Nouvelles
Private Sector
09 Jan 2017
In cooperation with the Global Good Fund, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has handed more than 5000 Mazzi™ containers that provide clean and effective storage of milk, to the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries. The Ministry will distribute the containers to farmers in eight regions of Ethiopia.
Millions of smallholder dairy farmers in Ethiopia rely on milk for both...![FAO and Belgian Université Catholique de Louvain sign partnership to tackle climate change challenges](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_1_MoU_FAO_UCL_19122016.jpg)
Fao-Academia
19 Dec 2016
Building bridges between science and development to combat climate change and its impacts is at the heart of a new partnership agreement between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) that was signed at an official event held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, on Monday, 19 December 2016.
Mustapha Sinaceur, Director of FAO’s Liaison Office with the European Union and Belgium said the partnership was based on a “pre-existing, fruitful relationship between our two institutions” and that they shared a vision and common goals for enhancing institutional capacities to address global climate change mitigation and adaptation. “FAO and UCL...![Latin American and Caribbean Parliament adopts a model law for the promotion of family agriculture](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_1_PARLATINO1.jpg)
Parliamentary alliances
12 Dec 2016
New law includes recommendations and principles - designed with the support of FAO - for countries to strengthen family agriculture through national legislation.
Members of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (PARLATINO) unanimously approved a Model law on family farming, which includes recommendations and guidelines for countries to strengthen this key sector for food security, FAO said today. The law was voted on December 3rd during the XXXII General Assembly of PARLATINO held in Panama City. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, the new model law sets out guiding principles, definitions and obligations...![FAO tapped to lead a global dialogue to mainstream biodiversity in agriculture forestry and fisheries](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_Biodiversity.jpg)
Resource Partners
08 Dec 2016
Cancun, Mexico - More than 190 countries at a major United Nations conference in Mexico have pledged to step up efforts to integrate biodiversity into the policies of their agriculture, forests and fisheries sectors.
On 3 December, countries adopted the Cancun Declaration, named after the Mexican city where the 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), known as 'COP13,' is being held. The Declaration represents an unprecedented recognition from the international community that biodiversity protection must involve different governmental and economic sectors and not just environment ministries.
At the closure of the COP13 High Level...![FAO will support the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation initiative on Triangular Cooperation](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_24615_4560.jpg)
South-south Cooperation
01 Dec 2016
The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation advocates for South-South and Triangular Cooperation to deliver long-lasting results that can help achieve the SDGs
1 December 2016, Nairobi – FAO will support the new initiative on Triangular Cooperation of the Global Partnerships for Effective Development Cooperation, initiated by Mexico and Canada. A working group will work at political and operational levels to ensure that triangular programming is grounded on the core principles of effectiveness.
The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation recognized South-South and Triangular Cooperation “as an increasingly potent feature of international cooperation for development”, in its Second High-Level Meeting held these days in Nairobi.
The Global Partnership is therefore joining the main international cooperation frameworks to recognize the effectiveness of these forms of cooperation...