Reducing food waste is something each & every one of us can do to help:
🍜fight food insecurity
🌎protect precious resources
👣reduce our carbon footprint
💰save money & energy
🦹consume more consciously
Do your part to make #NotWasting a way of life!
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When rural women have access to resources, services and opportunities, they become a driving force against hunger, malnutrition and rural poverty.
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Advancing the rights of small-scale fishers, fish workers & fish farmers is key to ensuring the sustainable growth of the sector.
🌊 🐟 Improving #ArtisanalFisheriesAquaculture laws & policies is key to this!
#IYAFA2022
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Today's key challenge is how to increase production to meet the growing demand for food, feed, and bioenergy while conserving biodiversity and reducing the pressure on natural resources and ecosystems.
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#DYK that 9⃣5⃣% of our food comes from #soils?
🤎 Learn more about the relationship between healthy soils and healthy food👇🏼
#Soils4Nutrition
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Advancing the rights of small-scale fishers, fish workers & fish farmers is key to ensuring the sustainable growth of the sector.
🌊 🐟 Improving #ArtisanalFisheriesAquaculture laws & policies is key to this!
#IYAFA2022
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Sustainable gastronomy can help us to take care of our one & only planet.
4 ways to practice sustainable gastronomy:
1️ Buy from small-scale, local producers
2️ Try local foods
3️ Cook a traditional recipe with local ingredients
4️ Say no to #FoodWaste
#ClimateAction
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Artisanal fishers & fish farmers are proof that small actions can have BIG impacts.
The International Year of #ArtisanalFisheriesAquaculture 2022 is all about recognizing, supporting & empowering them 👉 bit.ly/3C7UTDR
#IYAFA2022
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Family farming preserves traditional food products while contributing balanced diet and safeguarding the world's agro-biodiversity and sustainable use of natural resources.
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🧐 Did you know?
On Earth, there are 92 naturally occurring chemical elements, 18 are essential to plants and 15 of them are supplied by soils!
Soil health & fertility have a direct influence on the nutrient content of food crops 🌱
#Soils4Nutrition
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What is it that makes olive oil good?
Olive oil is rich in monounsaturated fats & antioxidants. 🫒
Read how & , thanks to support from the European Union, are working with key olive oil industry players to improve quality from tree to bottle.
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Across Africa, fishing and aquaculture are important source of livelihoods and nutrition for many millions of people.
celebrates Africa's fishers as the custodian of our natural resources and food security.
#IYAFA2022
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Maintaining #biodiversity means:
🐛Healthy ecosystems
🧑🌾Resilient rural livelihoods
🥕Nutritious food
Our future of food depends on it.
Here are just 5 benefits 👇
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To build enabling policy environments for small-scale artisanal fishers, fish farmers & fish workers we must:
⚖️ include them in decision-making
📜 use traditional knowledge & voices to shape policies
📊 leverage data
What governments can do: bit.ly/3N38thO
#IYAFA2022
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Agroecology can help 👇
🌱Build resilient livelihoods
🌱Safeguard biodiversity
🌱Boost nutrition
🌱Sustainably manage the planet’s natural resources
🌱Respond to climate change
Learn how 👉 bit.ly/38xjLI0
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Why do we need to protect our #soils & soil nutrition?
Simply put: nutrient-deficient soils produce nutrient-deficient plants.... which ultimately lead to people suffering from nutrient deficiencies.
#Soils4Nutrition
#WorldSoilDay
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Join us tomorrow for this special event, with:
🐟Madagascar's Tsimanaoraty Paubert Mahatante
🐟Liberia's
🐟Okeloh W’Namadoa Silvano
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🐟 IYAFA
🐟 LEA-FAO
#IYAFA2022
Register 👇🏿
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Digital Africa ( ) est partenaire de cette nouvelle édition du Challenge App Afrique.
Pour soumettre vos candidatures 👇appafrique.rfi.fr/fr/participer
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Family farms produce more than 80 percent of the world’s food in value terms, confirming family farming’s central importance in world food security today and for future generations.
