FAO Regional Office for Africa
Family Farming is the focus of World Food Day 2014 The 2014 World Food Day theme - Family Farming: “Feeding the world, caring for the earth” - has been chosen to raise the profile of family farming and smallholder farmers. It focuses world attention on the significant role of family farming...
The UN Women Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa, FAO, IFAD, WFP, IIRR, and the UN Women’s Knowledge Gateway for Women’s Economic Empowerment are organizing a sharefair on “Rural women’s technologies to improve food security, nutrition and productive family farming”. The Sharefair 2014 will be held in in Nairobi,...
OCHA Regional Office for West & Central Africa in Dakar has launched a fully dedicated Regional Ebola Crisis web page on the Humanitarian Response platform https://wca.humanitarianresponse.info/fr/emergencies/virus-ebola
From 25 August 2014, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) will host a series of regional virtual consultations open to development professionals, community media practitioners, rural development agencies and the private sector alike on  "Towards Concerted Action on Communication, Community Media...
The OECD and FAO will present the key findings of their annual report on Friday, 11 July 2014. The publication coincides with a downward movement in global agricultural prices, reflecting optimistic supply prospects of certain commodities such as cereals and vegetable oils. The trend is expected to continue further in...