From increased food production to increased biodiversity our pollinators give us so much.
Here are just 5⃣ benefits 👇
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Our lives depend on agrifood systems.
Through our food choices we can achieve sustainable systems but what are the benefits?
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We join the people of Ghana 🇬🇭 in celebrating and honouring farmers today.
Happy #FarmersDay to all stakeholders in the agriculture sector working tirelessly to ensure #foodsecuruty in Africa.
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The ground beneath our feet is more precious than we know.
#Soils have the extraordinary capacity to form, store, transform, & recycle the nutrients we all need to survive, sustaining life on our planet.
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Our planet is struggling to keep up with us, & the natural resources we need to produce food are at risk.
By 2050, we will have to produce 60% more food to meet the global food demand.
This means that we have to learn to produce more food, sustainably.
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#Soils4Nutrition
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👉 Boosting intra-African agrifood trade in Africa
Policymakers, bilateral partners, and the private sector discuss creating deeper regional integration towards greater intra-African trade.
📖 Read more 👉 bit.ly/3iqRMTu
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We need collaboration all along the food chain, across sectors, and within communities, businesses, and trade to make food safe.
A strong collective commitment to food safety will also help us face key global challenges such as #ClimateChange and #AMR.
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Engaging young women and men in an agricultural sector characterized by an ageing labour force is crucial to ensure sustainable food security, reducing youth unemployment, and combat unplanned migration.
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From increased food production to increased biodiversity our pollinators give us so much.
Here are just 5⃣ benefits 👇
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We need healthy soils for a 👇🏽
🌍healthy planet
🍛healthy food
⚕️healthy people
Taking care of our #soils & their health is not optional.
🎥How you can help👇
#Soils4Nutrition #WorldSoilDay
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95% of the food we eat wouldn't exist without soil. And more than 90% of the benefits of soils have yet to be discovered.
Here's how to nurture and harness this bounty 👉 doi.org/10.4060/cc0900
#Soils4Nutrition
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By 2050, antimicrobial resistance could reduce global annual gross domestic product (GDP) by 3.8%.
Everyone has a role to play in ensuring that antimicrobials keep working 👉 bit.ly/3CLfRfy
#AntimicrobialResistance #OneHealth
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We acknowledge the importance of the youth as managers of our #agrifood systems.
👉 As such, we must explicitly work with them to ensure inclusive economic development that is resilient to future crises.
Learn more from our youth in agriculture page 👉 bit.ly/3Vt1d3D
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Learning, sharing, debating 👥
For the past three days, and have been exchanging with businesswomen in the fisheries sector on opportunities and challenges under the AfCFTA as part of the joint EWAT programme.
#SheTrades
#LeaveNoOneBehind
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Over 50 businesswomen from the fisheries sector joined us this week for a three-day training on creating business opportunities for women under the AfCFTA, as part of the joint EWAT programme💪🐟.
#EWAT
#womenintrade
#SheTrades
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What would we do without food labels?
They are essential to making healthy and safe food choices.
#FoodSafety
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What does water mean to you?
For some, it is food, energy, life. For others it is EVERYTHING.
Whatever the meaning, we all depend on it! Let's protect this precious resource!
#UN2023WaterConference #WaterAction
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Our lives depend on agrifood systems.
Through our food choices we can achieve sustainable systems but what are the benefits?
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📢 Join us for the Launch of the International Year of Millets 2023.
It will be a year to explore & promote the value of this crop & the many benefits it offers people & the planet.
🗓️ 6 December
🕧 12:30 CET (Rome)
📝 Register: bit.ly/3XuYnfy
#IYM2023 #YearofMillets
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📣 14 Dec on Zoom! Launch of the new #Ruralinvest - a tool to develop #bankable #sustainable #agribusiness plans
💻 New user-friendly software
✍️ Comprehensive e-learning course
👩🏫 Tailored face-to-face training
📚 Practical user manuals
👉 Register bit.ly/3U1KW3R
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We acknowledge the importance of the youth as managers of our #agrifood systems.
👉 As such, we must explicitly work with them to ensure inclusive economic development that is resilient to future crises.
