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Rome Italy Building on a common vision for a sustainable and prosperous world, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Luiss Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (Luiss) have embarked on a new partnership through the signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance food and nutrition security, sustainability, inclusiveness, and resilience of agrifood systems as laid out in FAO’s Strategic Framework for a better world where no one is left behind. The new partnership builds from FAO’s and Luiss’ history of cooperation to increase institutional and human capacities of new and mid-level food security professionals....

The United Nations General Assembly declared 2022 as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA).  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is the lead agency for celebrating the year in collaboration with other relevant organizations and stakeholders.  IYAFA 2022 has provided a unique opportunity to highlight the potential and diversity of small-scale artisanal fisheries and aquaculture, and underline the unique benefits of engaging in partnerships and cooperation with fishers, fishfarmers and fishworkers.  IYAFA 2022 has engaged a wide range of actors, including civil society organizations, in its many activities.  One such organization is the...

On 16 June 2022, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and of the Nature Conservancy (TNC) formalized their partnership through the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed by QU Dongyu, Director General, FAO and Jennifer Morris, CEO, TNC.   FAO and TNC have a long-standing collaboration, having worked jointly on a number of projects and co-developed a series of policy...

Rome/Kampala - Uganda is contributing nearly $10 million to the latest phase of a South-South Cooperation project focused on crop and animal production with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Chinese government after the first two phases yielded dramatic results, including a quadrupling of rice production per hectare. In one of the most significant contributions of its kind from a beneficiary country under the initiative, the Ugandan government is putting in $9 623 703 through a Unilateral Trust Fund (UTF). This comes in addition to $2 389 138 contributed by China to Phase III of...

The European Parliamentary Alliance against Hunger and Malnutrition invited an FAO delegation, headed by Chief Scientist Ismahane Elouafi to present the Organization’s recently adopted Strategy for Science and Innovation at the European Parliament. The Alliance, whose Secretariat is hosted by the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels, organized this event in collaboration with the EU40, the 

Siena, Italy - QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today underlined the importance of innovative partnerships, especially with academic institutions, in helping to promote global food security, as he addressed a Graduation Day ceremony at the University of Siena.“Fostering innovative partnerships for a food secure world is a top priority for the United Nations,...

17 June 2022, Kampala – Entrepreneurship plays a pivotal role in innovation, new agribusiness and generation of capital, but few African countries have policies, strategies or dedicated incubation support programmes. Ways to build up Africa’s capacities in agribusiness incubators and accelerators to find the continent’s next agribusiness success stories was the focus of a 5-day workshop in Kampala this week.

It’s that time of year again! FAO’s Dryland Forestry and South-South and Triangular Cooperation teams have joined together with UNCCD in honour of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. This year, the day focused on an important topic: ‘Rising up from drought together’.  Droughts are among the greatest threats to sustainable development affecting both developing and developed countries, and this is especially true for dryland communities: droughts only exacerbate the land degradation already taking place in many dryland areas. Women are disproportionately affected by the negative impacts linked to this, but also hold the solutions.

08/06/2022 The same sentiment was reflected in the consensus of the delegates to the National Policy Workshop organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of the Republic of Korea through the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) from 6 to 7 June. At the workshop, which was held virtually, FAO, MAFRA, and key stakeholders in the Philippines discussed ways to strengthen the Philippines’ rice value chains through FAO’s “Capacity Development and Experience sharing for Rice Value Chains through South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC)” project. The workshop also builds upon the Philippine Rice...

Roma, Italia, 06 de junio 2022 – La FAO, en nombre del Tratado Internacional, y DivSeek International han firmado un acuerdo de colaboración destinado a mejorar la interoperabilidad de los sistemas de información relativos al germoplasma de las plantas de cultivo en todo el mundo. "Esperamos trabajar con DivSeek para seguir mejorando el intercambio mundial de información sobre germoplasma y promover la...