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“With their wealth of ancestral knowledge”, indigenous and tribal peoples make for “key partners in the fight against hunger, malnutrition, and food insecurity”, remarked FAO’s Sharon Brennen-Haylock, as the General Assembly’s Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Affairs (“3rd”) Committee opened discussions in New York on the rights of indigenous peoples. The pursuit of traditional hunting and pastoral lifestyles, noted FAO’s Liaison Director to the United Nations, helps “maintain high levels of biological diversity, including invaluable genetic resources for food and agriculture”. Such practices and know-how, she continued, “create an important pillar of the food security of present and future generations worldwide”. Of the...

Support to family farming through improved production and market access is essential in the fight against hunger. With this idea as a basis, FAO and Italian food chain Eataly signed a Memorandum of Understanding covering collaboration during the International Year of Family Farming in 2014 . The agreement signed by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and Eataly CEO Nicola Farinetti establishes various initiatives, such as resource mobilization in support of family farmers in Africa and Latin America. Thus, part of the profits from the sale of certain products in the Eataly establishments will go to FAO projects in developing countries. This...

10 octobre 2013, Rome – “Nombre des sociétés qui sont ici aujourd’hui sont présentes dans de nombreux pays. Cela est important car ce que vous faites localement contre la faim peut rapidement devenir une action planétaire”, a déclaré le Directeur général de la FAO José Graziano da Silva au cours d’une réunion des partenariats avec le secteur privé qui s’est tenue aujourd’hui au siège. M. Graziano da Silva a annoncé la mise en place par la FAO d’un fonds fiduciaire multidonateurs afin de permettre aux entreprises du secteur privé d’apporter leur contribution financière au travail de l’Organisation en soutenant ses projets...

 La FAO a signé un nouvel accord de collaboration avec la Fédération internationale des sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge (FICR), le plus grand réseau humanitaire du monde, afin d'améliorer la sécurité alimentaire et renforcer la résilience des communautés vulnérables. La FAO et la FICR ont convenu que la FAO fournira un encadrement technique pour compléter le vaste réseau de 13 millions de volontaires de la FICR - qui assistent quelque 150 millions de personnes - et ce, afin d'aider les ménages pauvres à s'adapter aux menaces et catastrophes qui pèsent sur l'agriculture, la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition. Le...

FAO and the International Co-operatives Alliance (ICA)begin a new collaboration with the shared conviction that agricultural and food co-operatives must be central to any agricultural and rural development strategy. A Memorandum of Understanding that underlines this idea was signed today at FAO Headquarters by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and ICA President Pauline Green.“Co-operatives are back to FAO’s agenda. Bringing co-operatives back to the global agenda is also a priority request I receive from all African countries”, said FAO Director-General Graziano da Silva. “I believe that we did a really good job joining efforts during...