Two virtual capacity-building training courses on hybrid rice and hybrid foxtail millet were successfully organized by the South-South and Triangular Cooperation Division (PST) from 7-28 March 2022, in collaboration with two Chinese specialized institutions. The trainings brought together about 40 participants from six African countries namely the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Uganda, Namibia and Nigeria.  The first capacity-building training course on hybrid rice was organized in collaboration with the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center (HHRRC) of China from 7 to 16 March 2022. The training aimed at enhancing the capacity of government officials, researchers and rice experts from the six African...

El documento entregado por la Agencia Brasileña de Cooperación (ABC) a la FAO celebra la trayectoria de 14 años de la alianza entre Brasil y la FAO en la región.

Santiago, Chile – March 31, 2022 - During a bilateral meeting at the FAO Regional Conference, in Quito, Ecuador, held on March 31, the head of the Brazilian delegation for the event, Ambassador Ruy Pereira, Director of the Brazilian Cooperation Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (ABC/MRE) delivered a commemorative publication for two 14 years of the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Program to the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Qu Dongyu. The document “Brazil and FAO, the path to cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean: A historical alliance for promoting sustainable development and food security in...

17/03/2022 A l’initiative de l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’Alimentation et l’Agriculture, un atelier de partage d’expériences et de bonnes pratiques dans le secteur du riz a réuni à Yamoussoukro, une trentaine d’acteurs de la chaine de valeur rizicole. 10 mars 2022 - L'Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) avec l’appui du gouvernement de la République de Corée, à travers son ministère de l'Agriculture, de l'Alimentation et des Affaires rurales (MAFRA) a organisé le jeudi 10 mars à Yamoussoukro, République de la Côte d'Ivoire, un atelier national sur les politiques rizicoles.

On Tuesday, February 15, 2022, the Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management (MEV-CAM) initiative kicked off its participatory video (PV) training. The MEV-CAM initiative is led by the Dryland Forestry team at theFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and funded by the South-South Triangle Cooperation program. MEV-CAM aims to promote an inclusive and systemic learning-by-doing approach for monitoring and disseminating knowledge, lessons learnt, and experiences of the countries involved. It aims to document the baseline conditions and existing sustainable land and forest management practices in the different dryland landscapes by capturing and presenting them through a visual...