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Rome - Over the past months, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations continued to support the objectives of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF), signing three new letters of agreement (LoA) with the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Development in Agriculture (RUFORUM) and the Sultan Qaboos University (SQU). These new agreements will support knowledge exchange and capacity development activities, including two studies on family farming.  More than 90 percent of the world’s 600 million farms are run by an individual or a family and rely primarily...

12 December, Madrid - Innovative partnerships, investment and technical exchange through South-South and Triangular Cooperation are critical for countries especially in the global South to address climate change and achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.  

n December 10 2019, Norway through the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) officially signed an agreement to become a contributing member of FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM). The agreement, which was signed by FAO Assistant Director-General Roberto Ridolfi and Norad Director Mette Møglestue, commits to support of NOK 90 million (approximately USD 10 million) for FMM programs and sub-programmes over the next three years. It emphasizes Norway’s support for strengthening FMM’s programmatic focus on resilient and sustainable food systems, and climate change and agriculture.

San Pedro del Paraná, Paraguay, 13 de diciembre de 2019 – Cerca de 300 agricultores y agricultoras familiares representantes de organizaciones campesinas y asentamientos de Paraguay participaron de un Día de Campo, en el Departamento de Itapuá, para conocer de más acerca los beneficios de los sistemas de producción conservacionistas, manejo de suelo degradado, cultivos alimentarios como maíz, yuca y sésamo asociados al cultivo de algodón. La actividad también contó con la asistencia de 50 técnicos y técnicas de la extensión rural paraguaya.

Brussels - Members of the European Parliamentary Alliance against Hunger and Malnutrition gathered for the first time since the European Parliament elections at the end of May. The constituent meeting of the Alliance, which took place on 10 December, served as the official kick-off for the work of the Alliance, by setting its strategic direction for the new legislature. During the meeting, Parliamentarians were briefed by FAO Assistant Director-General Máximo Torero, FAO Brussels Director Rodrigo de Lapuerta, and EU Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO) Head of Unit, Leonard Mizzi, on the importance of agricultural and rural development, as...