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FAO and Biodiversity Partnership Mesoamerica (BPM) aim to foster innovation on and to strengthen experiences focused on the sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity for food and agriculture in Central America. The collaboration will promote joint, coordinated and complementary actions that will directly support rural small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), producer organizations, cooperatives and associations to increase their economic opportunities through sustainable and resilient value chains that are based on biodiversity products and services. 

This partnership aims to provide expertise and evidence-based materials, including FAO data and statistics, for the making of a film. The partnership covers topics such as, but not limited to, water-related activities to promote agrifood systems transformation to achieve the Four Betters (better production, better nutrition, better environment and better life). Among other objectives, it seeks to undertake initiatives and exchange resources to promote and disseminate best practices in water management.

This partnership will support regional, national and local financial institutions in boosting agricultural financing for sustainable agrifood systems investment, including financing to smallholder and family farmers and small and medium agrifood enterprises. The collaboration also envisages support to private investment for sustainable agrifood systems, including policy support and promotion of innovative financing approaches such as blended finance. Other potential engagement areas include the Food Coalition and the Hand-in-Hand Initiative. The closer collaboration between the two entities will provide an opportunity to mobilize financial resources, policy assistance support and technical expertise to contribute to agri-food systems transformation with large scale impacts...

FAO and CCOIC share common objectives with regard to end poverty and hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture, thus to make livelihoods inclusive, safe and sustainable. Both parties intend develop and detail their cooperation and effectiveness in the following fields: aligning Chinese businesses with the SDGs by 2030; capacity building on sustainable food system and agricultural development; knowledge sharing and exchange of information; and promoting cooperation on resilience building and coping with disasters and fragility.

The partnership will allow COLEAD and the IPPC Secretariat to further shared goals and objectives with regards to i) enhancing global food security and increasing sustainable agricultural productivity, ii) protecting the environment from the impacts of plant pests, and iii) facilitating safe trade, development, and economic growth. The collaboration will focus on strengthening phytosanitary capacities: at a national level in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, and at a global level through training materials, workshops, communication and advocacy.