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The Division for Emergencies and Resilience, the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels, and the Kingdom of Belgium co-organized a briefing on the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation (SFERA). As the first and largest supporter of the fund, Belgium provides FAO with the financial means and flexibility to react promptly when disasters strike and to take early action in response to early signs of impending crises, reducing the time between funding decisions and response on the ground.

The United Nations and the Government of Italy announced today that the Pre-Summit gathering for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit will be in Rome, Italy from July 19 to July 21, 2021.

16 March 2021 - The “Capacity-building Workshop on Freshwater Aquaculture Value Chain Development and Food Security through South-South Cooperation” was officially launched today under the framework of the FAO-China South-South Cooperation (SSC) Programme.  This virtual workshop, which will run from March to April 2021, aims at improving the capacity of participants to respond to the global challenges facing the aquaculture sector, and exchange knowledge in building resilient value chains.  The virtual capacity development workshop is designed to support local fish-farmers, producers, policymakers and other stakeholders in resilient building of freshwater aquaculture value chains. In particular, this collaborative international workshop will discuss emerging vulnerabilities...

On Thursday, 11 March 2021, the second of five webinar series on “Community Engagement Days” took place. The event was organized by the Dimitra Clubs Team of the Rural Institutions, Services and Empowerment (RISE) team within FAO’s Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equity

15 March 2021, Rome – FAO Director-General QU Dongyu today participated in the chairpersonship handover ceremony of the G77 & China - Rome Chapter and praised the Group’s important contribution to FAO’s work and development.

The importance of addressing youth issues in the Philippines The Philippines is an agricultural country with a land area of 30 million hectares, 47% of which is agricultural land. The Agriculture sector in the Philippines contributes about 20 percent to Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, in the past decades, the Agriculture sector encountered many challenges, particularly the ageing population of farmers in the country. The Department of Agriculture of the Philippines, in an Official Statement(1) has pointed out the declining interest in farming resulting to an aging labor force in the agriculture sector, which may lead to the deterioration of the...

12 марта 2021 года, Кигали/Рим - Продовольственная и сельскохозяйственная организация Объединенных Наций (ФАО) заключила в Руанде соглашение с компанией JR Farms Limited о содействии вовлечению молодежи в сельскохозяйственную деятельность и обеспечению достойной занятости.   Компания JR Farms - руандийское сельскохозяйственное предприятие, работающее в Руанде, Нигерии и Замбии и занимающееся переработкой и розничной торговлей пищевыми продуктами, а также торговлей сельскохозяйственными сырьевыми товарами и консультированием. Основными ее задачами являются обеспечение продовольственной безопасности, ликвидация голода в Африке и создание достойных рабочих мест для африканских женщин и молодежи. ФАО и JR Farms объединяют свои усилия, для того чтобы содействовать созданию возглавляемых молодыми предпринимателями сельхозпредприятий, предоставляя ряду таких предприятий,...

Cегодня Генеральный директор Продовольственной и сельскохозяйственной организации Объединенных Наций (ФАО) Цюй Дунъюй и министр сельского хозяйства, продовольствия и морского хозяйства Ирландии, депутат парламента Ирландии Чарли Макконалог приняли участие в виртуальной церемонии, посвященной шестой годовщине сотрудничества между ФАО и Ирландией.

On Thursday, 18 February 2021 the first of a series of five webinars called “Community Engagement Days” was successfully launched. Organized by the Rural Institutions, Services and Empowerment (RISE) team of the Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equity Division of FAO, in collaboration with the government of Belgium and thanks

Nearly one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, parliamentarians gathered for the first in a series of virtual dialogues on food security and nutrition in the time of COVID-19. The dialogues, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and supported by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), offer a forum for parliamentarians to exchange experiences and best practices in mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 on food security, in both the containment and recovery phases of the pandemic.The first dialogue in the series brought together parliamentarians from Central America and South America to...