This year marks the 75th anniversary of the creation of the United Nations and what better way to showcase South-South and Triangular cooperation achievements, than with a compilation of good practices on how SSTC is being leveraged to support the efforts of countries to accelerate the progress towards the attainment of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). About a month ago, the UN Office of South-South and Triangular Cooperation (UNOSSC) launched its volume three of “Good Practices in South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Sustainable Development”. This volume features 195 good practices, obtained by 77 partners including Member States,...

Los proyectos de cooperación Sur-Sur, +Algodón, en ejecución en países de América Latina; Algodón con Trabajo Decente, en ejecución en Paraguay, Perú, Malí y Mozambique; y Shire-Zambeze, en ejecución en Mozambique y Malawi, promueven el webinar Juntos Somos Más Algodón, en celebración del Día Mundial del Algodón - América Latina y África, el 7 de octubre (15h Chile/Brasil/Paraguay/Argentina; 13h. Ecuador/Colombia/ Perú; 20h. Mozambique). 

On 16 September, the United Nations Rome-based agencies − the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), IFAD and the World Food Programme (WFP) − celebrated the 2020 UN Day for South-South Cooperation with a virtual event hosted by IFAD. The theme for the celebration was The role of South-South and Triangular Cooperation in the transformation of food systems, in view of COVID-19.

22 September 2020, Rome - FAO welcomed an announcement today by Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China, that his country will support the UN agency's South-South Cooperation (SSC) efforts with an additional $50 million in funding. "We are very grateful for this new $50 million contribution announced by President Xi, as it provides a strong boost to the work of the FAO-China South-South Cooperation Programme," FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said.

FAO South-South Cooperation project began in late 2019 between China and Madagascar. Chinese experts on rice production came to Madagascar to introduce a greater-yielding type of rice, as well as to provide training to farmers on how to grow and harvest it.