Noticias

The first ever visit of FAO Director-General to IFPRI’s headquarters in Washington last week celebrated four decades of rich partnership that has generated cutting-edge technical knowledge and enhanced expertise for supporting food security and improved nutrition. In warmly welcoming FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva, IFPRI’s Director General Shenggen Fan noted that the IFPRI-FAO partnership is built on a shared commitment to make agriculture and food systems more inclusive, productive, resilient, and sustainable. Together, FAO and IFPRI have helped enhance the capacity of policy makers to make evidence-based policy decisions, create information resources and networks for food security, strengthen the focus...

Roma, 12 de septiembre de 2016 – Hoy se conmemora el día de las Naciones Unidas para la Cooperación Sur-Sur. Aprovechamos esta oportunidad para repasar alguna de las cuestiones clave para entender por qué la Cooperación Sur-Sur es un medio efectivo y eficiente para conseguir un mundo libre de hambre. ¿Sabías que… 1.¿Por qué se celebra el día de las Naciones Unidas para la Cooperación Sur-Sur el 12 de septiembre? La Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas decidió en 2003 celebrar este día cada año para destacar la importancia de la Cooperación Sur-Sur como un elemento importante para la cooperación internacional para...

7 September 2016, Rome - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and FAO have signed a $15 million agreement aimed at boosting the capacity of developing countries to track key agricultural data -information that is essential to good policymaking and that will help track progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

La dominicana Guadalupe Valdez fue designada hoy por la FAO como Embajadora Especial Hambre Cero para América Latina y el Caribe, debido a su contribución a la consecución del derecho a la alimentación en toda la región. El Reto Hambre Cero es una iniciativa mundial lanzada por el Secretario General de la ONU, Ban Ki-moon, cuyo objetivo es fomentar el apoyo de todos los sectores para erradicar el hambre en todo el mundo. “El...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy (the Friedman School) at Tufts University have entered into a collaboration aiming to increase our understanding of what foods and nutrients people are actually consuming around the world.  Many policy and programme makers still rely, today, on data related to the availability of food at national level (i.e. food supply data) or at household level (i.e. household survey data). Providing governments and policymakers access to high-quality, timely and comprehensive food security and nutrition analyses is essential to encourage formulation of policies...