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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.