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Building strong alliances among legislators across the world is vital to making headway on hunger eradication, FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva said on Monday, as he underscored the agency's continued support to fostering global exchanges between lawmakers. In her keynote address at today's event, Amal Abdulla Al Qubaisi, President and Speaker of the Federal National Council of the United Arab Emirates said: "As parliamentarians we shoulder a particular responsibility - a responsibility to join hands with governments and nations to...

6 octobre 2016, Rome -La FAO et le Fonds français pour l'environnement mondial (FFEM) travailleront conjointement dans le cadre d'un nouveau partenariat afin d'améliorer l'état des ressources naturelles dans les zones humides du Sahel, en Afrique, en mettant l'accent sur la gestion durable des oiseaux d'eau migrateurs, essentiels à la sécurité alimentaire des populations locales. L'accord signé aujourd'hui entre la FAO et le FFEM, qui cofinance un tiers du projet estimé à 5 millions d'euros, cible de manière spécifique les quatre plus grandes zones humides de la région sahélienne, réparties entre l'Egypte, le Mali, le Sénégal, le Soudan et le Tchad. Le...

  Ambas instituciones han firmado un acuerdo de colaboración para crear una alianza que favorezca la inversión en países en desarrollo FAO y COFIDES colaborarán mutuamente en la indentificación de oportunidades de inversión en el sector de los agronegocios y en el ámbito de la formación especializada  La FAO y la Compañía Española de Financiación del Desarrollo (COFIDES) han firmado un acuerdo de colaboración para apoyar a pequeñas y medianas empresas que operan en el sector agroalimentario. La directora de la División de Asociaciones, Promoción Institucional y Desarrollo de las Capacidades de la FAO, Marcela Villareal, y el presidente de COFIDES, Salvador Marín, han...

La Organización de Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), llamó hoy la atención sobre la relación entre las pérdidas y desperdicios de alimentos con los efectos del cambio climático. "Más del 8% de las emisiones de  gases de efecto invernadero de la agricultura, silvicultura y otros usos de la tierra se vinculan directamente a las perdidas y desperdicios de alimentos a nivel mundial por el uso, entre otros, de energía, agua y suelo. Necesitamos soluciones innovadoras e inversiones responsables para reducir los desperdicios y su impacto sobre el cambio climático”, afirmó Marcela Villarreal, directora de la División de Asociaciones,...

The first ever visit of FAO Director-General to IFPRI’s headquarters in Washington last week celebrated four decades of rich partnership that has generated cutting-edge technical knowledge and enhanced expertise for supporting food security and improved nutrition. In warmly welcoming FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva, IFPRI’s Director General Shenggen Fan noted that the IFPRI-FAO partnership is built on a shared commitment to make agriculture and food systems more inclusive, productive, resilient, and sustainable. Together, FAO and IFPRI have helped enhance the capacity of policy makers to make evidence-based policy decisions, create information resources and networks for food security, strengthen the focus...

Last week, the National Congress of Honduras unanimously approved the School Feeding Law, which ensures that all the children attending public schools in the country will have access to healthy, safe and nutritious food. It is the latest sign of the importance that countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are giving to school feeding as a key public and political tool in the fight against hunger and in the achievement of the right to food."Starting in early childhood, we can ensure that children in our region will have both access to healthy food and also awake minds" said Raul...

The first ever visit of FAO Director-General to IFPRI’s headquarters in Washington last week celebrated four decades of rich partnership that has generated cutting-edge technical knowledge and enhanced expertise for supporting food security and improved nutrition. In warmly welcoming FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva, IFPRI’s Director General Shenggen Fan noted that the IFPRI-FAO partnership is built on a shared commitment to make agriculture and food systems more inclusive, productive, resilient, and sustainable. Together, FAO and IFPRI have helped enhance the capacity of policy makers to make evidence-based policy decisions, create information resources and networks for food security, strengthen the focus...

12 Septembre 2016, Rome - Aujourd'hui marque le jour de la coopération Sud-Sud (CSS) de l'ONU. Ici, nous saisissons l'occasion d'examiner certaines questions clés qui aident à comprendre pourquoi la coopération Sud-Sud est un moyen efficace et efficient pour parvenir à un monde sans faim. Alors, saviez-vous vraiment ... 1. Pourquoi 12 Septembre est la Journée de la coopération Sud-Sud? L'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies a décidé en 2003 d'observer cette journée chaque année pour souligner l'importance de la coopération Sud-Sud « comme un élément important de la coopération internationale pour le développement, qui offre des opportunités viables pour les pays en...

7 September 2016, Rome - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and FAO have signed a $15 million agreement aimed at boosting the capacity of developing countries to track key agricultural data -information that is essential to good policymaking and that will help track progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Guadalupe Valdez, a prominent Dominican economist and former Congresswoman, has been named Special Ambassador for Zero Hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean, in recognition of her contributions to the fulfilment of the right to food throughout the region. The Zero Hunger Challenge is a global initiative launched by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and aims to eradicate hunger worldwide. "My pledge to fight to eradicate hunger and malnutrition is a non-negotiable ethical commitment, not only to my country but to all peoples of the world," Guadalupe...