Noticias

Dakar, Senegal - FAO Director-General met with representatives of the Senegalese private sector and emphasized the key role that they can play in reinforcing food security and in developing sustainable agriculture. Companies present discussed their activities ad issues encountered in the areas of  distribution of agricultural inputs, production and processing of local commodities including cereals, fruits. The representatives of the Senegalese Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture, and the national Employer Federation shared their global vision of how the agricultural sector could be more efficient. They proposed to develop an integrated approach from a "modern production" to locally processed and purchased food products, including...

Rome - A seminar titled “The efficiency and inclusiveness of Public Private Partnerships as a tool in the fight against hunger” was held at FAO headquarters today. The Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department (AG) and the Office of Partnerships, Advocacy and Capacity Development (OPC) jointly held the seminar. The central theme discussed over the two-hour seminar concerned public private partnerships (PPP) as a tool in the fight against hunger. From this theme, two key questions emerged: how PPPs can be an efficient tool in eradicating hunger, and how PPPs be inclusive of local agribusiness and smallholder farmers.  Representatives from FAO, IFAD and the Standards...

“With their wealth of ancestral knowledge”, indigenous and tribal peoples make for “key partners in the fight against hunger, malnutrition, and food insecurity”, remarked FAO’s Sharon Brennen-Haylock, as the General Assembly’s Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Affairs (“3rd”) Committee opened discussions in New York on the rights of indigenous peoples. The pursuit of traditional hunting and pastoral lifestyles, noted FAO’s Liaison Director to the United Nations, helps “maintain high levels of biological diversity, including invaluable genetic resources for food and agriculture”. Such practices and know-how, she continued, “create an important pillar of the food security of present and future generations worldwide”. Of the...

El apoyo a la agricultura familiar a través de ayudas a la producción y mejora en el acceso a los mercados es fundamental en la lucha contra el hambre. Con esta idea como base, la Organización de Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y la cadena italiana Eataly han firmado hoy un Memorando de Entendimiento que establece el marco para acciones conjuntas en el contexto del Año Internacional de la Agricultura Familiar que se celebrará en 2014. El acuerdo firmado por el Director General de la FAO, José Graziano da Silva, y Nicola Farinetti, CEO de Eataly, establece...

El apoyo a la agricultura familiar a través de ayudas a la producción y mejora en el acceso a los mercados es fundamental en la lucha contra el hambre. Con esta idea como base, la Organización de Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y la cadena italiana Eataly han firmado hoy un Memorando de Entendimiento que establece el marco para acciones conjuntas en el contexto del Año Internacional de la Agricultura Familiar que se celebrará en 2014. El acuerdo firmado por el Director General de la FAO, José Graziano da Silva, y Nicola Farinetti, CEO de Eataly, establece...