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The FAO Partnerships and UN Collaboration Division presents a brief showcasing FAO’s partnership with the International Federation of Beekeeper's Associations Apimondia. 

The UN Rome-Based Agencies (RBAs) together with the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC) have agreed to mark the occasion of the 2024 UN Day for South-South Cooperation together, under the theme “Global partners, local actions: Strengthening nutrition and food security through Trilateral South-South Cooperation”. This joint celebration will affirm the partnership between the RBAs and the ABC, as they work together to finalise the details of the joint programme to support school feeding and family farming initiatives.

Brasilia, September 5, 2023 – For the third year, initiatives developed within the framework of the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Program were highlighted at the FAO Transforma fair, promoted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to showcase inspiring projects that have been carried out in recent years and could be replicated and/or scaled to other areas of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Bali, Indonesia. The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA), in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), co-organized the second Joint Event aimed at enhancing the effective implementation of the ASEAN Guidelines on Responsible Investment in Food, Agriculture, and Forestry (ASEAN RAI). This event, supported by the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia, with financial support from the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and the Swedish International Cooperation Agency (SIDA), brings together AIPA Member Parliaments and representatives from the private sector, civil society, and academia to foster collaboration on promoting responsible investment in these critical...

Nairobi/Rome — The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the European Union (EU) have signed a four-year 47 million euro programme designed to strengthen the resilience of pastoralists in Eastern Africa. The initiative, named “Pastoralism and Livestock Adaptation to Climate Change in Eastern Africa Programme (PLACE),” is designed to address the challenges in developing sustainable, climate-resilient pastoral systems across the environmental, economic and social dimensions of pastoralism in the face of a rapidly changing climate. “The EU has been a longstanding partner in Eastern Africa, especially in enhancing the...