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...

Brasília, 26 de julio del 2022 - El proyecto de alimentación escolar del Programa de Cooperación Internacional Brasil-FAO reunió por primera vez el comité técnico directivo de la Red de Alimentación Escolar Sostenible (RAES), el día 21 de julio. Participaron de manera virtual los puntos focales de la Red en más de 10 países de América Latina y el Caribe, donde se abordó el funcionamiento de la Red, sus objetivos, su forma de apoyar a los países y fueron debatidas las prioridades y expectativas de las naciones socias. 

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.