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  Date of Release: 12/11/2014 THEME: Reducing Risk for a Sustainable Agricultural Growth and Development Daily practical experience reveals that; risks, disasters, development and poverty are intimately linked. Loss or destruction of farms, farmlands, companies, properties, assets, livelihoods in through disasters set back hard-won development gains and worsen poverty. The 2014 edition...

Contributing to the Implementation of the AU Malabo Declaration (June 2014, Johannesburg, South Africa) THEME - Transforming Africa’s Agriculture for shared prosperity and improved livelihoods: Harnessing Opportunities for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development.   The African Union Commission (AUC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are...

En 2014, la Journée mondiale de l’alimentation aura pour thème l’agriculture familiale Le thème de la Journée internationale de l’alimentation 2014, «Nourrir le monde, préserver la planète», a été choisi pour accroître la visibilité de l’agriculture familiale et des petits exploitants. Il appelle l’attention mondiale sur le rôle crucial que joue...

The UN Women Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa, FAO, IFAD, WFP, IIRR, and the UN Women’s Knowledge Gateway for Women’s Economic Empowerment are organizing a sharefair on “Rural women’s technologies to improve food security, nutrition and productive family farming”. The Sharefair 2014 will be held in in Nairobi,...

OCHA Regional Office for West & Central Africa in Dakar has launched a fully dedicated Regional Ebola Crisis web page on the Humanitarian Response platform https://wca.humanitarianresponse.info/fr/emergencies/virus-ebola