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In order to promote some of the work FAO has been undertaking in partnership with civil society organizations (CSOs), the CSO Partnerships team of the FAO Partnerships and UN Collaboration Division has been putting together a small series of short publications, highlighting some of the successful collaborations of recent years. The third brief of the...

En el marco de la XIV Sesión Plenaria de la Asamblea Parlamentaria Euro-Latinoamericana (EUROLAT) convocada, este 2022, en Buenos Aires, bajo el lema "Una recuperación económica justa, inclusiva y en paz", se conformó hoy el Grupo de Trabajo Parlamentario Eurolatinoamericano por la Seguridad Alimentaria.  El...

The United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 (UNDFF) underscores the importance of family farming for achieving food security and adequate nutrition through inclusive and sustainable agri-food systems. Family farming brings benefits to rural people and territories, favouring economic and physical access to adequate food for all as well as safeguarding biodiversity and the environment. Moreover, it is paramount to coherently strengthen legislative and institutional frameworks across all the relevant policy areas of family farming to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. 

Wageningen, Netherlands/Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today formally launched a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Wageningen University and Research (WUR) in the Netherlands, aimed at developing and sharing knowledge and harnessing science, technologies and innovation for transforming agrifood systems. Collaborating since the 1970s, the two institutions have strengthened the partnership through development of a new MoU, concluded in December 2021.

Two virtual capacity-building training courses on hybrid rice and hybrid foxtail millet were successfully organized by the South-South and Triangular Cooperation Division (PST) from 7-28 March 2022, in collaboration with two Chinese specialized institutions. The trainings brought together about 40 participants from six African countries namely the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Uganda, Namibia and Nigeria.  The first capacity-building training course on hybrid rice was organized in collaboration with the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center (HHRRC) of China from 7 to 16 March 2022. The training aimed at enhancing the capacity of government officials, researchers and rice experts from the six African...

Como parte de su gira por la Argentina, el Director General de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), QU Dongyu, se reunió con el presidente de la Honorable Cámara de Diputados de la Nación (HCDN), Sergio Massa, con el fin de dialogar sobre políticas locales y globales orientadas a garantizar la seguridad alimentaria. En el encuentro que se produjo en el Salón de Honor del Congreso argentino, se destacó la aprobación reciente de leyes alineadas con los objetivos de la Organización y vinculadas con el desarrollo del sector agroindustrial, el uso de las nuevas...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Maritime University (WMU), a United Nations General Assembly recognized global centre of excellence on maritime and ocean...

Santiago, Chile – March 31, 2022 - During a bilateral meeting at the FAO Regional Conference, in Quito, Ecuador, held on March 31, the head of the Brazilian delegation for the event, Ambassador Ruy Pereira, Director of the Brazilian Cooperation Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (ABC/MRE) delivered a commemorative publication for two 14 years of the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Program to the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Qu Dongyu. The document “Brazil and FAO, the path to cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean: A historical alliance for promoting sustainable development and food security in...

El documento entregado por la Agencia Brasileña de Cooperación (ABC) a la FAO celebra la trayectoria de 14 años de la alianza entre Brasil y la FAO en la región.

Civil society organizations (CSO) from Asia and the Pacific have concluded a two-day virtual meeting in preparation for their participation in a major multilateral conference aimed at charting a course for the region’s food security and agrifood systems transformation