Documents

Civil Society
14 Apr 2022
The latest installment in PSUP’s partnership brief series promoting FAO’s work with CSOs highlights the engagement between FAO and the World Rural Forum in support of family farmers and specifically the initiatives of the UN Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028.  
South-south Cooperation
04 Apr 2022
The importance of South countries in global agrifood markets and trade has been increasing over the last two decades, with growth in their participation, as both exporters and importers, having outpaced that of North countries. South countries, as a group, are net exporters of fruits, vegetables, fats and oils, and tropical products such as coffee, tea, cocoa and sugar, and net importers of key food commodities such as cereals, meat and dairy products. These patterns reflect structural changes along the development path. Agricultural productivity growth has fuelled expansion in the production of some products, while population growth and urbanization, rapid economic growth and...
South-south Cooperation
01 Apr 2022
In 2008, due to the growing interest of other developing countries in learning about successful Brazilian policies in the area of food and nutrition security (FNS) and agriculture, the Brazilian Government initiated a partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to share Brazil's experience through South-South cooperation, based on FAO's comparative advantages. Under the scope of this partnership, the implementation of Trilateral South-South Cooperation projects for the benefit of developing countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and Africa began in 2012, with technical support from Brazilian Cooperating Institutions (BCIs) such as the National Fund for Educational Development...
South-south Cooperation
07 Jan 2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has embraced South-South and triangular cooperation (SSTC) as a key delivery modality to catalyse agricultural development, food security, rural development, poverty reduction and nutrition over the past two decades. FAO has strengthened its support for SSTC since 2012, and the SSTC portfolio has been expanding in line with the progressive institutionalization of SSTC in FAO. The main objective of the new SSTC Guidelines for Action is to develop a results-focused vision and structure, providing strategic direction for FAO’s SSTC programme and strengthening FAO’s position as global advocate, convener, broker, facilitator...
Civil Society
20 Dec 2021
In order to promote some of the work FAO has been undertaking in partnership with civil society organizations (CSOs), the CSO Partnerships team of the FAO Partnerships and UN Collaboration Division has been putting together a small series of short publications, highlighting some of the successful collaborations of recent years. The second of the series features the partnership with the African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT)