15/10
2020
7/10
2020
Organized by the African Union (AU) Commission in collaboration with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and The World Bank,...
7/9
2020
Context: FAO and its partners seek to create a “Digital Innovation Ecosystem” that brings together experts, young entrepreneurs, public sectors, researches and civil societies to find innovative joint solutions that address...
3/8
2020
Context In April, the FAO Director-General QU Dongyu and the Chair of the African Union Specialized Technical Committee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Water and Environment Angela Thoko Didiza co-convened the AU-FAO...
13/7
2020
The special event will launch the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 (SOFI 2020). The report contains the most recent and authoritative estimates of the extent of hunger, food...
2/7
2020
2/6
2020
Funding and investments opportunities for agrifood SMEs are scarce in Africa, due to the perceived risks of the agricultural sector, coupled with the lack of capacity of financial institutions and...
16/6
2020
Background The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic and various measures taken by the Governments to safeguard the spread of virus, including restriction of movements of people and goods have been affecting the food...
8/6
2020
10/6
2020
Everyone has the right to safe, nutritious and sufficient food. Still today, almost one in ten people in the world fall ill after eating contaminated food. When food is not...
2/6
2020
Introduction: With growing populations of youth in Africa, coupled with the rising age of farmers, FAO and its partners can explore new ways to design and manage its agricultural programs in...
9/3
2020
13/3
2020
At the kind invitation of the Government of the Republic of South Africa, the Twenty-Second Session of the African Forestry and Wildlife Commission (AFWC22) and the Sixth African Forestry and...
2/3
2020
Recent trends in Africa provide significant opportunities for private sector-led growth that can stimulate investments and drive rural and agricultural Transformation in African economies. These trends include: Growing African food markets...
25/2
2020
27/2
2020
Harare, Zimbabwe The next African Civil Society Consultation for the 31st FAO Regional Conference will be held from 25 to 27 February 2020 in Harare, Zimbabwe. This important meeting will be...
8/2
2020
Background The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the African Union Commission, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are jointly organizing a High-level Side Event on Maintaining...
26/11
2019
28/11
2019
QUOI: Atelier de lancement du projet sous-régional sur le “Contrôle durable de la rage humaine transmise par les chiens en Afrique centrale’’. POURQUOI : Examiner et valider les Directives de la COMIFAC pour...
18/11
2019
23/11
2020
Nairobi, Kenya – The Regional Tripartite (FAO, OIE, WHO) and the African Union (Africa CDC and AU-IBAR) will be jointly organizing World Antibiotic Awareness Week campaign for the first time...
11/11
2019
14/11
2019
A Global Action Plan (GAP) to tackle the growing problem of resistance to antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines was endorsed at the Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly in May 2015. One...
3/9
2019
6/9
2019
Accra, Ghana. The Africa Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) is one of the world’s most prominent fora for African agriculture. The theme for this year is “Grow Digital: Leveraging digital transformation to...
16/7
2019
19/7
2019
Kigali, Rwanda. By establishing intra-regional policy dialogue on gender equality in agriculture through sharing country and regional experiences, the members of the ECOWAS Network of Parliamentarians on Gender Equality and...
11/6
2019
Round Table of Contributors, Malabo, 11 June 2019 Equatorial Guinea. The Africa Solidarity Trust Fund (ASTF) is an innovative Africa-led fund to support African development initiatives. Its main goal is to strengthen food security across...
10/6
2019
14/6
2019
Regional Capacity Building Workshop on Monitoring of SDG Indicators in Eastern Africa, Addis Ababa, FAO Subregional Office for Eastern Africa will host the The Regional Capacity Building Workshop on Monitoring of SDG...
10/6
2019
11/6
2019
Background The food and nutrition security situation in Africa’s drylands particularly in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa remains a major concern, marked by both chronic and acute poverty and...