Cette ferme pilote valorise les déchets organiques issus des marchés, restaurants et agro-industries par un procédé de bioconversion. Grâce à l’action des larves de mouches soldats noires, ces biodéchets sont transformés en protéines animales destinées à l’alimentation des volailles, poissons et porcs, ainsi qu’en biofertilisants pour enrichir les sols agricoles...

A cet effet, le bureau de la FAO au Sénégal, en collaboration avec ses partenaires institutionnels, a organisé cette mission en Côte d’Ivoire. Le choix du pays hôte n’est pas anodin : la Côte d’Ivoire a développé ces dernières années plusieurs initiatives innovantes visant à promouvoir l’économie circulaire avec des résultats concrets...

A regional workshop on Knowledge Management for Biodiversity (KM4B) brought together delegates from African countries from 21–24 July 2025 in Ethiopia to strengthen collaboration and capacity in support of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (Framework). The KM4B Initiative is designed to enhance national capacities in knowledge management to support evidence-based biodiversity planning, policy development, implementation and monitoring...

In Luweero District, Uganda, coffee and banana farmer Jane Nakandi Sebyaala, also runs the Twezimbe Kassala Community Seed Bank. Its mission is to preserve indigenous seeds, a foundational element of keeping the range of biodiverse crops in fields...

The Government of Malawi and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in partnership with local fisheries cooperatives, are scaling up fish-based products to enhance school feeding programs...

Qatar joined the Flexible Voluntary Contribution (FVC) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in July 2024 with a contribution of USD 4 million, delivering on its commitment to advance progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and improving lives and livelihoods around the world.

Partners of FAO’s Flexible Voluntary Contribution (FVC) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) senior management met for the 2025 Annual Partner Consultation.

Partners working for gender equality in agriculture met in Nairobi, Kenya, for a kick-off workshop organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to launch a new project to empower women and improve livelihoods in rural communities...

The FVC Resource Partners' Field Trip, co-organized by the FAO Representation in Uganda and the Secretariat of the FVC, allowed resource partners to have a first-hand experience of how FVC-funded interventions have been instrumental to harnessing opportunities and addressing the most pressing challenges in the country...

Several projects have been involved in the work with women fishers in Madagascar since 2020. These include...

The United Republic of Tanzania’s Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries in close cooperation with FAO implemented the project “Creating an enabling environment for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries” between 2019 and 2023...

The World Food Forum (WFF)'s Global Youth Action Initiative (Youth Initiative) hosted a side event at the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development 2025...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), partnering with the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and the Ministry of Agriculture of Tajikistan...

From 24 to 28 February 2025, the Secretariat of Flexible Voluntary Contribution (FVC) and FAO Tanzania jointly organized a field mission to Arusha, Dodoma and Dar es Salaam with a high-level delegation...

Despite its protracted crisis, South Sudan’s agricultural sector is bursting with potential—and strengthened governance could be the key to unlocking it...

Zambia has taken a major step forward in the implementation of the One Country One Priority Product (OCOP) initiative with the successful convening of its first Technical Working Group (TWG) meeting on 18 March 2025...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has initiated a project in Nepal aimed at informing policymaking on strengthening the resilience of Indigenous Peoples through social protection...

On March 26th, 2025, the Office of Innovation hosted a dynamic session of the Junior Innovation Policy Labs at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy. The event, organized by Nevena Alexandrova-Stefanova, leader of the Policies and Capacities for Innovation Unit, with her colleagues Zofia Mroczek, Manuela Bucciarelli and Yuxin Hong as facilitators...

The FAO team in Côte d'Ivoire worked with government officials, the Institute of Circular Economy of Abidjan and local startup BioANI to train local farmers, particularly women, in how to harvest the flies and develop the fertilizer and feed. The big worry for the team was whether local farmers w...

The Government of the Netherlands has contributed USD 4.5 million for the new phase (2022-2025) of the Flexible Voluntary Contribution (FVC). The Netherlands was one of the pioneer resource partners to...