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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and FAO have announced a three-year Sustainable Agriculture for Economic Resiliency  project in South Sudan, to address widespread food and nutrition deficiencies and help communities become increasingly resilient to shocks including conflict and economic and environment-related shocks. More than three years of conflict have made South Sudan one of the world’s most food-insecure countries, with more than half the population facing life-threatening hunger. This project will target households experiencing stress and crisis levels of food insecurity, to prevent them from falling into worse levels of food insecurity—emergency and famine. The project will focus on...

Finding data on where resource partners are investing and identifying common priorities has now become much easier, with the help of a new online tool developed by FAO. The tool has gone live on Thursday, November 23 at 11am CST. Check out www.fao.org/aid-monitor. To explain more about how AIDmonitor works, we sat down with Vanja Bozic from TCR’s market intelligence team to find out more. Q: What is AIDmonitor? A: AIDmonitor is a new online data tool that makes it quick and easy to extract data on Official Development Assistance (ODA) flows, with a specific focus on agriculture, food security, nutrition and rural development activities. A...

Le Canada est l’un des principaux partenaires de la FAO dans la lutte contre la faim. En 2016, il était l'un des dix premiers contributeurs de l'organisation. L'aide du Canada s'est fortement concentrée sur trois domaines prioritaires: renforcer la sécurité alimentaire, stimuler une croissance économique durable et assurer l'avenir des enfants et des jeunes, champs d’activité qui sont bien alignés sur les objectifs stratégiques de la FAO. En janvier 2017, lors de la réunion des ministres de l’agriculture du G20 à Berlin, le Canada a réaffirmé sa volonté de soutenir pleinement la durabilité et de promouvoir l'innovation visant à renforcer...

The FAO Country Programming Framework for the Republic of Belarus was signed in a ceremony at the Ministry of Agriculture by Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus Alla Lomakina and FAO Regional Programme Leader for Europe and Central Asia Raimund Jehle. Read More

25 September 2017, Rome/Brussels - Stepping up their long and fruitful partnership, FAO and the European Commission (EC) held the strategic dialogue meeting and agreed on joint priorities and deliverables for 2018-2020. The decision to intensify joint efforts comes at an important moment in time with both partners sharpening their focus in the areas of food security, nutrition, resilience, sustainable agriculture, ocean governance, all within the context of working together towards the achievement of Agenda 2030 and the Paris Climate Change Agreement. Since the European Union became an FAO Member Organization, the partnership has been increasing in importance. Both FAO and...

Septembre 2017 - Le 21 septembre, le Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Forêts et de la Pêche (MAFF) du Japon et l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) ont conclu un accord qui contribuera à améliorer l'évaluation, le suivi et les rapports relatifs aux efforts mondiaux et nationaux en matière de boisement et de reboisement (A & R) et de conservation en vue d'accroître les stocks de carbone forestier. Le projet, financé par le MAFF pour un montant de 2 millions USD, s'étalera sur quatre ans. Cela permettra au Département des forêts de la FAO d'identifier, à l'échelle mondiale, les...

FAO and WFP co-hosted an event to present the findings of the report Breaking the impasse: Reducing protracted internal displacement as a collective outcome.