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10/02/2021 The Chinese Lunar New Year is approaching, and this is also the time for Chinese families to reunite. However, the experts dispatched by the FAO-China South-South Cooperation (SSC) Programme Madagascar Project are still holding fast to their position in a foreign country.  Today, let us have a look at their stories. FAO-China South-South SSC Programme Madagascar Project Madagascar, an island country in the southwest of the Indian Ocean, faces the coast of the African continent across the Mozambique Channel. It is a country listed as one of the least developed countries in the world, with its food security situation being particularly worrisome...

L'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) a accepté aujourd'hui une contribution de 40 millions d'euros de l'Allemagne, qui permettra d'aider les agriculteurs et les pêcheurs à résister aux menaces telles que le covid-19 et les phénomènes climatiques extrêmes.

04/02/2021 Rome / Praia / Beijing - The FAO-China South-South Cooperation Programme has contributed $1.5 million to launch a project in the Republic of Cabo Verde, focused on capacity development for production systems to enhance food and nutrition security in the country.

On the 29th of January 2021, in the context of the initiative Making every voice count for adaptive management, FAO’s Dryland Forestry team and South-South and Triangular Cooperation Division launched the webinar series entitled Navigating the Participatory Approach. The webinars falling under this theme will take place on a bi-monthly basis in order to provide a common place for all countries and stakeholders involved to exchange their views, lessons learned, and experiences related to the learning-by-doing monitoring approach that this initiative offers. In compliance with the purpose of the initiative, the present webinar series is meant...

28/01/2021 À la lumière de la pandémie COVID-19, la République de Corée vise à sensibiliser sur la manière dont la coopération Sud-Sud et triangulaire (SSTC) peut renforcer les chaînes de valeur du riz, soutenant ainsi les moyens de subsistance des agriculteurs.

AO Director for Emergencies and Resilience, Dominique Burgeon and FAO Brussels Director Rodrigo de Lapuerta met with Belgian Director for Humanitarian Aid Transition, Erik de Maeyer and his team. Together, they reviewed the strong cooperation between the Kingdom of Belgium and FAO including Belgium’s support to anticipatory action, through the FAO Special Fund for Emergency Activities (SFERA) and the joint response to COVID-19 impacts and to the desert locust outbreak.

South–South Cooperation (SSC) is the mutual sharing and exchange of development solutions between developing countries, including knowledge, experiences and good practices, policies, technology and resources. The project in Uganda (Phases I and II) under the FAO-China SSC Programme is among the Programme’s longest and most successful collaborations. The publication Voices from the field: Personal stories from the FAO-China South-South Cooperation Project in the Republic of Uganda, contains the personal stories of some of the project participants, beneficiaries, and stakeholders. Their stories highlight the personal and community-level effects that the project has created. Their stories will also...

FAO hosted the virtual Resource Partner Strategic Dialogue of the Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) on 27 November 2020. All eight contributing FMM Resource Partners were represented at the meeting, including: Belgium, Flanders, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.

Globally there are estimated 1.21 billion people aged between 15 and 24, a number that will increase to 1.29 billion by 2030. In Africa only, more than 10 million young people are expected to enter the labour market every year for the next decade. This growing youth population, especially in developing countries, represents a great opportunity for harnessing a demographic dividend, but also economic and social challenges, which could lead to political instability or conflict. With the COVID-19 crisis exacerbating existing vulnerabilities of rural young women and men and inequalities, it is crucial to design inclusive...

L'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) s'est félicitée que le Conseil du Fonds pour l'environnement mondial (FEM) ait approuvé récemment 13 projets qu'elle mènera dans 16 pays, pour un montant total d'environ 78,5 millions d'USD. Cette décision, qui a été prise lors de la cinquante-neuvième réunion du Conseil du FEM, fait suite à celle de juin 2020 qui entérinait des versements de 176 millions d'USD au profit de projets menés par la FAO.