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The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today thanked Members of the Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) for their financial support and invited them to strengthen their collaboration with the Organization to transform agri-food systems and build sustainable agriculture, particularly to fight the impacts

绿色气候基金董事会今天批准了联合国粮农组织在阿根廷、危地马拉和苏丹设计的三个新项目，总金额达1亿5860万美元，旨在减缓温室气体排放，加强应对气候变化的抵御力，遏止毁林。

今天，联合国粮农组织正式启动"粮食联盟"，为努力防止新冠疫情引发全球粮食危机的协同行动注入了新的动力。 "粮食联盟"将"联结各类网络"，欢迎各利益相关方和跨领域联盟自愿参与，支持创新举措，以保障全球粮食获取，推动以可持续方式增强农业粮食体系抵御力。"粮食联盟"由意大利政府发起，获得了超过30个国家的积极响应。联盟将支持现有和新发起的工作，协助克服疫情影响，帮助各国走上实现2030年可持续发展目标的正轨，尤其将确保消除饥饿与贫困的两大目标如期实现。

On 29 September 2020, the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) authorized an exceptional voluntary contribution to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) of EUR 2.8 million. This year, Spain has generously increased its voluntary contributions and broadened the spectrum of international cooperation to support actions that can help alleviate the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable populations. This includes enhancing food security, protecting the livelihoods of impacted farming families, and improving the resilience of rural communities, as well as activities aligned to achieving...

African Ministers for Agriculture have emphasized the importance of ensuring food security and nutrition, and continuing agricultural activities during the response to COVID-19 – including production, marketing, harvesting, storage and value addition. Safe food and nutrition are essential to the health response: in the African context, the COVID-19 crisis is being compounded by a food crisis. This calls for a holistic approach to address public health concerns and ensure food security in a comprehensive and coordinated manner. Urgent, strategic and coordinated action is needed to minimize disruptions in food supply chains in the short-term, and improve the resilience of agriculture production...