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The fight against hunger is at an "inflection point" today and supporting family farmers is critical to its success, FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva told British lawmakers late Monday."The main cause of hunger nowadays is not the lack of food, but the lack of access to it," he said in an address to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development. It's a paradox that family farmers - those who produce most of the world's food -  are the most at risk of food insecurity. Graziano da Silva called for greater awareness and support of the worsening...

La FAO y el CIRAD rinden homenaje a su lograda colaboración en pie desde hace cuatro años a través de la publicación titulada La asociación FAO – CIRAD – un destaque. Esta publicación digital subraya los principios, la visión y los objetivos de la asociación que ha promulgado la colaboración exitosa en los siguientes ámbitos: agroecología, sanidad animal, agricultura familiar y cambio climático.  Los socios miran con entusiasmo hacia la próxima fase de la asociación en la cual se hará hincapié para aportar un mayor impacto a nivel nacional, regional y mundial en favorecimiento del...

28 November 2017 - Rome/Antalya. At the Global South-South Development Expo in Antalya (Turkey), the Rome-based Agencies (RBAs) presented todaya joint roadmap which aims to strengthen the three agencies’ collective efforts to facilitate South-South and Triangular Cooperation in the context of achieving progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 2, zero hunger, by 2030. “Considering our respective mandates, comparative advantages and distinctive strengths, all centered around the realm of food security and...

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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and FAO have announced a three-year Sustainable Agriculture for Economic Resiliency  project in South Sudan, to address widespread food and nutrition deficiencies and help communities become increasingly resilient to shocks including conflict and economic and environment-related shocks. More than three years of conflict have made South Sudan one of the world’s most food-insecure countries, with more than half the population facing life-threatening hunger. This project will target households experiencing stress and crisis levels of food insecurity, to prevent them from falling into worse levels of food insecurity—emergency and famine. The project will focus on...