Noticias

Message of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations On the 20th UN International Day of Co-operatives  5th July 2014   Worldwide, the important contributions of agricultural cooperatives to poverty reduction and the achievement of food security are becoming increasingly recognized. As autonomous businesses that are jointly-owned and democratically controlled by their members, cooperatives...

Representantes de diez organizaciones de la sociedad civil  de América Latina y el Caribe se reunieron durante la Conferencia Regional con José Graziano da Silva, Director General de la FAO, para debatir el aporte de dicho sector a la cooperación Sur-Sur, el cambio climático, el acceso a la tierra y la soberanía alimentaria. La representante del Movimiento Agroecológico de América Latina (MAELA), Maria Noel Salgado, destacó la Conferencia Regional de la FAO como un espacio formal de diálogo y de posicionamiento de la sociedad civil ante los gobiernos de la región, en particular de las organizaciones de productores de alimentos a...

A new programme worth €33 million to improve land governance and help improve the food and nutrition security of family farmers and vulnerable communities in Sub Saharan Africa, was announced today by the European Union’s Development Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs. This will be done, among other things, through the application, at country level, of some Voluntary Guidelines set up by the international community in 2012 to improve land governance.  Roughly 1.2 billion people worldwide live without permanent homes, land access or formal property rights, a reason which is often used for their land to be attributed to large scale land investors. Therefore,...

El acceso seguro y equitativo a los recursos naturales es clave para el desarrollo sostenible, y una buena gobernanza de la tenencia es crucial para determinar cómo las personas y las comunidades adquieren derechos de acceso y control de la tierra, la pesca y los bosques.  Un acuerdo firmado entre la FAO y el Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE) tiene como objetivo fomentar el diálogo, promover el intercambio de conocimiento en el marco de la cooperación Sur-Sur, e informar de políticas con el fin de mejorar la gobernanza responsable de la tenencia de la tierra y los recursos...

FAO senior officials met today with a high level clerical delegation working in the Central African Republic to talk about FAO’s work in the country and how agriculture can play a role in building peace in the country.    Deputy Director-General for Operations Daniel Gustafson and Emergency and Rehabilitation Division Director Dominique Burgeon, who was recently on a field visit to the Central African Republic, held talks with the Catholic Archbishop of Bangui, Dieudonné Nzapalainga, the chief Imam of Bangui, Kobine Layama Omar, and the leader of the Federation of Protestant Churches of the Central African Republic, Nicolas Guerekoyame Gbangou, invited...