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The United Nations and the Government of Italy announced today that the Pre-Summit gathering for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit will be in Rome, Italy from July 19 to July 21, 2021.

On Thursday, 11 March 2021, the second of five webinar series on “Community Engagement Days” took place. The event was organized by the Dimitra Clubs Team of the Rural Institutions, Services and Empowerment (RISE) team within FAO’s Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equity

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) QU Dongyu and Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue TD, attended a virtual ceremony today to celebrate the last six years of collaboration between FAO and Ireland.

On Thursday, 18 February 2021 the first of a series of five webinars called “Community Engagement Days” was successfully launched. Organized by the Rural Institutions, Services and Empowerment (RISE) team of the Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equity Division of FAO, in collaboration with the government of Belgium and thanks

Despite being a year of unprecedented slowdown of activities, 2020 witnessed a time of growth in financial volume and renewed commitment to FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM), the principal pooled funding mechanism for partners willing to contribute flexible, less-earmarked voluntary resources to the Organization. In 2020, FMM contributions during the