Noticias
![FAO and Italy inaugurate renovated FAO building](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_rm-entrance-main-pic-kn_thumb.jpg)
Resource Partners
21 Jul 2021
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, joined by the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi di Maio, and the Italian Minister for Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility, Enrico Giovannini, inaugurated today the revamped main entrance of FAO Headquarters in Rome, which has been refurbished and modernized along with some other areas of the building, as part of the periodic, regular maintenance of the historic compound.![FAO and the Republic of Korea join forces to reduce foodborne antimicrobial resistance](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_5c4c0526aa.jpg)
Resource Partners
20 Jul 2021
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Republic of Korea, through its Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS), today signed a new Framework Arrangement which establishes overarching terms and conditions that will govern the cooperation through voluntary contributions and facilitate future negotiations between MFDS and FAO.![FAO and Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences take partnership to the next level](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_CATAS.jpg)
Fao-Academia
19 Jul 2021
A new Memorandum of Understanding will boost cooperation in the field of tropical agriculture science
19 July 2021, Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), setting out a path for their continued cooperation in the field of tropical agricultural science and technology.The MoU was signed virtually by Ismahane Elouafi, FAO’s Chief Scientist, and LIU Guodao, Vice President of CATAS for International Cooperation. The partnership will...![Empowering Tunisian youth to invest in agri-food systems](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_1_fmm-tunisia-3.jpg)
Resource Partners
14 Jul 2021
In an effort to foster inclusive territorial development and combat the high youth unemployment rates in Tunisia, FAO’s Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) launched a pioneering initiative in the country.![FAO and Flanders – strong engagement on international development](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_rm-Flanders.jpg)
Resource Partners
09 Jul 2021
As part of the Day of the Flemish Community (11 July) the Government of Flanders organized a luncheon for the diplomatic corps in Brussels. The FAO Liaison Office in Brussels congratulated Deputy Minister-President of the Government of Flanders and Flemish Minister of Economy, Innovation, Work, Social Economy and Agriculture Hilde Crevits for her nomination as National Convenor for the United Nations Food System Summit.![FAO and ICA renew their partnership pledging to support cooperatives as key actors to achieve the SDGs](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_24991_0065.jpg)
Civil Society
05 Jul 2021
FAO and the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) have renewed their collaboration for an additional three years, focusing on further strengthening cooperatives’ technical capacities.The partnership between these two organizations has been in place since 2018, helping to promote the role of cooperatives in achieving key aspects of FAO’s mandate, such as food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture. ICA, which represents and serves cooperatives worldwide, provides a global voice and forum for knowledge, expertise and coordinated action for and about cooperatives. The alliance works at the global and regional level to create the legislative environments that allow cooperatives to form...![Gender value chains and sustainable tourism in Small Island Developing States](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_fmm-IMG_1815[1].jpg)
Resource Partners
01 Jul 2021
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) include some of the world’s most remote countries that share a similar set of challenges, including susceptibility to natural disasters, limited resources and dependence on international trade, in addition to a common aspiration for sustainable development, improved living standards and the remediation of gender inequalities![A paradigm shift in development interventions through community engagement](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_fmm-RDC-Tshopo-copyright-Yannick-De-Mol.jpg)
Resource Partners
24 Jun 2021
On Tuesday, 22 June 2021, the last webinar in the “Community Engagement Days” series, entitled "Community Engagement for Collective Action," was held via zoom. The series, which was organized by the Dimitra Clubs Team of FAO with the support of Resource Partners contributing![FAO cooperates with CGIAR to increase interoperability between food and agricultural information systems](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_CGIAR.jpeg)
Fao-Academia
24 Jun 2021
FAO and CGIAR have established a collaboration to enhance data sharing in the food and agricultural domain through the further use and enhancement of the AGROVOC Thesaurus, a multilingual controlled vocabulary that covers terminology related to FAO’s areas of interest. AGROVOC is a valuable tool to classify data homogeneously, facilitate interoperability and reuse. It can ease the collection, storage and use of agronomic data, enabling easy and reuse of the data by humans and machines.