Noticias

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...

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...

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...

Santiago, Chile – March 31, 2022 - During a bilateral meeting at the FAO Regional Conference, in Quito, Ecuador, held on March 31, the head of the Brazilian delegation for the event, Ambassador Ruy Pereira, Director of the Brazilian Cooperation Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (ABC/MRE) delivered a commemorative publication for two 14 years of the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Program to the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Qu Dongyu. The document “Brazil and FAO, the path to cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean: A historical alliance for promoting sustainable development and food security in...

El documento entregado por la Agencia Brasileña de Cooperación (ABC) a la FAO celebra la trayectoria de 14 años de la alianza entre Brasil y la FAO en la región.

Civil society organizations (CSO) from Asia and the Pacific have concluded a two-day virtual meeting in preparation for their participation in a major multilateral conference aimed at charting a course for the region’s food security and agrifood systems transformation

The Director of FAO's Office of Sustainable Development Goals (OSG) Stefanos Fotiou addressed the European Parliament Committee on Development (DEVE) and Members of the European Economic and Social Committee on the follow-up to the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS). Fotiou briefed them on the Coordination Hub created to maintain the momentum of the Summit, and its first actions. At the European Parliament, Fotiou was joined by Ambassador and Chairperson of...

The past four years marked a time of growth in commitments and contributions to FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM), the main pooled funding instrument for flexible and less-earmarked voluntary resources in the Organization.