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Parliamentary alliances
05 Oct 2020
Santiago/Rome – FAO Director-General QU Dongyu today met the Regional Coordinator of the Parliamentary Front against Hunger (PFH) in Latin America and the Caribbean, Jairo Flores, who is also a Deputy of the Congress in Guatemala, to discuss ways of strengthening the collaboration between FAO and Parliaments in the region to fight poverty, hunger and...
South-south Cooperation
05 Oct 2020
Los proyectos de cooperación Sur-Sur, +Algodón, en ejecución en países de América Latina; Algodón con Trabajo Decente, en ejecución en Paraguay, Perú, Malí y Mozambique; y Shire-Zambeze, en ejecución en Mozambique y Malawi, promueven el webinar Juntos Somos Más Algodón, en celebración del Día Mundial del Algodón - América Latina y África, el 7 de octubre (15h Chile/Brasil/Paraguay/Argentina; 13h. Ecuador/Colombia/ Perú; 20h. Mozambique). 
Private Sector
02 Oct 2020
Rome/Brussels - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and CropLife International today renewed and strengthened their commitment to work together and find new ways to transform agri-food systems and promote rural development through on the ground investment and innovation.
Parliamentary alliances
29 Sep 2020
Parliamentarians and civil society look at how to advance women’s land rights and their importance for the achieving the SDGs
For rural women and men, land ownership is crucial to support agriculture production and to ensure the food and economic security of their households. Secure ownership and control of land also has an important positive effect on women’s empowerment: secure land tenure is associated with higher levels of investment and productivity in agriculture, which in turn lead to higher income and greater economic well-being for women and their households. Where women are able to own or control land, they are less likely to depend on male relatives for economic security. Land rights also offer women greater bargaining power within their...
Parliamentary alliances
28 Sep 2020
Joint projects will aim to address root causes of hunger, malnutrition and rural poverty
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has signed a partnership agreement with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Francophonie, recognizing parliamentarians as key actors in the fight to end hunger, malnutrition and rural poverty.The 2020 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report paints a sobering picture: with just a decade to go to the endpoint of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the number of people affected by hunger and all forms of malnutrition continues to rise. The world is not on track to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030, and if...