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FAO and IKEA intend to promote joint work on a forestry certification initiative aimed at promoting the sustainable management of forest plantations and empowering forest-reliant communities in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

The partnership will strengthen impact of public-private collaboration in support of all three pillars of sustainable development – economic, social and environmental – with an important emphasis on both mitigating climate change and adapting and strengthening the resilience of agrifood systems and natural resources against the impacts of climate change. The partners will promote responsible investment and sustainable strategies for agrifood system transformation in light of national goals, needs and priorities, and facilitate private sector engagement through strategic partnerships in national programmes supported by the Hand-in-Hand (HIH) Initiative.

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.

FAO and Paradise Foods Ltd. aim to promote more inclusive and sustainable cocoa production value chains while creating income generation opportunities for smallholder farmers in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The partnership will support smallholder farmers by improving the quality of their products, facilitating better market access and developing product certification schemes.