06/03/2017 Catacamas, Olancho (Honduras) - La población infantil de cinco comunidades PECH, del departamento de Olancho, tendrá acceso a una alimentación oportuna y adecuada para satisfacer sus requerimientos nutricionales, informó la Representante de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (FAO) en Honduras, María Julia Cárdenas Barrios. La FAO en coordinación con el Gobierno de Honduras, ejecuta acciones para implementar el modelo de escuelas sostenibles a través del Proyecto de Fortalecimiento del Programa de Alimentación Escolar en el marco de la Iniciativa América Latina Sin Hambre 2025, que cuenta con el apoyo financiero del Gobierno de la República Federativa del Brasil. Cárdenas Barrios, explicó...

28/02/2017 Elaborar políticas diferenciadas de acceso a créditos, construir marcos legales adecuados para cada tipo de agricultura familiar y promover alianzas estratégicas para la producción, transformación y comercialización de los productos de la agricultura familiar son sólo algunos de los principales acuerdos que surgieron del intercambio de experiencias entre agricultores familiares y representantes de los ministerios de agricultura de los...

24 February 2017, Rome – China and FAO today agreed to strengthen further their joint efforts in South-South Cooperation, an increasingly popular initiative that is boosting technical capacity and is promoting the exchange of agriculture knowledge and techniques across a growing part of the developing world. Today’s agreements were announced at a bilateral meeting attended by senior representatives from FAO and China’s Ministry of Agriculture to review progress so far and to approve the work plan for the South-South Corporation Programme for 2017.  In...

15 February 2017, Côte d’Ivoire - From 10 to 14 February 2017, a FAO delegation, accompanied by representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, as well as officials from the National Office for Rice Development, undertook an oversight mission in Côte d'Ivoire, specifically at Grand-Lahou, Gagnoa and Yamoussoukro, to ensure the technical follow-up of the activities carried out under the South-South Cooperation (SSC) projects currently under way in the country. In 2016, two projects were initiated within the framework of SSC in Côte d'Ivoire, namely the Regional project on the Partnership for Sustainable Rice Systems Development in Sub-Saharan...

14 Febraury 2017, Namibia. The Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry to the Republic of Namibia, Hon John Mutorwa praised 15 Chinese experts seconded to Namibia to provide technical assistance for agricultural irrigation, a central veterinary laboratory and research station in a meeting regardingcompletion of the first phase, which started in April 2015 and ends next 30 April. Mutorwa said the group did an excellent job and he was satisfied with their work. “The experts and their local counterparts have been implementing a project with well-defined objectives and outcomes covering rice and horticulture as well as veterinary policies and standards.” the...