Noticias

23 July 2020 - The FAO-China South-South-Cooperation (SSC) Programme jointly with the FAO Global Action for Fall Armyworm (FAW) control and in close collaboration with FAO’s Office of Emergency and Resilience (OER) hosted last week the Programme’s first online joint formulation technical meeting. In view of the challenges posed by the covid-19 pandemic, the Programme is adapting and innovating its work modalities, guided by its three core values: inspiration, inclusion, and innovation. Representatives of four (4) host countries, namely, China, Ghana, Kenya, and Myanmar, and the Southern partner, China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA),...

With the aim to build capacities for research and development to achieve food security and nutrition, the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 15 July, 2020 to promote and disseminate best practices and innovations on sustainable agriculture, food safety and healthy diets.  Founded in 1976 by Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, UAEU is a public institution delivering undergraduate and graduate programmes at very high levels with the objective to promote knowledge creation, dissemination and...

La FAO dio a conocer hoy su nuevo Programa integral de respuesta y recuperación de la COVID-19, destinado a prevenir una emergencia alimentaria mundial durante la pandemia de la enfermedad por coronavirus (COVID-19) y después de ella, mientras trabaja en una intervención de desarrollo a medio y largo plazo en relación con la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición.

Rome/Florence – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and University of Florence (UNIFI) have agreed to partner in order to strengthen knowledge and expertise exchanges, capacity development and joint research in the areas of food security and nutrition, rural poverty reduction and sustainable agri-food systems.UNIFI is one of the largest public higher education and research institutions in Italy. The university conducts research and offers degrees in a number of areas that are closely aligned to FAO’s mandate, such as management of natural resources, tropical rural development, development economics and local systems, traditional landscapes and...

Las semanas siguientes al brote de la nueva enfermedad por coronavirus han estado repletas de graves desafíos e incertidumbre. A medida que los efectos del cierre de fronteras y las restricciones de movimientos son más visibles en algunos países y disminuyen lentamente en otros, hay que llamar la atención sobre un componente vital para la salud mundial también en peligro de crisis: los sistemas alimentarios. Como ha dicho el Economista Jefe de la Organización para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), Máximo Torero, “Estamos totalmente de acuerdo con los gobiernos...