26 July 2022 Rome/Amsterdam/Beijing—The second annual Joint Project Steering Committee (JPSC) meeting of the project “Up-scaling the FAO-China South-South Cooperation Programme through triangular cooperation with the government of the Netherlands (Part I)” was successfully organized by the South-South and Triangular Cooperation Division (PST) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).  The virtual meeting brought together the two donors, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China (MARA) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (MANF) of the Netherlands, and three implementation agencies from the two countries, to review progress in the implementation of the...

Rome/Kampala - Uganda is contributing nearly $10 million to the latest phase of a South-South Cooperation project focused on crop and animal production with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Chinese government after the first two phases yielded dramatic results, including a quadrupling of rice production per hectare. In one of the most significant contributions of its kind from a beneficiary country under the initiative, the Ugandan government is putting in $9 623 703 through a Unilateral Trust Fund (UTF). This comes in addition to $2 389 138 contributed by China to Phase III of...

It’s that time of year again! FAO’s Dryland Forestry and South-South and Triangular Cooperation teams have joined together with UNCCD in honour of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. This year, the day focused on an important topic: ‘Rising up from drought together’.  Droughts are among the greatest threats to sustainable development affecting both developing and developed countries, and this is especially true for dryland communities: droughts only exacerbate the land degradation already taking place in many dryland areas. Women are disproportionately affected by the negative impacts linked to this, but also hold the solutions.

17 June 2022, Kampala – Entrepreneurship plays a pivotal role in innovation, new agribusiness and generation of capital, but few African countries have policies, strategies or dedicated incubation support programmes. Ways to build up Africa’s capacities in agribusiness incubators and accelerators to find the continent’s next agribusiness success stories was the focus of a 5-day workshop in Kampala this week.

08/06/2022 The same sentiment was reflected in the consensus of the delegates to the National Policy Workshop organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of the Republic of Korea through the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) from 6 to 7 June. At the workshop, which was held virtually, FAO, MAFRA, and key stakeholders in the Philippines discussed ways to strengthen the Philippines’ rice value chains through FAO’s “Capacity Development and Experience sharing for Rice Value Chains through South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC)” project. The workshop also builds upon the Philippine Rice...