L’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture a accueilli en son siège, les 3 et 4 mai 2018, la Commission de la coopération et du développement de l’Assemblée Parlementaire de la Francophonie (APF), accueillant ainsi environs cinquante parlementaires issus d’une quinzaine de pays.  Au cours de la cérémonie officielle d’ouverture, Mme Maria Helena Semedo, Directrice générale adjointe de la FAO, a souligné « le rôle essentiel des décideurs politiques, dont les membres des Parlements, pour établir des cadres légaux et institutionnels favorables » vers...

14 May 2018, Midrand, South Africa — The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is strengthening the capacity of Africa Legislators to address food security and nutrition challenges on the continent.This follows a Technical Cooperation Project (TCP) signed between FAO and Pan Africa Parliament titled “Strengthening capacities of Parliamentarians in Africa for an enabling environment for Food Security and Nutrition”, last October 2017.Various stakeholders, including Members of the Pan-African Parliamentary Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (PAPA – FSN) and a...

Panama City - More than 40 advisers from the Parliamentary Front against Hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean (FPH-LAC) participated in a meeting on 2-4 May 2018 at the headquarters of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (PARLATINO) in order to strengthen their capacities in food security, nutrition and the right to food.  The activity is part of a course offered by the PARLATINO and the United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO), with the support of the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID) through the “Mesoamerica without Hunger” program and the Spanish Agency for International...