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FAO hails partnership potential with civil society
12/10/2019
Rome - Partnerships at multiple levels are critical to achieving a world without hunger, FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu said Saturday at a meeting with leading exponents of civil society and indigenous...
Syrian women food producers learn new skills from Italian farmers
27/08/2019
Rome/Damascus - Slow Food and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are organizing a study tour this week in northwest Italy for a group of Syrian small-scale women farmers.
The...
Dialogue with young farmers
12/12/2017
Rome, 12 December - FAO and the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) joined forces to guarantee that future farmers, pastoralists and fishers can meaningfully contribute to decision making...
FAO and URGENCI sign agreement on local and solidarity-based food distribution systems
30/10/2017
A new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between FAO and URGENCI, an international network that supports community agriculture, is poised to deepen the UN agency’s collaboration with global civil society.
The agreement,...
New partnership recognizes consumers as drivers for Zero Hunger
12/04/2017
Rome - FAO and Consumers International, a global federation of consumer rights groups, have agreed to intensify their collaboration to help end hunger. The agreement recognizes that consumers around the...