Learn more from our youth in agriculture page 👉 bit.ly/3Vt1d3D
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#CFIgef is at 4⃣ World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress to present #Senegal's good practices in the implementation of the #SSFGuidelines for
🔹Sustainable #fisheries
🔹Better livelihoods
🔹Food security & poverty eradication
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/3V51FVb
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Supporting small-scale artisanal fishers, fishworkers & fishfarmers benefits more than just them & their communities.
🥄 These women & men provide healthy, safe, affordable & nutritious aquatic foods for all.
#IYAFA2022 #ArtisanalFisheriesAquaculture
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Urban trees can:
🌳Increase urban biodiversity
🌳Filter urban pollutants
🌳Reduce carbon emissions
Discover more benefits 👇
#GreenCities
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Assessing the impacts of the #COVID19 pandemic on the livelihoods of rural people
How locking down the cities tightened the screws on the countryside. Our 54-country analysis is here 👉doi.org/10.4060/cb7672
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The persistent agrarian crisis facing Africa and the recent food price hikes must provoke greater urgency among governments to identify public policies that can accelerate the agricultural transformation toward achieving food security and nutrition.
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Severe floods across Nigeria during the recent agricultural season (Apr-Oct) have devasted people’s lives and livelihoods.
To increase the resilience of flood-prone communities, urgently needs $21.6 million to assist 770 000 people.
bit.ly/3GEO1UA
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Since the start of 2022, over 1 million people in Somalia have been displaced due to drought.
To prevent displacement and protect rural livelihoods, is bringing assistance directly to rural areas, where food-producing communities are hardest hit.
bit.ly/3Q4rf9F
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The Director of Emergencies meeting the President of Somali Region H.E Mustafa Muhumed Omar & other leaders. Mr. Paulsen is on a working visit to Ethiopia to assess drought conditions & ongoing FAO response in Somali & other parts of eastern & southern Ethiopia
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Reducing food waste is one of the most impactful climate solutions there is.
Every one of us can help to:
🍜fight food insecurity
🌎protect resources
👣reduce our carbon footprint
💰save money & energy
🦹consume more consciously
Help to make #NotWasting a way of life!
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👩💻Digitalization can help transform agrifood systems in Small Island Developing States & provide livelihood opportunities for the most vulnerable, including women & youth.
🏝️Learn how digital innovation is helping the #SIDS get closer to achieving SDGs👇
#SIDSSolutions #COP27
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How much do you know about #FoodSafety?
Let's take a look at 5⃣ common misconceptions 🧵👇
#CodexCAC45
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If it isn’t safe, it isn’t food.
Food is the starting point for our energy, our health and our well-being.
How we can work together to prevent foodborne diseases 👉 bit.ly/3PlVIzG
#FoodSafety #CodexCAC45
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Beekeeping in Yemen dates back to the 10th century, producing many varieties of delicious honey.
But conflict in the country has affected beekeepers & beekeeping.
🎥Thanks to a - project, beekeepers like Salim are producing honey again.
#BeeEngaged #SaveTheBees
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Achieving food security in the future while using water resources in a sustainable manner must be the way to go.
FAO’s WaPOR portal is assisting countries to monitor water productivity and gaps, proposing solutions to reduce these gaps.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/3AH183G
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Did you know that #soils provide the nutrients we need for #HealthyDiets?
Get inspired as we explore good practices & solutions to protect biodiversity & improve diets while mitigating climate change.
Listen to our podcasts to learn more 👉 bit.ly/3zS2BUB
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Sustainable mechanization can improve the livelihoods of millions of people & ensure there is enough food for everyone.
Learn how machines & tools are transforming the way we farm 👉bit.ly/32aQXns
#AgInnovation
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Decent working and living conditions are essential for small-scale fishers, fish farmers, and fish workers to secure livelihoods and maintain their social, physical, and cultural well-being.
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FAO & are equipping adolescent girls with:
👩🌾Good agric practices
🍲Nutrition knowledge
💰Income generating activities
For food, nutrition & income security.
#Afikepo
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Great to have Fatmata Binta visit FAO's headquarters in Rome today.
On the agenda was the ancient grain #fonio and how it can be a game-changer for Africa's future.
Thank you Chef Binta!
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