FAO Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism: Achieving gender-parity in decision making
27/05/2022
Climate change is severely affecting food security, ecosystems and livelihoods. But did you know that climate change is also worsening inequalities? Women and youth, Indigenous Peoples and other vulnerable groups are disproportionally affected by climate change.
FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism: Fighting against Fall Armyworm
15/04/2022
A silent and fast spreading threat is endangering the food security of nearly 600 million people, especially the most vulnerable. It can ravage over 80 different types of crops. The prey of choice? MAIZE. Unless we act fast, it could devour 80 million tonnes per year.
FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism: Fighting against Fall Armyworm
15/04/2022
Since its arrival in West Africa in 2016, Fall Armyworm (FAW) has spread across Africa, the Near East and Asia, reaching as far as Australia. In Kenya, Josephine Owese cultivates maize in order to feed families and livestock. In 2017, FAW attacked her crops.
Recognizing FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) Resource Partners
31/03/2022
12 years ago, FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) was born. Since then, the FMM has increased its impact times 5, improving the lives and livelihoods of people in over 70 countries.
FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) welcomes Australia as Resource Partner
09/03/2022
FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) welcomes a new Resource Partner, Australia. Australia contributed around USD 1 million to FAO’s FMM to help finance life-saving programmes and essential development initiatives around the world.
Dimitra Clubs and Farmer Field Schools face off against COVID-19
09/03/2022
Under the banner of FAO’s component IV of the Global Humanitarian Response Plan for COVID-19, “Ensuring food supply chain actors are not at risk of virus transmission”, the project developed a range of products including a series of documentaries and animated films to facilitate documentation and dissemination of emerging COVID-19 sensitization responses in 11 focus countries.
FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism empowering women through Slow Food Communities in Palau
04/03/2022
The video showcases the interconnection between sustainable tourism, gender equality and food security in Palau. It presents the main highlights of the Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) subprogramme, "Empowering women in food systems and strengthening the local capacities and resilience of SIDS in the agri-food sector in Palau."
Sustainable tourism: empowering women and men in Palau
22/02/2022
The video showcases the Sustainable Tourism Value Chain programme, implemented under the Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) subprogramme, "Empowering women in food systems and strengthening the local capacities and resilience of SIDS in the agri-food sector."
FAO's Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism, supporting school feeding in Guyana
15/02/2022
Welcome to Guyana, where FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) supports a school feeding programme. Together we are ensuring that each student receives the nutritious food they need to grow up healthy.
#FMM: Pulses for a healthy diet and a healthy planet
10/02/2022
FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) helps farming families produce more nutrient-rich foods, while protecting our scarce natural resources. Growing pulses can help us achieve this and more.