FAO Liaison Office Newsletter, July 2018 - Issue #9

Abstract

The July 2018 Newsletter of the FAO Liaison Office for North America highlights a roundtable co-hosted with CARE Canada in Ottawa on the importance of empowering and investing in women in agriculture, a roundtable with GAIN highlighting the need to integrate biofortification into agriculture policies and programs, as well an EcoAgriculture - FAO North America event which examined the critical role of property rights in integrated landscape management. Further highlights in July include a Congressional Briefing with the Alliance to End Hunger and the Senate Hunger Caucus which critically analyzed the role of research and technology in paving way for better nutritional outcomes, and a collaboration with the Danish Embassy to highlight the issue of global food loss and waste with a screening of the movie “Wasted – the Story of Food Waste”. Furthermore, the newsletter features CARE Canada in the partner corner, global highlights from FAO and three new flagship publications on forests, fisheries and a global agricultural outlook.