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"Universities in Africa have a crucial role to play in strengthening the capacities of African countries, enabling them to achieve their national development goals and ultimately contribute to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and agrifood systems transformations", said Justin Chisenga, FAO Capacity Development Office and Team Leader - Partnerships with Academia and Research Institutions at the 20th Principals and Deans Business Meeting, held on 15 December 2022, a side event at the 18th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) on the theme "Strengthening...

Rome, Italy. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law have renewed their partnership through the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding with an aim of strengthening policies and legal frameworks to ensure food is safe and healthy for all. The new agreement builds upon the FAO-UCLA partnership established in 2019 and recommits to actions for achieving Better Nutrition to "end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition in all its forms, including promoting nutritious food and increasing access to healthy diets"...

The "Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management" (MEV-CAM) Initiative alters the way South-South knowledge management is approached by using local and indigenous knowledge to restore degraded drylands with more sustainable practices. By empowering communities and stakeholders to demonstrate their skills, express their challenges, and share successes, the most significant impact can be visualized from the process of change itself.

FAO has provided an update on its engagements with non-state actors (NSAs), publishing its Partnerships with Non-State Actors at FAO Progress Report 2020-2021. The paper sets out how the FAO Partnerships and UN Collaboration (PSU) Division has continued to facilitate FAO’s work with a wide range of partners, including civil society organizations, cooperatives, producer organizations, parliamentarians, Indigenous Peoples, academia and research institutes. The report covers...

FAO has provided an update on its engagements with non-state actors (NSAs), publishing its Partnerships with Non-State Actors at FAO Progress Report 2020-2021. The paper sets out how the FAO Partnerships and UN Collaboration (PSU) Division has continued to facilitate FAO’s work with a wide range of partners, including civil society organizations, cooperatives, producer organizations, parliamentarians, Indigenous Peoples, academia and research institutes. The report covers...