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31 December 2014, Rome - Brazil has added $17 million in funding to projects undertaken in its ongoing partnership with FAO, highlighting the Latin American country's role as a key regional and global contributor to the fight against hunger...

15 December 2014, Rome/Marrakesh - Horizontal cooperation between countries of the global South is increasingly important to meeting the sustainable development challenges of our time, said FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva at the first International Conference on South-South Cooperation in Marrakesh, Morocco, this weekend...

25 Novembre 2014, Rome, – La FAO et ActionAid International ont renforcé les synergies pour un prochain protocole d’entente (Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)) dans une réunion technique tenue aujourd'hui au siège de la FAO à Rome. «Nous voulions identifier les capacités spécifiques de ActionAid et les faire correspondre avec les activités de la FAO pour faire avancer la mise en œuvre des objectifs stratégiques à travers les initiatives régionales et les activités au niveau des pays», a déclaré Rodrigo Castañeda, directeur des partenariats de la FAO.

26 November 2014, New York - The promotion of development around the world is no longer based solely on developed countries helping developing ones, according to a senior official of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization...

19 November 2014, Washington D.C. - Hundreds of representatives from the southern hemisphere of the world gathered in the United States today to discuss ways to improve the lives of developing nations through sustainable agriculture. CCTV America’s Frances Kuo reported this story from Washington D.C...

Malnutrition is one of the greatest threats to people’s health and well-being. It imposes unacceptably high health, social and economic costs, especially on women, children and the elderly, and more broadly on families and society. Improving nutrition, and ensuring everyone has access to a healthy diet, is not the responsibility of the individual alone. Nutrition is a public issue that must be addressed primarily by governments, in collaboration with other stakeholders including civil society, the private sector and academia. In this partnership framework, FAO especially welcomes the support of Italian transport giants Aeroporti di Roma (ADR), Ferrovie dello Stato...

FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva today urged lawmakers from around the world meeting in Rome to play their part in transforming into positive results the commitments to provide healthier diets for all people which governments are expected to adopt at this week's global nutrition conference. The FAO Director-General was speaking at a meeting organized in Rome by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) which represents lawmakers from over 170 countries. Improving nutrition requires a collective effort. It requires well-designed laws that improve food systems, ensure healthy diets and strengthen school meals. It also requires adequate public budgets and it calls for...

2nd meeting of the organizing committee on access to land calls for civil society organizations and governmental institutions to mobilize and launch global debate on land tenure and investment agreements    The International Organizing Committee of the World Forum on Access to Land and Natural Resources (WFAL) held its second meeting at FAO’s headquarters in Rome earlier this month, encouraging a discussion on solutions to help improve poor farmers’ access to land, water and natural resources.   Signatories of the WFAL call for a global forum on the subject to be held next year to...

31 Octobre 2014, Rome - Depuis l'approbation de la Stratégie de la FAO en matière de partenariats avec les organisations de la société civile et le secteur privé en Avril 2013, la FAO a officialisé 54 accords avec des Acteurs Non Etatiques (ANE). La liste complète des partenariats de la FAO avec les acteurs non étatiques, ainsi que leur lien avec les Objectifs Stratégiques et les premiers progrès dans leur mise en œuvre, peuvent être trouvés ici. «Avec une forte implication...

30 Octobre 2014, Rome – le Comité International de Planification pour la Souveraineté Alimentaire (CIP) et la FAO ont pris encore un pas en avant dans leur longue relation de collaboration. Des représentants de la plus grande plate-forme de petits producteurs dans le monde et de la FAO ont organisé aujourd'hui une réunion technique dans le cadre de leur partenariat renouvelé pour discuter de la façon d'ouvrir des espaces de participation inclusive et de dialogue dans des domaines thématiques clés tels...