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Beijing - On the occasion of World Food Day 2020, FAO China Office collaborated with Toutiao, a popular Chinese social media network with 120 million daily active users, to organize the Food Heroes Campaign and celebrate food heroes who contributed to ensuring food supply during the COVID-19 outbreak. Various organizations and general public were invited to contact FAO-China and nominate the food heroes they know.On 16 October, 15 candidate profiles were selected and posted for public voting on Toutiao. During the ten-day voting period from 16 to 25 October, the total votes for 15 candidates reached 1,154,727....

A double-celebration marking World Food Day and the 75th anniversary of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) underscored the need to make urgent and lasting changes to ensure food security for all, in keeping with the theme of this year’s observance, Grow, Nourish, Sustain. Together. Our actions are our future.   FAO Director-General QU Dongyu joined in the FAO Brussels event, along with the Vice-President of the European Parliament, the European Commissioner for Agriculture, high-level officials from the OACPS, and the Director of the World Food Programme.   “Our work is not done yet. Together with all key stakeholders, we are working to...

El 29 de septiembre de 2020, la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) autorizó una contribución voluntaria excepcional a la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO) de EUR 2,8 millones. Este año, España ha aumentado generosamente sus contribuciones voluntarias y ha ampliado el espectro de la cooperación internacional para apoyar acciones que puedan ayudar a paliar los efectos devastadores de la pandemia de COVID-19 en poblaciones vulnerables. Esto incluye mejorar la seguridad alimentaria, proteger los medios de vida de las familias...

Diego Urbano, un estudiante de 18 años del sur de Colombia, lleva el café en la sangre. Nació en una familia productora de café y ahora, tras unirse a un proyecto dirigido a impulsar el uso de la tecnología en el sector, le apasiona continuar esa tradición, dándole un giro innovador.“Como jóvenes, queremos continuar labrándonos el futuro en el campo, y queremos lograrlo siendo innovadores en la producción, la comercialización y el consumo”, afirma Diego.Como parte del proyecto, Diego y otros 29 estudiantes del centro de enseñanza La Victoria fueron formados en los procesos de cosecha,...

Brussels - In recent years, parliamentarians in Europe and other regions of the world have formed alliances to step up efforts to combat hunger and malnutrition globally, while making food systems more sustainable, inclusive and resilient. The European Parliamentary Alliance against Hunger and Malnutrition,  was created in 2016 as an initiative of and under the auspices of FAO, is an alliance of currently 30 members of the European Parliament formed with the aim to achieve the objectives encompassed in the Sustainable Development Goals and in particular, SDG2 (end hunger). “The European Parliamentary Alliance against Hunger and Malnutrition always works to keep food security...