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Nairobi – FAO, WFP and UNICEF share the goal of strengthening resilience of the most vulnerable in Eastern and Central Africa. The three agencies confirmed their commitment to play a key role for mobilizing change through resilience building in the region. The agencies made the pledge during a two-day workshop in Nairobi, Kenya.  The joint statement is a new step in a process that started after the 2011 drought crisis in the Horn of Africa, when donors, governments and UN agencies pledged to work differently. Following the Heads of States Summit in September 2011, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) received...

Washington, DC/Rome - La directrice générale et présidente du Fonds pour l'environnement mondial (FEM), Mme Naoko Ishii, a approuvé aujourd'hui un projet coordonné par la FAO visant à améliorer la santé et la durabilité des pêcheries de thon dans le monde en réduisant les prises illégales et en soutenant les espèces et écosystèmes marins apparentés. Le FEM, une institution internationale qui fédère 183 pays autour des questions d'environnement et de promotion du développement durable, a approuvé le financement de la phase de mise en œuvre d'un projet multipartenaires coordonné par la FAO ayant pour objectif une meilleure gestion des pêcheries de thon...

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...

La FAO et le Plan International collaboreront à la promotion de l’alimentation des  environnements sécurisés dans les foyers pauvres et les communautés, avec un accent sur les enfants vulnérables et leurs familles. L'accord signé aujourd'hui par Marcela Villareal, Directeur du bureau des partenariats, des acctivités de plaidoyer et du renforcement des capacities à la  FAO et  par Rosemary McCarney, président et PDG du Plan Canada, couvre les réponses aux besoins critiques ainsi que des initiatives à long terme pour s'attaquer aux obstacles systémiques à stabiliser, et garder un environnement de sécurité alimentaire durable. "La FAO est fière de ce partenariat avec...

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...

Support to family farming through improved production and market access is essential in the fight against hunger. With this idea as a basis, FAO and Italian food chain Eataly signed a Memorandum of Understanding covering collaboration during the International Year of Family Farming in 2014 . The agreement signed by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and Eataly CEO Nicola Farinetti establishes various initiatives, such as resource mobilization in support of family farmers in Africa and Latin America. Thus, part of the profits from the sale of certain products in the Eataly establishments will go to FAO projects in developing countries. This...

10 octobre 2013, Rome – “Nombre des sociétés qui sont ici aujourd’hui sont présentes dans de nombreux pays. Cela est important car ce que vous faites localement contre la faim peut rapidement devenir une action planétaire”, a déclaré le Directeur général de la FAO José Graziano da Silva au cours d’une réunion des partenariats avec le secteur privé qui s’est tenue aujourd’hui au siège. M. Graziano da Silva a annoncé la mise en place par la FAO d’un fonds fiduciaire multidonateurs afin de permettre aux entreprises du secteur privé d’apporter leur contribution financière au travail de l’Organisation en soutenant ses projets...

 La FAO a signé un nouvel accord de collaboration avec la Fédération internationale des sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge (FICR), le plus grand réseau humanitaire du monde, afin d'améliorer la sécurité alimentaire et renforcer la résilience des communautés vulnérables. La FAO et la FICR ont convenu que la FAO fournira un encadrement technique pour compléter le vaste réseau de 13 millions de volontaires de la FICR - qui assistent quelque 150 millions de personnes - et ce, afin d'aider les ménages pauvres à s'adapter aux menaces et catastrophes qui pèsent sur l'agriculture, la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition. Le...

FAO and the International Co-operatives Alliance (ICA)begin a new collaboration with the shared conviction that agricultural and food co-operatives must be central to any agricultural and rural development strategy. A Memorandum of Understanding that underlines this idea was signed today at FAO Headquarters by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and ICA President Pauline Green.“Co-operatives are back to FAO’s agenda. Bringing co-operatives back to the global agenda is also a priority request I receive from all African countries”, said FAO Director-General Graziano da Silva. “I believe that we did a really good job joining efforts during...