Noticias

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is launching today the first of a “Series of Global Webinars: Towards Resilient Family Farming - Solutions from producer organizations”.The virtual meeting is an opportunity to learn about the main impacts of COVID-19 on regional producer organizations and family farms, and to exchange good practices, and solutions to the health crisis caused by COVID-19. Regional organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean are sharing experiences, particularly on financing and savings mechanisms that have...

El 20 de mayo de 2020, la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) aumentó significativamente la cooperación con los países del Consejo de Cooperación del Golfo al firmar virtualmente dos acuerdos de asociación innovadores con el Ministerio de Estado sobre Seguridad Alimentaria de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos (EAU) para proyectos de transformación del sector agrícola para alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) y mejorar el sistema de seguridad alimentaria en los EAU. Los proyectos, "Transformar la alimentación y la agricultura para alcanzar los ODS y mejorar la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición" (con...

The Brazil Africa Institute (IBRAF) will hold, next Friday, May 29, the webinar “Youth Empowerment and the Promotion of Rural Communities Sustainability”. The dialogue will focus on topics such as ensuring access to tools for young people to lead the transformation of the region, and practices to promote sustainability in rural communities, especially the most vulnerable. The panel will be attended by representatives of the African Union; the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); and the World Food Programme (WFP). The COVID-19 pandemic made it clear to the world that many practices, especially regarding the models of food...

Have you ever thought that changes in the way your tea is produced could be beneficial to the changing climate? A new FAO project in Kenya is about to do just that by developing the production of potentially carbon neutral tea. It's the first FAO project within framework of South-South and Triangular Cooperation to address both climate change mitigation and adaptation in a food value chain.

The pandemic will end, the health crisis will ease, but if we don’t protect the livelihoods of millions of people today and the food value chains, we will have to rebuild them tomorrow – at much greater cost, warned FAO Director-General QU Dongyu today at a Congressional Webinar Briefing. The event - The Coming Crisis: Preventing a Hunger Catastrophe amid COVID-19 - was co-hosted by FAO North America and the Alliance to End Hunger with the House and Senate Hunger Caucuses, and highlighted the key findings of the recently released 2020 Global Report on Food Crises. COVID-19 - an...