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Rome, Italy Land degradation and desertification in the Mediterranean is becoming increasingly pronounced due to climate change and increasing pressures on agricultural and forest land. This has negative implications for ecosystem services, climate change mitigation, food security and the social, economic and political sectors. The combination of all of these factors requires concerted efforts toward sustainable land and water management. With...

Brasília, 15 de agosto del 2022 - Durante un panel internacional en el Encuentro Nacional de Catastro Rural, promovido por el Instituto Nacional de Colonización y Reforma Agraria (Incra), en la ciudad de Brasília, Brasil, fueron presentado los principales hallazgos del estudio “El estado del arte de registro y catastro de tierras en América Latina”, desarrollado en el marco del proyecto Apoyo a la gobernanza de la tenencia responsable de la tierra en América Latina y el Caribe, que integra la acciones del Programa de Cooperación Internacional Brasil-FAO.

04 August 2022, Rome/New York: Countries of the global South offer myriad development solutions, delivered in the forms of knowledge, experiences, good practices, innovative policies, technologies and resources, that can be adapted to the socioeconomic, environmental and agroecological contexts of other developing countries, according to the newly launched South-South in Action report.

A capacity-building workshop on Promoting Rural Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship through Digital Innovation was successfully organized by the South-South and Triangular Cooperation Division (PST) and the Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division (ESP) in July 2022, in collaboration with the Center of International Cooperation Service (CICOS), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) of China.  The workshop aimed to facilitate strategic discussions on potential contributions of digital innovation to agriculture and rural development, with the focus on the creation of decent rural employment and entrepreneurship targeting young women and men. The workshop brought together about 60 participants from 12 countries...

Brasília, 26 de julio del 2022 - El proyecto de alimentación escolar del Programa de Cooperación Internacional Brasil-FAO reunió por primera vez el comité técnico directivo de la Red de Alimentación Escolar Sostenible (RAES), el día 21 de julio. Participaron de manera virtual los puntos focales de la Red en más de 10 países de América Latina y el Caribe, donde se abordó el funcionamiento de la Red, sus objetivos, su forma de apoyar a los países y fueron debatidas las prioridades y expectativas de las naciones socias. 

26 July 2022 Rome/Amsterdam/Beijing—The second annual Joint Project Steering Committee (JPSC) meeting of the project “Up-scaling the FAO-China South-South Cooperation Programme through triangular cooperation with the government of the Netherlands (Part I)” was successfully organized by the South-South and Triangular Cooperation Division (PST) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).  The virtual meeting brought together the two donors, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China (MARA) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (MANF) of the Netherlands, and three implementation agencies from the two countries, to review progress in the implementation of the...

Rome Italy Building on a common vision for a sustainable and prosperous world, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Luiss Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (Luiss) have embarked on a new partnership through the signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance food and nutrition security, sustainability, inclusiveness, and resilience of agrifood systems as laid out in FAO’s Strategic Framework for a better world where no one is left behind. The new partnership builds from FAO’s and Luiss’ history of cooperation to increase institutional and human capacities of new and mid-level food security professionals....

The United Nations General Assembly declared 2022 as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA).  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is the lead agency for celebrating the year in collaboration with other relevant organizations and stakeholders.  IYAFA 2022 has provided a unique opportunity to highlight the potential and diversity of small-scale artisanal fisheries and aquaculture, and underline the unique benefits of engaging in partnerships and cooperation with fishers, fishfarmers and fishworkers.  IYAFA 2022 has engaged a wide range of actors, including civil society organizations, in its many activities.  One such organization is the...

On 16 June 2022, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and of the Nature Conservancy (TNC) formalized their partnership through the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed by QU Dongyu, Director General, FAO and Jennifer Morris, CEO, TNC.   FAO and TNC have a long-standing collaboration, having worked jointly on a number of projects and co-developed a series of policy...

Rome/Kampala - Uganda is contributing nearly $10 million to the latest phase of a South-South Cooperation project focused on crop and animal production with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Chinese government after the first two phases yielded dramatic results, including a quadrupling of rice production per hectare. In one of the most significant contributions of its kind from a beneficiary country under the initiative, the Ugandan government is putting in $9 623 703 through a Unilateral Trust Fund (UTF). This comes in addition to $2 389 138 contributed by China to Phase III of...