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Let's transform our agrifood systems for:
🔹Better production
🔸Better nutrition
🔹Better environment
🔸Better life, leaving no one behind.
A sustainable & food secure world for all is possible if we work together 👉 bit.ly/3BpUI7M
#4Betters #GlobalGoals
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📌 SAVE THE DATE
will be hosting a closing event for the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA) in Africa.
📅 20 December 2022
⏲️ 10:00 AM GMT
Click on the link to register 👉 bit.ly/3hd6hdz
#IYAFA2022
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Here are just 5 reasons why fruits & vegetables are essential to our health & wellbeing!
#HealthyDiets
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Preserving biodiversity is essential for food security and nutrition.
#DYK that 80% of the planet’s #biodiversity is found on traditional indigenous territories?
#COP15
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Did you know that, among other benefits, transitioning to a sustainable & circular bioeconomy can help to mitigate & adapt to #ClimateChange?
Learn more about the impacts of #bioeconomy on the #ClimateCrisis & our agrifood systems 👉 bit.ly/3E9c6zO
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Are you looking for more information about fruits, vegetables or the benefits farming them can bring?
Make sure you check out these helpful resources and educational tools 👉 bit.ly/3l7zogL
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When it comes to ensuring the health of people, plants, animals & our planet, we must work together to find ways to reduce the need for antimicrobials.
A #OneHealth approach is crucial to preventing, detecting & controlling diseases & #AntimicrobialResistance.
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Here are just 5 reasons why fruits & vegetables are essential to our health & wellbeing!
#HealthyDiets
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Here are some of the faces of FAO's winning team in Africa!
The whole Africa team was among the winners at this year's FAO Employee Recognition Awards.
Find out more from the Qu Dongyu 👉🏾fao.org/director-gener
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FAO in Africa is one of the winners for this year One FAO Team Award. Congratulations to all FAO colleagues on the continent for your extraordinary achievements under the leadership of our ADG @AbebeHGabriel
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As consumers, we can all contribute to reducing the amounts of food waste that go to landfills, by changing our attitudes and behaviours toward reducing food waste in our homes.
👉 Each one of us can make a difference.
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Congratulations to our winner from Africa!
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Women play a crucial role in fisheries and aquaculture.
Empowering them can
🐟 boost production
📉 reduce poverty
🍲enhance food security
Empowering women in the sector can make a difference to millions 👨
#IYAFA2022
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There is no without its employees or their passion to ensure no one is left behind. Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Employee Awards. Thank you for your tireless efforts to deliver on FAO's mandate & for contributing to this year's extraordinary achievements.
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will be hosting a closing event for the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA) in Africa.
📅 20 December 2022
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Click on the link to register 👉 bit.ly/3hd6hdz
#IYAFA2022
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Congratulations to us 👏 👏👏
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Congratulations @FAOAfrica Team for winning the One FAO Team Award 2022!
We appreciate the recognition for our collective extraordinary efforts in an extraordinary FAO year 2022.
So proud of leading this dynamic team.
Let's keep the momentum for the 2023 Year of Excellence!
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🌊 Our oceans, rivers & lakes have the potential to feed the world.
🌍But only if their valuable resources are managed responsibly & sustainably.
We need a #BlueTransformation to ensure that our aquatic food systems thrive!
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Obtaining a quality education is crucial to improving people’s lives and sustainable development.
Yet millions of children in rural communities are trapped in child labour, while the average out-of-school rate worldwide is twice as high in rural areas compared with urban areas.
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The conflict in northern Mozambique continues to exacerbate an already strained food insecurity situation.
Thanks to funding from and , is responding to rapidly growing needs and has provided life-saving assistance to 75 000 people.
📷 bit.ly/3YntLNJ
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The #agrifood systems agenda should be co-owned by making it at the centre of the work we all do.
, delivering a keynote address at #RUFORUMAGM2022.
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Food security and a healthy agricultural sector can play a critical role in preventing conflict and distress migration, and in building peace.
👉 In many countries, disasters or political instability have resulted in protracted crises and food shortages.
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