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H.E Wilfred Ngirwa, the Chairperson of Africa Group, informed the G77 Members that a recommendation to set up a Dr. Jacques Diouf Food Security award was raised during the last Africa Regional Conference. He called for the G77 support on this regard [...]

Ministerial Declaration Action Plan on Food Price Volatility and Agriculture Meeting of G20 Agriculture Ministers. Paris, 22 and 23 June 2011       Please click on the preferred language below to download the declaration.   English French

The thirty-seventh session of the FAO Conference will be held from the 25 June to 2 July 2011 at the FAO Headquarters, Rome. For the Provisional Annotated Agenda, click here. For the Provisional Timetable, click here.  

After the regular plenary meeting of the G77 on 26th of January 2011, the handover ceremony was held in a jubilant and warm manner in FAO  headquarters to transfere the chairmanship of G77 from the outgoing chairperson Mr Ibrahim Abu [...]

Below are the links for the new edition of the G77 Newsletter for April / May 2010: G77 Newsletter in Arabic G77 Newsletter in English G77 Newsletter in French G77 Newsletter in Spanish Please forward any comments or suggestions to the Consultants office at [email protected] [...]

FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf recently opened three new offices at Rome headquarters to help the Group of 77 Rome Chapter further develop its work. But what is the Chapter and how does its work relate to FAO?

1 September 2009, Rome - The final text of a new treaty that aims to close fishing ports to vessels involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing has been agreed upon by a group of 91 countries during [...]

27 August 2009, Rome - The detection of an H1N1 virus in turkeys in Chile raises concern that poultry farms elsewhere in the world could also become infected with the pandemic flu virus currently circulating in humans, FAO said today. [...]

25 May 2009, Rome - Land acquisitions are on the increase in Africa and other continents, raising the risk that poor people will be evicted or lose access to land, water, and other resources, according to the first detailed study [...]

23 April 2009, Rome - High food prices persist in developing countries despite an improved global cereal supply situation and a sharp decline in international food prices, FAO warned today in its latest Crop Prospects and Food Situation report. This [...]