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Michelle Sandigan Mohammad sabe bastante de sequías. En la isla de Mindanao (Filipinas), donde cuida de su explotación agrícola, la sequía es un enemigo pertinaz. Antes, durante los períodos secos asociados a El Niño, se quedaba sin cosechas y sin ingresos, pérdidas que hacían mucho más difícil enfrentarse a la...
El Director General de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), Sr. QU Dongyu, ha subrayado que la agricultura y el desarrollo rural son fundamentales para garantizar la seguridad alimentaria y la erradicación de la pobreza, en particular en la medida en que los países tratan de...
19/02/2020The learning programme “Creating an enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems”, which benefitted 28 policy makers from Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, and Senegal, has resulted in the development of national action plans that will guide the process to increase responsible investment in agriculture needed in the region....
The complete series of five free courses on rural poverty reduction is now available on FAO’s e-learning Academy as a global public good. The e-learning series is a comprehensive learning path on rural poverty and rural poverty reduction, highlighting key concepts, tools and case studies proven to support efforts to...
Webinar: Behind the scenes of a global poverty number and the challenges of rural estimates
11 Jun 2020
11 Jun 2020
On on 17 June from 15:00 - 16:30 CET, the FAO Technical Network on Poverty Analysis (Think-PA) is organising a webinar titled “Behind the scenes of a global poverty number and the challenges of rural estimates”.
To register for the webinar, click here.
Overview:The first target of the SDGs is to eradicate extreme...