Noticias

7 June 2015, Rome - China and FAO today signed a $50 million agreement to support developing countries in building sustainable food systems and inclusive agricultural value chains, recognizing the growing importance of collaboration between Southern countries in the fight against extreme hunger and poverty...

19 de mayo de 2015, Milan – FAO acompañó a Caritas en su día inaugural en la Expo Milan 2015. Rolf Hackbart, Director Adjunto de la Oficina de Asociaciones, Promoción Institucional y Desarrollo de la Capacidad, representó a FAO y abogó por luchar junto a Caritas para erradicar el hambre. El evento se centró en la agricultura familiar y a pequeña escala. “Necesitamos cambiar la manera en la que nos relacionamos con la tierra. La agricultura familiar es fundamental para conseguirlo”, dijo Hackbart Hackbart animó a reforzar los medios de vida de las comunidades rurales en cuanto a educación,...

La FAO e IKEA Suecia, la cadena sueca de muebles y objetos para el hogar, resolvieron hoy colaborar en una iniciativa de certificación forestal encaminada a promover la gestión sostenible de las plantaciones forestales y empoderar a las comunidades de Vietnam que subsisten de los bosques. 

FAO and the John Cabot University agree on “Communicating to Inspire Change: Food Security and Sustainability” a summer short course in July 2015 designed to provide University students with a solid and broad background on food security and sustainability so that they may have the key informational foundations to develop methods and tools for “Communicating to Inspire Change.”   The course will be in English. During the second half of 2014, the Office for Corporate Communications in collaboration with the Office for Partnerships, Advocacy and Capacity Development (OPC), FAO, established linkages with a number of Universities worldwide, especially prior to the International...

FAO is proud to announce a new global flagship partnership with IULM (International University of Languages and Media, Milan). On Monday 20 April, Mario Lubetkin, Director of Corporate Communication at FAO signed a strategic agreement with IULM University Chancellor Professor Giovanni Puglisi. The alliance seals a marriage of top-level skills: FAO's widely recognized know-how in the field of nutrition and the educational excellence of IULM. In particular, in this the year of the Universal Exposition of Milan, FAO and the University will be offering thirty students the opportunity to follow a course titled “Communicating to Inspire Change: harnessing the bounties of...