Noticias

Washington DC/Roma - La presidenta y directora general del Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial (FMAM), Naoko Ishii, aprobó hoy un proyecto coordinado por la FAO para mejorar el estado y la sostenibilidad de las pesquerías de atún en todo el mundo, reduciendo las capturas ilegales y apoyando los ecosistemas marinos y las especies relacionadas. El FMAM, una institución internacional que engloba a 183 países para hacer frente a los problemas medioambientales globales y apoyar el desarrollo sostenible, aprobó la financiación de la fase de ejecución del proyecto que reúne a múltiples socios y está coordinado por la FAO, cuyo objetivo es...

Dakar, Senegal - FAO Director-General met with representatives of the Senegalese private sector and emphasized the key role that they can play in reinforcing food security and in developing sustainable agriculture. Companies present discussed their activities ad issues encountered in the areas of  distribution of agricultural inputs, production and processing of local commodities including cereals, fruits. The representatives of the Senegalese Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture, and the national Employer Federation shared their global vision of how the agricultural sector could be more efficient. They proposed to develop an integrated approach from a "modern production" to locally processed and purchased food products, including...

Rome - A seminar titled “The efficiency and inclusiveness of Public Private Partnerships as a tool in the fight against hunger” was held at FAO headquarters today. The Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department (AG) and the Office of Partnerships, Advocacy and Capacity Development (OPC) jointly held the seminar. The central theme discussed over the two-hour seminar concerned public private partnerships (PPP) as a tool in the fight against hunger. From this theme, two key questions emerged: how PPPs can be an efficient tool in eradicating hunger, and how PPPs be inclusive of local agribusiness and smallholder farmers.  Representatives from FAO, IFAD and the Standards...

“With their wealth of ancestral knowledge”, indigenous and tribal peoples make for “key partners in the fight against hunger, malnutrition, and food insecurity”, remarked FAO’s Sharon Brennen-Haylock, as the General Assembly’s Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Affairs (“3rd”) Committee opened discussions in New York on the rights of indigenous peoples. The pursuit of traditional hunting and pastoral lifestyles, noted FAO’s Liaison Director to the United Nations, helps “maintain high levels of biological diversity, including invaluable genetic resources for food and agriculture”. Such practices and know-how, she continued, “create an important pillar of the food security of present and future generations worldwide”. Of the...

El apoyo a la agricultura familiar a través de ayudas a la producción y mejora en el acceso a los mercados es fundamental en la lucha contra el hambre. Con esta idea como base, la Organización de Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y la cadena italiana Eataly han firmado hoy un Memorando de Entendimiento que establece el marco para acciones conjuntas en el contexto del Año Internacional de la Agricultura Familiar que se celebrará en 2014. El acuerdo firmado por el Director General de la FAO, José Graziano da Silva, y Nicola Farinetti, CEO de Eataly, establece...

El apoyo a la agricultura familiar a través de ayudas a la producción y mejora en el acceso a los mercados es fundamental en la lucha contra el hambre. Con esta idea como base, la Organización de Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y la cadena italiana Eataly han firmado hoy un Memorando de Entendimiento que establece el marco para acciones conjuntas en el contexto del Año Internacional de la Agricultura Familiar que se celebrará en 2014. El acuerdo firmado por el Director General de la FAO, José Graziano da Silva, y Nicola Farinetti, CEO de Eataly, establece...

La FAO ha firmado una nuevo acuerdo de asociación con la Federación Internacional de Sociedades de la Cruz Roja y  de la Media Luna Roja (IFRC, por sus siglas en inglés), la red humanitaria más grande del mundo, para ayudar a mejorar la seguridad alimentaria y fortalecer la resiliencia de las comunidades vulnerables. La FAO y la IFRC han acordado que la FAO proporcione orientación técnica para complementar la extensa red de la Federación Internacional de 13 millones de voluntarios -que prestan servicio a su vez a unos 150 millones de personas- para ayudar a los hogares pobres a hacer...

FAO and the International Co-operatives Alliance (ICA)begin a new collaboration with the shared conviction that agricultural and food co-operatives must be central to any agricultural and rural development strategy. A Memorandum of Understanding that underlines this idea was signed today at FAO Headquarters by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and ICA President Pauline Green.“Co-operatives are back to FAO’s agenda. Bringing co-operatives back to the global agenda is also a priority request I receive from all African countries”, said FAO Director-General Graziano da Silva. “I believe that we did a really good job joining efforts during...

FAO and the International Co-operatives Alliance (ICA)begin a new collaboration with the shared conviction that agricultural and food co-operatives must be central to any agricultural and rural development strategy. A Memorandum of Understanding that underlines this idea was signed today at FAO Headquarters by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and ICA President Pauline Green.

Many of the companies that are here today are present in many countries. This is important because what you do locally against hunger can quickly become global", said FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva in a private sector partnerships meeting held today. At the meeting, Graziano da Silva announced that FAO has set up a multi-donor trust fund to allow private sector companies to financially contribute to the organization's work and support FAO projects and programmes. "I welcome and encourage you to join this partnership and kick start this newly established fund",he said. FAO Director-General explained that FAO...