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Nouvelles

Type: Nouvelles
Year: 2023

19 June 2023
9:00 – 13:00 (CEST, Rome time)

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The increasing impacts of climate change and the consequences of drought necessitate the development of adaptation and mitigation measures across various aspects of the agrifood systems. Research and technological innovation are considered essential means to avoid economic and social crisis and achieve sustainability. The actions should focus on cross-cutting activities, including policy, knowledge sharing, capacity development with specific considerations to health, nutrition, gender and youth empowerment relevant to drought management and mitigation in agrifood...

Type: Nouvelles
Year: 2023

FAO’s Office of Innovation (OIN) held a three-day retreat from 17 to 19 April 2023 to reshape its foundation and deliberate on strategic innovation processes and services it should offer to FAO and its Members. The event aimed at defining the vision and mission of the Office of Innovation and help positioning FAO as a leading UN agency on innovation for agrifood systems transformations globally.

The retreat began with an exercise aimed at refreshing the vision and mission of the Office, involving envisioning what the world might look like in 2050, and what role innovation in FAO would play in that...

Type: Nouvelles
Year: 2023

Grenada’s Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Fisheries and Cooperatives has partnered with FAO to launch two projects aimed at promoting digital agriculture and resilient food systems across the Caribbean Island.

The projects, entitled: “the Global Network of Digital Agriculture Innovation Hubs (DAIH) and the Regional E-Agriculture for the Caribbean – a post-COVID-19 Mechanism to advance resilient agrifood (REA),” were launched at a workshop held from 22 to 24 March in the capital St. George.

The joint-initiative marks a bold step towards revolutionizing the agricultural sector by scaling-up digital agriculture and innovative practices to modernise harvesting methods across...

Type: Nouvelles
Year: 2023

FAO has awarded funding to eight innovation proposals under a pioneering new scheme named the “Innovation Fund Incubator,” which aims to enhance FAO’s culture of continuous innovation by nurturing the development, and piloting of innovative ideas, as well as learning from their implementation and impact.

The selected proposals range from working with larvae for sustainable protein production, utilizing drones to prevent the spread of pandemics in remote areas to establishing indicators to accelerate policies to narrow the gender gap.

The project pitches are all interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary and teams are composed of members of four FAO regions and seven...

Type: Nouvelles
Year: 2022

L'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) œuvre avec ses États membres et ses partenaires de développement à inverser l’actuelle tendance d'aggravation de l'insécurité alimentaire et de la malnutrition et atteindre les Objectifs de développement durable (ODD), en particulier l'ODD 2 de faim “Zéro” d'ici 2030. Le travail de la FAO est guidé par son nouveau cadre stratégique qui vise à transformer les systèmes agroalimentaires afin de les rendre PLUS efficaces, inclusifs,  résilients et  durables en vue d’améliorer la production, la nutrition, l’environnement et les conditions de vie, sans laisser personne de côté. 

Les biotechnologies agricoles font partie...

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