30 May 2012, Rome - Sustainable development cannot be realized unless hunger and malnutrition are eradicated, FAO said in a policy document prepared for the Rio+20 Summit to be held in June in Rio de Janeiro.

"We cannot call development sustainable while this situation persists, while nearly one out of every seven men, women and children are left behind, victims of undernourishment," [...]

29 May 2012, Rome - The cooperative model offers unique solutions to "free people from hunger and poverty in a globalized world in which crises, including climate change, touch everyone", President of Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla said today in a speech at FAO.

Using the example of her country, the President stressed that cooperatives can make a major contribution to sustainable development and the competitiveness [...]

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 [...]