Noticias

23 de febrero de 2012, Roma - Mejorar los sistemas de información agrícola e impulsar el apoyo a los pequeños campesinos en la lucha contra el hambre figuraron entre las cuestiones clave tratadas en un encuentro celebrado hoy en la sede de la FAO entre Bill Gates, copresidente de la Fundación Bill & Melinda Gates, y el Director General de la FAO, José Graziano da Silva.El filántropo y magnate de la tecnología digital se reunió con el responsable del organismo especializado de la ONU y analizaron las formas de mejorar los sistemas de recolección de información de la FAO...

Manila/Nairobi - Healthy seas and coasts would pay healthy dividends in a green economy, according to a report released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Maritime Organization (IMO), United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), WorldFish Center and GRID-Arendal, that highlights the huge potential for economic growth and poverty eradication from well-managed marine sectors.The report, Green Economy in a Blue World, argues that the ecological health and economic productivity of marine and...

6 December 2011, Rome - In a growing trend towards cooperation among countries of the global South, developing countries are putting more financial and technical muscle behind initiatives to help each other improve food security, as evidenced by new agreements fostered by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) among some of its member countries...

Dushanbe, Tayikistán - Una espectacular disminución de la brucelosis, esa enfermedad grave que ataca tanto al ganado como a las personas, se está celebrando como la primera gran victoria de los servicios nacionales de sanidad animal recientemente privatizados en este país del Asia central.Los servicios del gobierno en esta república ex soviética se desintegraron en el decenio de 1990 durante una guerra civil y para 2004 la brucelosis infectaba el 8,5% de los grandes rebaños de ovejas y cabras del país. La producción de carne y de leche disminuyó y las personas contagiadas por el consumo de leche y...

Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in collaboration with Bioversity International, will be convening an International Scientific Symposium on "Biodiversity and Sustainable Diets" in the Green Room at FAO Headquarters in Rome, from 3 to 5 November 2010, as part of the World Food Day/World Food Week 2010 celebrations.  The purpose of the Symposium is to mainstream, as a common path, biodiversity and nutrition as central to sustainable development. It will address the impact of food consumption patterns on agriculture production, on the environment and on poverty alleviation. One of its major outcomes will be an agreed...