28 de mayo, Roma. El Director General de la FAO, José Graziano da Silva, recibió esta mañana la visita de una representación del Comité italiano de Apoyo al MST y de la Asociación Amig@s MST-Italia en la sede de la Organización en Roma.

Los simpatizantes del movimiento en Italia entregaron al Director General una fotografía de su padre, José Gomes da Silva, como homenaje por la labor de [...]

24 May 2012, Brussels, Nyon, Rome - On a visit to drought-stricken Chad, Spanish football star Raúl González added his voice to urgent calls for funding to prevent a full-blown food and nutrition crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa, where over 17 million people are at risk of hunger and more than one million children under five face acute malnutrition.

A combination of drought, chronic poverty, [...]

23 May 2012, Tokyo/Rome - FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva met today with Mr. Tanimoto, Governor of Ishikawa prefecture of Japan, at FAO Headquarters in Rome. During the visit, Director-General Graziano da Silva welcomed the proposal by Governor Tanimoto to host the 2013 Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) International Forum at the Ishikawa prefecture in Japan.

GIAHS is an international partnership initiative that identifies and recognizes [...]

21 May 2012, Rome - FAO and Brazil's Serviço Social da Indústria (Industrial Social Services, SESI) have signed a new partnership agreement that will seek to adapt a successful Brazilian food educational program to other countries of Latin America and the Caribbean as well as to Africa, with an eye to improving household nutrition and reducing food waste.

Established in 2008, SESI's Programa Cozinha Brasil (Brazilian [...]

21 May 2012, Rome - FAO and Brazil's Serviço Social da Indústria (Industrial Social Services, SESI) have signed a new partnership agreement that will seek to adapt a successful Brazilian food educational program to other countries of Latin America and the Caribbean as well as to Africa, with an eye to improving household nutrition and reducing food waste.

Established in 2008, SESI's Programa Cozinha Brasil (Brazilian Kitchen Program) teaches people [...]

"Agriculture is a powerful tool for reducing poverty and hunger. Events of recent years - such as food price increases, droughts, growing climate change impacts and other emergencies - have put agriculture high on the international agenda. We should be clear that agriculture is the solution. Economic growth generated by agriculture is more than twice as effective in reducing poverty as growth in other sectors. Agricultural development is also [...]

18 May 2012, Rome ­-  Libya and FAO have commited themselves to work together to develop the country’s agricultural sector and improve food security, signing a cooperation agreement at FAO headquarters.    

Under the agreement, Libya will provide $71 million in funding needed to develop different areas, such as plant and animal health and production, pesticide management, seed development, natural resource management, capacity building and institutional strengthening.
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18 May 2012, Rome - FAO's 31st Regional Conference for the Near East today called for a 50 percent reduction of food losses and food waste in the region in order to improve regional food security.

Concluding a week-long session here, the Conference called on FAO to assist its Member Countries in drawing up a plan to halve the amount food they currently lose or waste in the [...]

17 May 2012, Rome - FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva today proposed the creation of a Near Eastern Trust Fund to advance food security in the region.

Addressing the FAO Regional Conference for the Near East, Graziano da Silva noted that FAO, at the request African Member Countries, was helping draw up an African Food Security Trust Fund, in which civil society and the private sector [...]

17 May, 2012, Rome - The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is to allocate $66.7 million to implement FAO's technical assistance projects in the country, according to an agreement signed today at FAO Headquarters during the FAO Regional Conference for the Near East.

Under the five-year programme from 2012 to 2016, FAO shall provide technical assistance and expertise for 17 specific projects in Saudi Arabia covering several areas. [...]