Noticias

FAO and CGIAR have established a collaboration to enhance data sharing in the food and agricultural domain through the further use and enhancement of the AGROVOC Thesaurus, a multilingual controlled vocabulary that covers terminology related to FAO’s areas of interest. AGROVOC is a valuable tool to classify data homogeneously, facilitate interoperability and reuse. It can ease the collection, storage and use of agronomic data, enabling easy and reuse of the data by humans and machines.

España, principalmente a través de la Agencia Española de cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) y el Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, ha sido un firme aliado en todos los aspectos del trabajo de la FAO. El último Informe FAO + España resalta la cooperación entre la FAO y España en los últimos diez años, principalmente en el sector de la pesca y en la promoción de políticas que garantizan el derecho a la alimentación, la protección de los recursos fitogenéticos y la mejora de la seguridad alimentaria. El compromiso de España queda reflejado en

22 June 2021 – The second partners’ consultation meeting of a Triangular Cooperation initiative involving the Belgian University of Liège, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) took place virtually on 21 and 22 June 2021.  The first day began with a keynote address by speakers from the three organizations, as well as interventions from representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China (MARA), the Belgian Development Agency, Enabel, and the Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI). In his opening remarks, Mr. Anping YE, Director of the South-South and Triangular Cooperation...

Harare, 18 June 2021 – Veterinary officials from 15 countries in sub-Saharan Africa successfully completed the FAO online course on sharing knowledge and experiences regarding the development of national atlases for tsetse and African animal trypanosomosis (AAT).