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Les Membres de la FAO ont adopté la nouvelle Stratégie relative à la mobilisation du secteur privé 2021-2025 à la dernière session du Conseil, en décembre 2020. La Stratégie est le fruit d’une nouvelle vision tournée vers l’avenir, qui vise à renforcer la mobilisation du secteur privé en vue de la réalisation des objectifs de développement durable (ODD).Mme Beth Bechdol, Directrice générale adjointe et personne clé de l’équipe de direction centrale chargée de mener les consultations et les négociations sur la nouvelle Stratégie, explique pourquoi il est si important de mobiliser le secteur privé pour atteindre les ODD.

Japan is stepping up funding for FAO in three key areas, Vice-Minister for International Affairs at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) Makoto Osawa told Director-General QU Dongyu, as the two officials met virtually today. Osawa went on to list the strengthening of agricultural supply chains in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic; the promotion of traditional healthy diets; and statistical capacity.

In collaboration with the Belgian Development Cooperation, FAO’s Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equity Division held the first in a series of five webinars, “Community Engagement for Empowerment: Key for People-Centered Rural Transformation?” Participants looked at the achievements, potential and challenges of community engagement for empowerment in development and humanitarian interventions and strategies.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Republic of Ireland signed a new Framework Agreement today, consolidating a longstanding collaboration between the two parties in the area of development cooperation.

10/02/2021 The Chinese Lunar New Year is approaching, and this is also the time for Chinese families to reunite. However, the experts dispatched by the FAO-China South-South Cooperation (SSC) Programme Madagascar Project are still holding fast to their position in a foreign country.  Today, let us have a look at their stories. FAO-China South-South SSC Programme Madagascar Project Madagascar, an island country in the southwest of the Indian Ocean, faces the coast of the African continent across the Mozambique Channel. It is a country listed as one of the least developed countries in the world, with its food security situation being particularly worrisome...