which will administer the contributions through its multi-donor trust fund. The project will be completed by the end of 2017.
"CFS needs long term investment by all...
Private Sector
25 Oct 2016
The Sustainable Development Goals offer a vision of a fairer, more prosperous, peaceful and sustainable world in which no one is left behind. FAO contributes to revitalizing the global partnership for sustainable development through partnerships that invest in critical agents of change – smallholders, family farmers, rural women, fisher folk, indigenous communities, youth and other vulnerable or marginalized people.
“The SDGs are truly transformative. They are interlinked, calling for new combinations in the way policies, programmes, partnerships and investments...
Resource Partners
20 Oct 2016
La FAO y la Nueva Alianza para el Desarrollo de África (NEPAD) se han unido para fomentar las oportunidades de empleo y de negocio para los jóvenes de las zonas rurales de Benín, Camerún, Malawi y Níger con un fondo de 4 millones de dólares EEUU aportados por el Fondo Fiduciario de Solidaridad para África.
South-south Cooperation
13 Oct 2016
The mechanism aims at supporting cities in the South to share and promote best practices to strengthen urban food systems. 130 cities have signed up to the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact that sets out key goals for urban food security.
13 October 2016, Rome. FAO launched the idea of a City to City Cooperation Mechanism which aims to support cities in the South, particularly in Africa, to share and promote best practices to strengthen urban food systems and help speed up the implementation of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP). The launch took place during the first day of the Mayor’s Meeting of the Milan Pact held at FAO Headquarters in Rome.
City to City cooperation, especially through south-south and triangular cooperation, is an important way to share good practices, where one city context can readily relate to another....
Parliamentary alliances
13 Oct 2016
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) signed today in Egypt a key Memorandum of Understanding with the Pan-African Parliament, announcing the establishment of the Pan African Parliamentary Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (PAPA-FSN).
This agreement is part of a broad strategy to step a partnership and mobilize key actors in the society with the aim to ending hunger and malnutrition by 2030.
Conveying the message of FAO Director-General to the pan-African parliamentarians from the 54 countries of the African Union, FAO...