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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...