罗马/大马士革 -- 本周，"慢食"与联合国粮食及农业组织（粮农组织）组织叙利亚女性小农到意大利西北部游学。 两大组织联手加强叙利亚小规模女性粮食生产者的技能，是为了支持受危机影响的社区重获或增强生计，并重振该国农业部门。 七名叙利亚妇女将在皮埃蒙特和利古里亚地区的农民社区参观学习。这两个地区生产和营销品质优良且尊重传统的本地有机和手工食品。 这些妇女有望获得奶制品、蜂蜜、油类、谷物、面包和蔬菜等一系列产品的生产、营销和价值链领域的全面知识，并在回国后将这些知识传授给社区里的其他女性农民。她们还将被纳入"慢食"全球本地农民网络，以继续学习和分享知识与经验。

 Rome, 12 December - FAO and the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) joined forces to guarantee that future farmers, pastoralists and fishers can meaningfully contribute to decision making processes about food and agriculture. The 4-day training applying participative learning methods was successful in increasing young food producer’s knowledge on viable tools and governance mechanisms related to food and agriculture, and in opening up a space for the young IPC members to exchange experiences and engage in dialogue with FAO representatives, sharing ideas, concerns and proposals. As a result of the training, while recognizing the heterogeneous needs among rural youth, young...

A new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between FAO and URGENCI, an international network that supports community agriculture, is poised to deepen the UN agency’s collaboration with global civil society.  The agreement, to be signed on 30 October 2017 by FAO Deputy Director-General for Programmes Daniel Gustafson and Judith Hitchman, President of URGENCI, will formalize the partnership between the two organizations by joining their efforts to map and promote short food-supply chain initiatives in all world regions. By documenting existing practices, methods and good experiences on local and solidarity-based food distribution systems between consumers and producers, the...

Rome - FAO and Consumers International, a global federation of consumer rights groups, have agreed to intensify their collaboration to help end hunger. The agreement recognizes that consumers around the world can be a powerful force for change towards more sustainable and equitable food systems.Key areas of mutual interest for FAO and CI include the right to food, consumer protection, nutrition and food safety.The partnership aims to enhance Consumer International's access to FAO's wealth of knowledge and information while FAO can work more closely with the network of CI's member organizations who communicate with and advocate...

FAO and Caritas Roma have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to provide assistance to people facing food insecurity in the Italian capital. Thanks to the agreement signed today by Daniel Gustafson, FAO’s Deputy Director General (Operations), and Monsignor Enrico Feroci, Director of the Rome-based branch of Caritas, the UN agency will donate excess food and other basic products coming from its headquarters,in the Italian capital to the charity for distribution around Rome.. Every year, about one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption is either wasted or lost - an amount that...