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FAO Director-General to visit 7 countries and to attend 3 multilateral conferences in the next seven weeks
18 July 2014
18 July 2014
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva will be away from Rome during the next few weeks. During this period he will be involved in a range of activities taking place away from FAO Headquarters.
Initially,...
President of Azerbaijan visits FAO
15 July 2014
15 July 2014
The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, met today with FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva at FAO headquarters in Rome.
With agriculture growing at a 6 percent in the first half of 2014, President Aliyev described...
The Thomson Reuters Foundation, the corporate charity of the world’s biggest news and information providers, is teaming up with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to improve global information and awareness on hunger and food-related issues including...
MERCOSUR Government representatives praise FAO’s support of family farming and hunger eradication efforts
03 July 2014
03 July 2014
Santiago, Chile- The declaration of the XXI Specialized Meeting on Family Farming of MERCOSUR (REAF, in Spanish) held last week in Argentina, acknowledged the advances promoted by FAO’s Director General, José Graziano da Silva.
The Specialized Meeting on Family Farming, REAF,...
FAO and China have signed a two-year tripartite cooperation agreement worth about N$10.5 million (US$1.5 million) that will boost the efforts of local farmers in Namibia. The agreement, which is intended to make training and technical support available to the...