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As the world faces conflicts, a climate crisis, COVID-19 and the depletion of natural resources, parliamentary action to tackle hunger and malnutrition is critical. Parliamentarians – with their powers to draft and adopt legislation, approve public budgets and monitor the implementation of public policies and government commitments – are well placed to ensure that food security and nutrition are prioritized on national political and legislative agendas. To look at the way forward through parliamentary action, FAO, together with the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) in close collaboration with the Chilean government, the Spanish Parliament, the National Congress of Chile and the Parliamentary Front against Hunger...

03/04/2023 The FAO Dryland team’s MEV-CAM initiative kicked off its expansion into Latin America with a four-day training course on process documentation methods, its first-ever workshop held virtually. Eleven participants from six Latin American countries with Monitoring & Evaluation, technical and communications backgrounds attended the training, gaining valuable insight into the use of innovative tools to approach process documentation, knowledge management, and a participatory way to complement monitoring and evaluation on the ground. Over the course of four sessions, trainees gained a solid background and overview of how to implement MEV-CAM’s methods, which put the participation of local communities at the forefront...

Accra – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has signed a five-year partnership agreement with the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA). The deal renews and formalizes the two organizations’ long collaboration. Working closely with each other for more than 20 years, FAO and FARA are now pursuing a more strategic and sustainable partnership to facilitate greater collaboration for improved production and productivity in Africa. “I am proud of what we have...

28/03/2023 Rome/Accra - South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) lays the building blocks to facilitate knowledge creation, catalyze investments, create networks and match making.  As such, FAO via SSTC facilitates mutual learning, ensures that cooperating partners adhere to mutual commitments and that technology and knowledge are adaptable to local conditions environmentally friendly, economically sustainable and socially inclusive. These matters and other items were discussed at today’s virtual Capacity Development workshop on Resource Mobilization for South-South and Triangular Cooperation: “Leveraging partnerships and resource mobilization for south-south and triangular cooperation for reducing poverty and hunger, and promoting sustainable food systems”. The workshop aimed at improving the...

On 13 March 2023, FAO’s Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division, Regional Office for Africa, and Development Law Service addressed the Gender Committee of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) to highlight key legal challenges to gender equality in agrifood systems and provide recommendations for the development of a new model law.  Proposal of a model law on gender equality in agrifood systems comes as part of an ongoing collaboration between FAO and PAP to develop regional framework laws to improve food security and nutrition in Africa. FAO and PAP have had a Memorandum of Understanding in place since 2016 under the...