Trade and innovation

The Minister of Youth and ICT, Jean Philbert Nsengimana, has said that agribusiness can curb unemployment among youth and to attract more young people to the sector, the 'Farming is Cool Rwanda' project was launched last week that is set to empower Rwanda's youth through a agribusiness.

presented by Benjamin Davis, FAO for the World Food Day 2015 in Sweden

Presented by Torsten Wetterblad, Sida at the World Food Day 2015 event in Sweden

Presented by Svetlana Boincean, IUF at the World Food Day 2015 event in Sweden

Melinda Fones Sundell blog from the 2nd Global Food Security Conference in Cornell.

Melinda Fones Sundell blog from the 2nd Global Food Security Conference in Cornell.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) was founded in 1945 and celebrates its 70 years anniversary today at the World Food Day 2015. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, José Graziano da Silva, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are leading the celebration.

The programme shall support the gaps in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, enabling grantees to overcome early stage uncertainty, step across the Pioneers Gap and move closer to financial sustainability and scale.

Forskning visar att ett av de mest effektiva sätten att minska fattigdom i utvecklingsländer är att investera i dessa länders jordbrukssektorer. Lyckade investeringar av detta slag möjliggör stärkt livsmedelsförsörjning på både landsbygd och i urbana områden och säkrar även bönders inkomstmöjligheter.