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11 Apr 2022
Legal frameworks are essential to anchor policy efforts for family farming into inclusive and sustainable agri-food systems.
The United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 (UNDFF) underscores the importance of family farming for achieving food security and adequate nutrition through inclusive and sustainable agri-food systems. Family farming brings benefits to rural people and territories, favouring economic and physical access to adequate food for all as well as safeguarding biodiversity and the environment. Moreover, it is paramount to coherently strengthen legislative and institutional frameworks across all the relevant policy areas of family farming to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. 
11 Apr 2022
The institutions have a long history of sharing knowledge and harnessing science and innovation for agrifood systems transformation
Wageningen, Netherlands/Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today formally launched a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Wageningen University and Research (WUR) in the Netherlands, aimed at developing and sharing knowledge and harnessing science, technologies and innovation for transforming agrifood systems.
Collaborating since the 1970s, the two institutions have strengthened the partnership through development of a new MoU, concluded in December 2021.
06 Apr 2022
Two virtual capacity-building training courses on hybrid rice and hybrid foxtail millet were successfully organized by the South-South and Triangular Cooperation Division (PST) from 7-28 March 2022, in collaboration with two Chinese specialized institutions. The trainings brought together about 40 participants from six African countries namely the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Uganda, Namibia and Nigeria.
The first capacity-building training course on hybrid rice was organized in collaboration with the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center (HHRRC) of China from 7 to 16 March 2022. The training aimed at enhancing the capacity of government officials, researchers and rice experts from the six African...
04 Apr 2022
Como parte de su gira por la Argentina, el Director General de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), QU Dongyu, se reunió con el presidente de la Honorable Cámara de Diputados de la Nación (HCDN), Sergio Massa, con el fin de dialogar sobre políticas locales y globales orientadas a garantizar la seguridad alimentaria.
En el encuentro que se produjo en el Salón de Honor del Congreso argentino, se destacó la aprobación reciente de leyes alineadas con los objetivos de la Organización y vinculadas con el desarrollo del sector agroindustrial, el uso de las nuevas...
04 Apr 2022
In Discussion with Matthew Camilleri on FAO’s partnership with the World Maritime University
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Maritime University (WMU), a United Nations General Assembly recognized global centre of excellence on maritime and ocean...