Nouvelles

Panama, 4 September 2017-  Starting today and for the following two weeks, Panama will host Cuban specialists in coconut production, to exchange experiences and strengthen the capacities of the Ministry of Agricultural Development (MIDA) and the Institute of Agricultural Research in Panama (IDIAP), within the context of pest and disease detection and integrated coconut crop management. Cooperation between Panama and Cuba for the technological improvement of coconut production comes with technical backstopping and support from FAO. During the mission, specialists from the Higher Organization of Business Management (OSDE Agrícola) and the National Centre for Agricultural and Livestock Health (CENSA) of Cuba, and...

En juillet dernier, l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour le développement industriel (ONUDI) et la FAO ont signé un accord interinstitutions dans le cadre d’un projet ONUDI/Fonds pour l’environnement mondial (FEM) avec l’objectif de mettre en œuvre le Programme d’action stratégique à l’appui de la gestion durable du grand écosystème marin du Golfe du Mexique. Dans ce contexte, l’ONUDI, en tant qu’agent de mise en œuvre et contributeur, a confié à la FAO la tâche de fournir une assistance technique à l’Institut national de la pêche au Mexique (Instituto Nacional de Pesca - INAPESCA) pour mener à bien les activités clés...

1 September 2017, El Salvador - 30 participants completed their training day on the blended Course on School Feeding Programmes with extensive knowledge and joint considerations on food and nutritional security in schools in El Salvador, based on the lessons learned in Brazil. The closing ceremony was attended by officials from the Brazilian Embassy, the Technical Secretariat and Presidency Planning (SETEPLAN), the Ministry of Education (MINED), the Solidarity Fund for Health (FOSALUD), the Centre for Consumer Defense (CDC), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in El Salvador, and the National Centre for Agricultural and Forestry...

Maceió, Alagoas, 31 août 2017 - Environ 100 personnes, dont 32 représentants latino-américains de six pays et 36 membres de 14 pays africains ont participé au dialogue: Défis et Opportunités pour la Coopération Sud-Sud dans la chaîne de valeur du coton, qui a eu lieu parallèlement au 11ème Congrès brésilien du coton, dans la ville de Maceió, Alagoas, au Brésil.  Le dialogue, organisé par l'Agence brésilienne de coopération (ABC / MRE), l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) et l'Organisation internationale du travail (OIT), a favorisé l'échange d'expériences visant à l'identification des défis et des propositions...

28 August 2017, El Salvador - The technical team of the Centre for the Development of Fisheries and Aquaculture (CENDEPESCA) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG), shared a strengthening process to develop fisheries and aquaculture research, and for the application of sorting and management models of fishery resources. The training was developed by the Under-Secretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism of Chile, within the framework of South-South Cooperation between this South American country and El Salvador, with the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The purpose of...

Accra, 28 August 2017 – FAO and Ghana have created a knowledge exchange platform (KEP) for reducing rural poverty to share the national knowledge on rural poverty reduction (programmes and initiatives) with neighbouring countries through South-South Cooperation (SSC) schemes.  Ghana has recently made great progress in reducing rural poverty and looks forward to share some of their successful experiences that could benefit neighbour countries facing similar challenges as those they have recently overcome.  “Solutions that work best in one southern country are of greater possibility of working well in another,” said Dr Abebe Haile Gabriel, Deputy Regional Representative for Africa and FAO...

FAO and UNICEF are strengthening their partnership to promote the expansion of social protection as one pathway out of poverty. A new joint study refutes some of the misperceptions and criticisms around cash transfers in the context of sub-Saharan Africa, the region currently home for three quarters of world’s extreme-poor. These myths include: “cash is wasted on alcohol and tobacco”, “transfers are just hand-outs”, “cash creates dependency”, “transfers lead to negative economic...

A new FAO project targets Syrian refugees and host communities in Turkey, for development of vocational skills in the agriculture sector. The aim is to provide employment opportunities for some 900 people in five provinces of Southern Turkey: Adana, Gaziantep, Isparta, Mersin and Sanliurfa. With a budget of US$ 1.7 million, the project is financed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), with Turkey’s Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock as lead executing partner and FAO as implementing agency.

Le Gouvernement libyen vient de signer un accord de 3,5 millions de dollars avec la FAO pour renforcer ses capacités techniques et fonctionnelles nationales en agriculture. Le projet vise à renforcer les capacités et assurer des services de soutien gouvernementaux plus efficaces et plus performants dans le secteur agricole avec l’objectif de créer de meilleures synergies et d’avoir des impacts plus positifs.