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 Kitchen Program) teaches people [...]

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 - 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. [...]

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 [...]

11 мая 2012, Рим - Сегодня Комитетом по всемирной продовольственной безопасности (КВПБ) принято историческое решение об одобрении глобальных руководств, направленных на то, чтобы помочь правительствам защитить права людей, владеющих или пользующихся земельными, лесными и рыбными ресурсами. 

Новые Добровольные руководящие принципы по ответственному управлению и доступу к земельным, рыбным и лесным ресурсам в контексте национальной продовольственной безопасности содержат принципы и практики, на которые могут ссылаться правительства в законотворческой [...]

10 мая 2012, Мадрид - Генеральный директор Продовольственной и сельскохозяйственной организации Объединенных Наций (ФАО) Жозе Грациану да Силва предупредил сегодня о значительном дефиците финансирования на проведение мероприятий, запланированных ФАО в Сахеле и на Африканском Роге.

Выступая на международном экономическом форуме Foro Nueva Economía, проходящем в Мадриде, он сказал, что, несмотря на растущую конвергенцию различных видов мер с целью усиления продовольственной безопасности и ускорения развития, в настоящее время существует [...]

Madrid, 9 de mayo de 2012. - Su Majestad la Reina ha presidido hoy la ceremonia de entrega de la primera edición de los Premios FAO España que reconocen la labor de distintas personas, instituciones, empresas y medios de comunicación en la lucha contra el hambre.

El acto de entrega de los galardones ha tenido lugar en CaixaForum Madrid y ha contado con la presencia de José Graziano da Silva, Director [...]

30 April 2012, Brazzaville – The creation of an African-funded trust fund to support food security in the continent was discussed at FAO’s Regional Conference for Africa, held last week in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.

Complementing international resource mobilization, the Africa Trust Fund would raise resources in the continent to fight hunger and would also allow for the scaling up of successful activities to prevent and [...]

27 April 2012, Brazzaville - Republic of the Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso has made a “vibrant appeal” for Africa to show solidarity with countries in the African Sahel region and the Horn of Africa where  millions of people are currently facing a food crisis.

In a speech marking the opening of FAO's 27^th Regional Conference for Africa in Brazzaville yesterday, the President called for concrete efforts [...]