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FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva today attended an African Union (AU) summit which is set to focus on a continent-wide commitment by governments to end hunger by 2025, and also on efforts to boost the role of women in achieving prosperity in Africa. Heads of state and of government meeting...

Short before he left Mozambique, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations agencies based in Rome, David Lane, described the collaboration between the three Rome-based UN agencies in the country as "impressive". This was at the end of a five-day visit to Manica province, in central Mozambique, where he met...

For five days, 11 technicians attended a training in detection, surveillance and epidemiology of the peste des petits ruminants (PPR). The goal of the workshop – which was promoted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and by the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG)/DNSV – was to...

Few weeks before the end of 2014, declared by the UN as "International Year of Family Farming", the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on Thursday (4/12) attended a conference on "Family Farming and Development in Mozambique". The event, jointly organized with the Rural Development Observatory (OMR)...

Throughout three days the "Dialogue for the strengthening of civil society in the food and nutrition security sector" brought together representatives of civil society organizations as well as from the Technical Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition (SETSAN) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Maputo....