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A one-day hybrid event has been slated to hold at the headquarters of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome on 29 November, starting at 09: 00 CET, ahead of the 2023 World Water Conference, reports NaijaAgroNet.Water is central to agriculture, which accounts for 72 percent of global freshwater withdrawals. And while awareness of water’s importance is growing, much more still needs to be done to value and manage it in a coordinated and holistic way to achieve all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Sunday, April 24, 2016
Hackers invade FAO headquarters
Last Friday, a group of Italian and international hackers literally invaded headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
in Rome for a United States (US)- government-sponsored ‘Fishackathon’ reports
NaijaAgroNet.
The Fishackathon, NaijaAgroNet reports, was aimed at cooking
up high-tech solutions to problems that have long plagued fishing communities
around the globe.
The Assistant Director-General of FAO's Fisheries and
Aquaculture Department, Árni M. Mathiesen, said that working in teams in a
marathon hacking session, the group of around 30 coders, technology students,
developers and designers will be asked to harness FAO data to develop creative
mobile applications, systems, and tools to help tackle key challenges facing
sustainable fisheries.
Mathiesen also said that these range from illegal,
unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, to overfishing and degradation of
fishing grounds, to post harvest losses of catches.
Teams of 2-8 people joined forces to brainstorm solutions
that responses to one of nine fisheries-related problem statements to be
provided.
On Sunday, FAO experts would judge the submissions and one
team will be chosen as the winner.
NaijaAgroNet recalls that the exercise now in its third
year, the Fishackathon was first launched in 2014 by US Secretary of State John
Kerry at the Our Oceans conference is an event taking place in 40 cities around
the globe.
The winners of each, including this weekend's Italian
edition, will move forward into a global contest whose final outcome will be
announced by the US government on June 8 at World Oceans Day 2016.
Last year's Fishackathon winners included a game to teach
children about sustainable fishing, an app to help consumers find and eat
sustainable seafood, and a reporting tool for marine mammal protection.
Thursday, May 21, 2015
FAO to unveil report of hungry people
The annual State of Food Insecurity in
the world report would be unveiled at the forthcoming World Food Summit in Rome
with expectation it will provide new figures for the number of chronically
hungry people globally, reports NaijaAgroNet.
The meeting, NaijaAgroNet
reports, would also take stock of progress made towards achieving the
Millennium Development Goal (MDG1) as it kicks off on Wednesday, May 27, 2015.
NaijaAgroNet learnt that United Nations (UN) bodies slated to present their
reports include the three Rome-based food agencies, namely the International Fund
for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
and the UN World Food Program (WFP).
The
new hunger report, NaijaAgroNet gathered, would be
presented jointly at FAO’s headquarters by its Director-General José Graziano
da Silva, IFAD Associate Vice-President, Josefina Stubbs and Stanlake Samkange,
Director of WFP's Policy and Programme Division.
In
addition, Maurizio Martina Italy's Minister of
Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies, NaijaAgroNet
learnt, would participate via videolink from EXPO 2015 in Milan.
This
year’s edition of State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI) contains
updated estimates of the number and proportion of hungry people in the world in
2015, the target year of the Millennium Development Goals.
It also offers analysis into what drives
successful anti-hunger programs, such as agricultural investments, in addition
to the growing importance of social protection schemes and the new challenges
presented by the increasingly protracted nature of crises, NaijaAgroNet also gathered.
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
FAO, WHO host preparatory technical meeting on nutrition
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and World Health
Organisation (WHO), Wednesday commence a three-day preparatory technical
meeting on nutrition in Rome on major nutrition challenges (ICN2).
The meeting is also expected to enhance international
cooperation, even as they would collaborate with the Italian Foreign Ministry
on Thursday to host the ‘Gender, nutrition and agriculture’ side-event.
NaijaAgroNet
reports that the United Nations (UN) System Standing Committee on Nutrition seminar
with Bioversity International and Govt of Malawi on nutrition and
sustainability was held on Tuesday.
Also NaijaAgroNet
reports that everyone has the right to good nutrition and yet the figures showed
that all too many people are denied this right.
“Some 842 million people are chronically hungry, but many
more die or suffer the ill effects of inadequate nutrition,” experts from FAO
disclosed, while about 2 billion people are affected by micronutrient
deficiencies.
In addition, NaijaAgroNet
gathered that an estimated 7 million children die before their fifth birthday
every year, 162 million children under five are stunted while at the same time,
500 million people are obese.
NaijaAgroNet
recalls that over 50 countries and many international experts will gather at
FAO headquarters in Rome to focus on ways to speed up improvements in nutrition
- especially in developing countries, through policy changes, international
coordination and the exchange of knowledge.
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Sunday, October 6, 2013
World agriculture ministers to brainstorm on international food prices
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Agriculture
Ministers from around the world would Monday, 7 October assemble at the
headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome for the
second ministerial meeting to brainstorm on international food prices.
NaijaAgroNet
gathered from a news briefing hosted by FAO Director-General José Graziano da
Silvawith that some 40 ministers and deputy ministers have confirmed their
participation in the forum that is meant to pool knowledge on how to enhance
the effectiveness of measures to address food security problems caused by
international food price volatility.
It will recalled that the first meeting
on food price volatility was held in October 2012 in response to the third
spike in international grain prices in five year, although prices of cereals
and oilseeds on international markets have fallen from the peaks reached in
July 2012, they remain high and there are concerns that markets continue to be
vulnerable to supply shocks.
“The event will be held on the first day of the 40th Session of
the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), even though the ministerial meeting is not part of CFS,
it will allow CFS delegates to follow the proceedings,” he said.
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