7 April 2021, Harare - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has launched a new online course on developing national atlases of tsetse fly and African animal trypanosomosis (AAT) to promote the control of high impact Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs). Trypanosomosis is a blood-borne parasitic disease of cattle spread through the bite of a tsetse fly. A tsetse and AAT atlas is a national-level information system on the occurrence of the pest and disease in space and time. The course has been developed by the Programme Against African Trypanosomosis (PAAT), and it is hosted by the Virtual...

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...

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.

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. 

16 March 2021 - The “Capacity-building Workshop on Freshwater Aquaculture Value Chain Development and Food Security through South-South Cooperation” was officially launched today under the framework of the FAO-China South-South Cooperation (SSC) Programme.  This virtual workshop, which will run from March to April 2021, aims at improving the capacity of participants to respond to the global challenges facing the aquaculture sector, and exchange knowledge in building resilient value chains.  The virtual capacity development workshop is designed to support local fish-farmers, producers, policymakers and other stakeholders in resilient building of freshwater aquaculture value chains. In particular, this collaborative international workshop will discuss emerging vulnerabilities...