Noticias
Civil Society
29 Oct 2014
29 de ocutubre de 2014, Rome – FAO y La Via Campesina (LVC), uno de los movimientos sociales más grandes en todo el mundo, se reunieron hoy en la sede central de la FAO en Roma para identificar nuevas áreas concretas de colaboración para reforzar su acuerdo de asociación, que se formalizó en octubre de 2013 a través de un intercambio de cartas.
“Esta reunión es el resultado del trabajo duro que FAO y La Via Campesina han realizado para poner sobre la...
South-south Cooperation
15 Oct 2014
"Silent crisis of hunger and poverty a major challenge and common responsibility" - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang
15 October 2015, Rome - China has announced a $50 million donation to FAO to support the Organization's program of "South-South Cooperation" to improve food security and promote sustainable agricultural development over the next five years...
Private Sector
15 Oct 2014
Graziano da Silva addresses private sector representatives attending the CFS
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, today urged private sector representatives to contribute to the creation of conditions that ensure responsible investments in food production and agriculture.
“Investment is a private decision. It’s your decision. You are the only ones responsible for investments, which however need an enabling environment,” the FAO Director-General said speaking to members of the Private Sector Mechanism partnership attending the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in Rome.
“Help these principles become part of the environment considered necessary for investment,” Graziano da Silva said, referring to the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems (RAI) that were...
Partnerships
15 Oct 2014
Un programa conjunto UE-FAO aborda las necesidades de formación de los profesionales de la agricultura y la seguridad alimentaria
15 de octubre de 2014, Roma – Con el objetivo de fortalecer la capacidad de los países miembros para reducir las desigualdades de género en la agricultura y aumentar la productividad, la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), con el apoyo de la Unión Europea (UE), ha elaborado un nuevo curso de aprendizaje electrónico para ayudar a los encargados de formular políticas y planificadores agrícolas a desarrollar políticas y programas de genero para la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición.
El curso “El género en la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional”,...
Partnerships
15 Oct 2014
Feeding the global family: Does climate change put us all at risk?
Rome
Roundtable on feeding the global family: Does climate change put us all at risk?
When: 15 October 2014 - 1500 – 1600 (GMT +2)
Where: Sheikh Zayed Centre, FAO Headquarters
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ROUNDTABLE
MODERATOR and PANELISTS
Moderator: LAURIE GOERING - Thomson Reuters Foundation
Laurie Goering edits AlertNet Climate, the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s news website on the humanitarian and development impacts of climate change. Previously she was a Chicago Tribune correspondent based in New Delhi, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Havana, Rio de Janeiro and London.
LESLIE LIPPER - Senior Environmental Economist, Economic and Social Department, FAO
Leslie...