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The Rabobank Foundation and FAO will share knowledge, innovation and financial resources in Africa in a broad strategy to make a difference in the lives of small-holder farmers and the rural poor.An agreement signed at FAO headquarters, involving our FAO decentralized offices, sets out how the organizations will work together on development projects in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. The projects will improve the income of small-holder farmers through support to small rural businesses, as well as through the identification of productive, competitive and sustainable agri-businesses along the whole value chain. Director-General José Graziano da Silva said...

Grameen Foundation and FAO will work closely together to enhance smallholder access to knowledge and technologies for sustainable production and food security through the use of mobile agriculture supported services. The two organizations signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today in Rome also aimed at improving farming innovation exchange, strengthening smallholder households to gain better access to agricultural and rural financial services and competitive value chains. Both organizations agreed that this is a great step forward in their efforts to improve food security. During his visit to FAO headquarters, Alex Counts, Chief Executive Officer and President of Grameen Foundation, highlighted...

Rome - Grameen Foundation and FAO will work closely to enhance small-holder farmer access to knowledge and technologies for sustainable production and food security through the use of mobile agriculture supported services. The two organizations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) also aimed at improving farming innovation exchange, strengthening small-holder households to gain better access to agricultural and rural financial services and competitive value chains. Both organizations agreed that this is a great step forward in their efforts to improve food security. During his visit to FAO headquarters, Alex Counts, Chief Executive Officer and President of Grameen Foundation,...

Rome –The President and CEO of Grameen Foundation USA, Mr. Alex Counts, visited FAO headquarters today and gave a seminar for FAO staff titled “Grameen Model Towards Achieving Food Security,” which marked the beginning of the FAO Private Sector Seminar Series. The seminar took place after FAO and Grameen Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding, which includes goals to increase farming innovation exchange, strengthen smallholders’ access to agricultural and financial services, and increase rural access to competitive value chains.  Mr. Counts first witnessed extreme poverty in 1988 when he was a Fulbright Scholar working with Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. He returned to...

The non-governmental organization Deutsche Welthungerhilfe  and FAO will work more closely in their fight against hunger and poverty. The organizations signed an agreement on Monday in Rome, to promote the progressive realization of the right to food and improvements of the governance of land tenure for the benefit of all, with an emphasis on vulnerable and marginalized people. “Only if we work together will we be able to successfully eradicate hunger and poverty,” said FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva. “Cooperation with civil society groups like Welthungerhilfe is crucial to make the right to adequate and healthy food a reality.”...

Durante su visita reciente a Latinoamérica, Jose Graziano da Silva firmó un Memorando de Entendimiento con la Fundação Banco do Brasil (FBB). Esta nueva asociación utiliza el conocimiento y las habilidades de cada organización, resultando en un enfoque innovador para acabar con el hambre. Fundação Banco do Brasil tiene un enfoque hacia el desarrollo que utiliza Tecnologias Sociais (Tecnologías Sociales) para el desarrollo. Han certificado 504 de estas, las cuales están disponibles en su página web como un Banco de Tecnologías Sociais (BTS). La asociación de abordará de la siguiente manera: FBB...

La FAO y el PMA llevan tiempo asociados para promover la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional de las comunidades vulnerables. El Programa Compra a los africanos para África (en inglés Purchase from Africans for Africa o PAA,) es un ejemplo reciente de cómo las organizaciones pueden diseñar e implementar el trabajo conjunto con operaciones efectivas y eficientes sobre el terreno. El programa PAA África se desarrolla actualmente en Etiopía, Malawi, Mozambique, Níger y Senegal desde febrero de 2012. Con una financiación de 4,5 millones de dólares EEUU aportada por Brasil y el Departamento para el Desarrollo Internacional del Reino...

El  Comité de Seguridad Alimentaria Mundial (CSA) se creó en 1974 y se reformó en 2009 para llegar a ser la plataforma internacional e intergubernamental más inclusiva hacia las partes interesadas con el fin de trabajar juntos y lograr seguridad alimentaria y nutricional para todos.  El CSA está compuesto por Miembros, Participantes y Observadores. Los Participantes pueden ser representantes de agencias y órganos de la ONU, organizaciones de la sociedad civil (OSC), sistemas internacionales de investigación agrícola, instituciones financieras internacionales o regionales, asociaciones del sector privado y fundaciones filantrópicas. El CSA puede invitar a organizaciones interesadas que sean relevantes...

20 August 2013, Buenos Aires/Rome - FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva highlighted the potential of South-South Cooperation and reiterated FAO's commitment "to strengthen and channel exchanges between Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa with the aim to adopt, adapt and broaden best practices that promote agricultural development"...

Si usted está leyendo este sitio web, puede que esté familiarizado con el importante debate en curso sobre cómo garantizar el acceso a los alimentos a todo el mundo: el debate sobre el futuro de la agricultura como actividad. ¿Estará basada en el uso de combustibles fósiles? ¿orgánica? ¿a pequeña escala? ¿dependiente de los fertilizantes? Este debate está vivo en las secciones de comentarios de muchos sitios web que se ocupan de estos temas, en foros en las redes sociales, en la literatura científica, y en páginas y páginas de libros y folletos publicados cada día. Se trata de un debate...