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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.