For the sixth consecutive year, the Rome Based Agencies (RBAs) are jointly organizing the celebration of the UN Day for South-South Cooperation (UN Day for SSC) – an annual event marked on 12 September 2022. This year, the UN Day for SSC also coincides with the Global South-South Development expo (GSSD-Expo), 12-14 September 2022, Bangkok, Thailand. They will use the occasion to present a joint field-level collaboration in South-South and Triangular Cooperation, in support of national home-grown school meals programmes, in line with the School Meals Coalition and the outcome of the UN Food Systems Summit. South-South and...

Bridgetown, Barbados - 30 August, 2022 Around the Caribbean and Latin America, the need to focus on the full value of water to society is becoming increasingly important, like in the rest of the world, as the resource continues to face supply and demand challenges. Raising awareness on this was a central goal of the ‘’Focus on the Americas’’ sessions at the Stockholm International Water Institute’s World Water Week held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 24 August to 1 September 2022, in a hybrid online/in-person format.

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...