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04/11/2021 Colombo – A project to provide technical assistance to improve the production and commercialization of fruit value-chains in Sri Lanka has been launched by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture with financial assistance from the People’s Republic of China. The project, valued at over USD 1.1 million is implemented under the FAO-China South-South Cooperation Tripartite Agreement between FAO, the People’s Republic of China and the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.

FAO is set to host the Third Annual Academia Perspectives Roundtable entitled “Delivering Targeted and Impactful Results: Transformative Partnerships with Academia and Research Institution” on Monday, 15 November 2021 from 13:00 to 14:45 hours CEST. The Roundtable will inform participants on the FAO Strategic Framework 2022-2031, highlight the need for stronger and strategic engagement with the academia and research community at country-level, and bring a...

Libreville - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) are launching a capacity-building program on responsible investment in agriculture and food systems for members of the Parliament of the Gabonese Republic. This initiative, conducted under the aegis of the Gabonese Parliamentary Alliance for Food and Nutritional Security (APGSAN), aims to support members of the Alliance in their ambition to improve public policies for fighting hunger and malnutrition in the country. The capacity building of the parliamentary alliance is part of...

29-10-2021 Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Grow Asia, a multi-stakeholder partnership platform that brings together farmers, the private sector, governments, NGOs and key stakeholders to foster inclusive, resilient, and sustainable food systems in Southeast Asia, have joined forces to improve the productivity, profitability and environmental sustainability of smallholder agriculture.

FAO and Turkey signed a South-South and Triangular Cooperation agreement on deploying Turkish experts to projects sites in Central Asia as part of the FAO–Turkey Partnership Programme for food, agriculture, and forestry.

BRASÍLIA, 25 de octubre de 2021. El evento internacional 'Red de Alimentación Escolar Sostenible (RAES): Avances y Compromisos en América Latina y el Caribe' será un hito para reforzar el compromiso de las naciones de la región con la sostenibilidad de los programas de alimentación escolar, una política pública responsable de garantizar el derecho humano a la alimentación de al menos 85 millones de estudiantes latinoamericanos y caribeños. El evento virtual se realizará el 10 de noviembre, a las 11:00 (Hora de Chile), con traducción simultánea al inglés y español, y transmisión en vivo en las redes sociales YouTube UNFAO...

19/10/2021 - The 2021 International Seminar on Global Poverty Reduction Partnerships was held in Beijing on Oct. 19 and featured the “Post-COVID-19 Global Rural Development and Poverty Reduction: Innovations for Agri-Food Systems Transformation” theme.

08 October 2021 – Effective, shared decision-making and problem solving is essential for team success. This is why the South-South and Triangular cooperation division (PST), along with its Regional South-South and Triangular Cooperation staff from Africa (RAF), Asia and the Pacific (RAP) and the Near East (RNE), met this week to share their daily work findings, and to come up with innovative solutions. In his opening remarks, Mr Anping Ye, Director, PST, noted that PST’s South-South and Triangular Cooperation daily work and programmes can greatly benefit from the two-way exchange of knowledge, ideas and information flow between headquarters and regional SSTC...

 The second day of the 5-day WFF flagship event was entirely devoted to innovation, and began with young researchers pitching their projects at the Transformative Research Challenge (TRC) finals. The TRC event was the culmination of an international open call for innovative research ideas across the categories of Better Production, Better Nutrition, Better Environment and a Better Life.  From an initial applicant pool of 88 teams, 16 teams were chosen to be paired with mentors who helped them...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been very busy in the last few months developing new partnerships with the academia and research institutions. The FAO signed collaboration agreements with the Polytechnic University of Turin (POLITO), Italy; the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE), Hungary; the University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice (FFPW USB), Czechia; and the Shota Meskhia State Teaching University of Zugdidi (SMSTU), Georgia.