Nouvelles

14 November 2016, Morogoro, Tanzania - A new project by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) is set to support Tanzania’s efforts to increase rise production and productivity in twofold by 2018 through boosting productivity in farming among smallholder farmers. With funding from the Government of Venezuela, the Partnership for Sustainable Rice Systems Development in Africa project is going to support efforts to improve domestic rice supply and strengthen the rice market in the country.  “This project will provide an opportunity to build on on-going initiatives and partnerships by assessing national rice development strategies,” said FAO Country Representative,...

New agreement aims to improve food security, boost rural development, and address climate change in the Global South 11 November 2016, Marrakesh - FAO is joining forces with the South Centre, an intergovernmental organization of developing countries, to help the countries of the Global South eliminate hunger and malnutrition, reduce poverty, address climate change and achieve sustainable rural development under the umbrella of South-South cooperation. A five-year Memorandum of Understanding was signed today by Maria Helena Semedo, FAO Deputy Director-General for Natural Resources, and Vicente Paulo Yu, Deputy Executive Director of the South Centre on the sidelines of the 22nd Conference of...

Les projets soutenus par le mécanisme d’appui aux programmes multidonateurs (FMM) de la FAO ont obtenu des résultats significatifs en 2015 comme l’a mis en évidence le Rapport annuel 2015 du FMM qui est maintenant disponible. Le FMM est un mécanisme de financement destiné aux partenaires disposés à contribuer des financements sans affectation ou légèrement réservés. Créé en 2010, le FMM est actuellement soutenu par le Royaume de Belgique, les Pays-Bas et la Suède. Le FMM est un outil conçu pour appuyer le Cadre stratégique de la FAO.  « Le FMM est unique, car il permet à la FAO d’affecter des ressources là...

More than 100 lawmakers from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Spain highlighted the imperative need to act against the effects of climate change through legislation, at the opening of the VII Forum of the Parliamentary Front against Hunger. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, the Parliamentary Fronts against Hunger are key to enforcing the commitments of the Paris Agreements and the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22), especially those closely...

La FAO et l'Université Sapienza ont signé aujourd’hui un protocole d'accord qui souligne leur collaboration de longue date sur des thèmes tels que la sécurité alimentaire et l'agriculture durable. Le protocole d'accord, paraphé par, le Professeur Eugenio Gaudio, Recteur de l’Université Sapienza et par M. Daniel Gustafson, Directeur Général Adjoint de la FAO pour les Opérations, repose sur un solide plan de travail axé sur l'échange et le partage de connaissances et d'expertise, la promotion des techniques novatrices de recherche et le développement des capacités. La collaboration met l'accent sur quatre principaux domaines, à savoir le renforcement des statistiques et de l'analyse...

Dubai, Tuesday 1 November 2016. South-South Cooperation among the Global South is a fundamental tool achieve the Sustainable Development Goals set for 2030, conveyed FAO today at a joint event with Rome-based Agencies at the United Nations Global South-South Development Expo in Dubai this week. Rome-based Agencies expressed their firm commitment to facilitating South-South Cooperation (SSC) and Triangular Cooperation (TrC), offering their services in brokering “match-making” between countries for agricultural development, stressing that SSC is a complementary tool to North-South Cooperation. “We all need to work together in the context of the big agenda set out by the SDGs,” said...

The Republic of the Sudan has donated $150,000 to support the work of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), a unique international coordinating body for policy issues related to food and nutrition, hosted by FAO. The funds will help CFS strengthen the governance of food security and nutrition in countries of the global South. Following a call for assistance from FAO, a donation agreement was signed between Sudan and the UN Agency, which will administer the contributions through its multi-donor trust fund. The project will be completed by the end of 2017. "CFS needs long term investment by all...

The Sustainable Development Goals offer a vision of a fairer, more prosperous, peaceful and sustainable world in which no one is left behind.  FAO contributes to revitalizing the global partnership for sustainable development through partnerships that invest in critical agents of change – smallholders, family farmers, rural women, fisher folk, indigenous communities, youth and other vulnerable or marginalized people.       “The  SDGs are truly transformative. They are interlinked, calling for new combinations in the way policies, programmes, partnerships and investments...

La FAO et le Nouveau partenariat pour le développement de l'Afrique (NEPAD) unissent leurs forces en vue d'améliorer les opportunités commerciales et d'emplois des jeunes en milieu rural au Bénin, au Cameroun, au Malawi et au Niger, et ce, grâce à un don de 4 millions de dollars octroyé par le Fonds fiduciaire de solidarité africain.

13 October 2016, Rome. FAO launched the idea of a City to City Cooperation Mechanism which aims to support cities in the South, particularly in Africa, to share and promote best practices to strengthen urban food systems and help speed up the implementation of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP). The launch took place during the first day of the Mayor’s Meeting of the Milan Pact held at FAO Headquarters in Rome.   City to City cooperation, especially through south-south and triangular cooperation, is an important way to share good practices, where one city context can readily relate to another....