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The Hunger Free Latin America and the Caribbean Initiative, supported by FAO, has won an award for its outstanding work in the fight against hunger and malnutrition.

The award was presented to Mr Rafael Garranzo, director of Cooperation of Latin America and the Caribbean of the Spanish Agency for International Development [...]

IN ELDORADO, one of São Paulo’s poorest and most misleadingly named favelas, some eight-year-old boys are playing football on a patch of ground once better known for drug gangs and hunger. Although they look the picture of health, they are not. After the match they gather around a sack of [...]

The FAO Food Price Index rose by nearly two percent or four points from December to January – its first increase since July 2011.

Prices of all the commodity groups in the index registered gains last month with oils increasing the most, followed closely by cereals, sugar, dairy products and meat. [...]

The United Nations declared an end to famine conditions in Somalia today, but warned that with recurrent droughts in the Horn of Africa hunger remains a threat unless long-term measures are taken to restore food security.

According to a new report by the FAO-managed Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) [...]

Cooperatives and producer organizations will be increasingly important in efforts to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty around the world, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told participants at the 2012 Thematic Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, during an official meeting with the Economic and Social Development Council (CDES) of [...]