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The partnership between FAO and the Global Pulse Confederation (GPC) aims to promote the sustainable production, consumption and international trade of pulses for improving food and nutrition security and sustainability of agricultural systems.FAO and GPC work together on joint public awareness initiatives; in supporting joint assessments and case studies to foster investments on pulses; and in the promotion of multi-stake holder dialogues. Through the partnership, FAO and GPC have also agreed to collaborate on knowledge development and improving understanding of the impact of antimicrobial use and anti-microbial resistance (AMR) in crop production on food safety and human health.  

This partnership takes a coordinated approach to increasing the productivity, profitability and environmental sustainability of smallholder agriculture, leveraging Grow Asia’s network of farmers, the private sector, governments, NGOs and other key stakeholders.  The partners will focus on strengthening the capacity of smallholder value chains and agribusinesses, supporting women’s economic empowerment, enabling greater participation of the private sector in policy dialogues, promoting responsible investments in food, agriculture and forestry, and contributing to the ASEAN Action Plan on Fall Armyworm Control.

The MoU between FAO and HELP Logistics (subsidiary of Kühne-Stiftung/Kuehne Foundation) provides a framework for collaboration in the area of humanitarian logistics. It focuses primarily on preparedness and logistics in emergency and protracted crises contexts, strengthening and promoting joint actions to assess food value chains, build FAO's capacity and optimize logistics procedures to reduce costs and increase resilience.

The collaboration between FAO and the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) aims to promote the agricultural cooperativism model to eliminate hunger, address food insecurity and malnutrition, reduce rural poverty, and ensure the sustainable management and utilization of natural resources.

Mars Inc. has been a longstanding private sector partner of FAO since 2015 in the area of improving food safety and quality in agriculture production. Under this Memorandum of Understanding, FAO and Mars will jointly work to exchange knowledge and information to support science-based decision-making on food safety.