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On the sidelines of the World Sustainable Development Summit, the Kingdom of Morocco, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) organized a High-level Panel focusing on the theme: “Food Security and the achievement of SDGs in Africa: what role for South-South and triangular cooperation”.

أيلول 2019، نيويورك - في لقاء عقده اليوم مع ممثلي القطاع الخاص على هامش الاجتماع الرابع والسبعين للجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة، قال المدير العام لمنظمة الأغذية والزراعة للأمم المتحدة (الفاو) شو دونيو إن بناء نموذج عمل جديد مبني على العلم والبيانات والشفافية والمسائلة بما يؤدي إلى شراكات قوية مع القطاع الخاص هو أمر تركز عليه الفاو بشكل كبير. وقال شو لممثلي القطاع الخاص: "يحتاج العالم إلى منظمة فاو قوية وفعالة وحيوية. والفاو من جهتها تحتاج إلى شراكات قوية وموثوقة معكم". وشكل الاجتماع فرصة لمناقشة وتعزيز الشراكات لتحقيق التحول الذي تشتد الحاجة إليه في النظم الغذائية، وتعبئة جميع التكنولوجيات والابتكارات والمعارف والخبرات المتاحة...

Rabat, Morocco - FAO was invited by the Director-General of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) to attend the DryArc Initiative Co-Design Workshop, and provide inputs and suggestions for a new research for impact initiative of eight centers of the CGIAR  This cross-CGIAR partnership includes: the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), the WorldFish, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the International Water Management Institute...

On the sidelines of the 5th Investing in Africa Forum, held from 10 to 12 September in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, FAO’s Regional Representative for Africa, Abebe Haile-Gabriel, met with representatives of the Congolese Parliament to discuss the role of parliamentarians in the fight against hunger and malnutrition. Mr. Haile-Gabriel commended the President of the Senate, Pierre Ngolo, and the President of the National Assembly, Isidore Mvouba, for their leadership on keeping issues of food security and nutrition at the forefront of the political agenda. The leaders of the two chambers of Parliament were instrumental in creating a Congolese...

Mozambique – FAO is supporting Zimbabwe, a land-locked country, in becoming a South South Cooperation (SSC) provider of expertise to its neighboring countries in Southern Africa on the control of a high-impact Transboundary Animal Disease (TADs), the tsetse-transmitted African Animal Trypanosomosis, AAT. This disease is a major constraint for poor livestock keepers, but it also affects human beings as the so called ‘sleeping sickness’. During the first week of September, the first SSC technical exchange activities took place in Maputo, Mozambique. An expert from Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement, Division of Tsese Control Services, visited Mozambique’s...