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6 April 2020, Mexico - Mexico, CARICOM and FAO have organized a regional meeting to launch a sub-project on “Resilient school feeding programs” that aims at strengthening the capacities of institutions and stakeholders to implement resilient and sustainable National School Feeding Programs in Bahamas, Belize, St Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, this initiative has been reformulated to place greater focus towards supporting participating countries in their responses to safeguard livelihoods, ensure adequate access to healthy food and ensure sustainable management of natural resources. The Mexico-CARICOM-FAO Initiative began its implementation in...

On March 26, FAO and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) joined hands in a virtual signing ceremony for two Funded Activity Agreements, following the approval by the GCF board of two grants worth USD 80 million for FAO-led projects in the Republic of Congo and Jordan. Both are the first GCF-funded projects in those countries, underscoring FAO's focus on expanding the use of global tools to advance climate action in food and agriculture. The PREFOREST project in the Republic of Congo aims to mitigate 16.7 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions over 20 years by...

One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, parliamentarians from countries in the Near East, North Africa and Ethiopia gathered for a virtual dialogue on food security and nutrition in the time of COVID-19. The dialogue, the third in a series organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and supported by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), offered parliamentarians from the Arabic-speaking world a forum to share their experiences in helping their countries to guarantee food security, nutrition and the right to food during the containment and recovery phases of the pandemic.

Les entreprises et, de manière plus générale, le secteur privé peuvent contribuer de manière importante à la réalisation des objectifs de développement durable (ODD) et au suivi des progrès accomplis en la matière, mais leur rôle spécifique n’est pas suffisamment pris en compte dans le Programme 2030. C’est pourquoi la FAO a mis au point des lignes directrices, intitulées Indicateurs de base sur l’alimentation et l’agriculture visant à mesurer la contribution du secteur privé aux ODD. S’appuyant sur le document Guidance on core indicators for entity reporting on the contribution towards the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals ...

A new report portrays the relationship between FAO and Turkey in a detailed and striking manner. Entitled FAO+Turkey: Partnering for food security and sustainable management of natural resources, the report highlights the growing cooperation between the two partners.

When Alfayo Mayemba went out on a hot sunny day and counted the trees on his farm in Kombi village in Tanzania, he probably wasn’t thinking about saving the planet. He was thinking about whether he’ll be getting better prices when he sells the wood, which is one way he

Brasília, Brasil 19 de marzo de 2021 – Casi 200 personas participaron del taller virtual de lanzamiento del “Manual de Buenas Prácticas de la Agricultura Familiar en la Región Semiárida de Brasil - Tecnologías Sociales de Captación, Manejo, Gestión y Uso del Agua”, transmitido el día jueves, 18 de marzo, por las plataformas Zoom y Twitter FAOBrasilCoop.

À un an du début de la pandémie du COVID-19, des parlementaires de différents pays africains d'expression française se sont réunis pour un dialogue virtuel sur la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition au temps du COVID-19. Le dialogue, le deuxième d'une série organisée par l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'Alimentation et l'Agriculture (FAO) et soutenu par l'Agence Espagnole de Coopération Internationale au développement (AECID), a offert aux parlementaires un forum pour échanger leurs expériences sur les défis et les opportunités pour la sécurité alimentaire, la nutrition et le droit à l'alimentation dans les phases de confinement et de relèvement de...

Deux projets conçus par la FAO, l'un axé sur l'agroforesterie en Afrique subsaharienne, l'autre sur la gestion de l'eau au Proche-Orient, ont reçu aujourd'hui 80 millions d'USD, ouvrant ainsi la voie à l'amélioration des moyens de subsistance de plus de 250 000 petits exploitants.

Promotional video dedicated to the "Making every voice count for adaptive management" initiative co-led by the Forestry Department and the South-South and Triangular Cooperation Division in FAO. The initiative will complement and support the steps planned to be taken by the GEF-7 Sustainable Forest Management Impact Program on Dryland Sustainable Landscape.