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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; monitoring and prevention of AMR; and strengthening animal health through food chain preparedness.

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.

Swiss startups, SMEs, large-scale industry, and academia are leaders in science, technology, and innovation, including in the agrifood sector. These actors are united under Swiss Food & Nutrition Valley (SFNV), a purpose-driven, nationwide, multistakeholder, not-for-profit association that strengthens and promotes food system innovation. FAO and SFNV aim to establish mechanisms for identifying, developing, refining, and scaling innovative solutions in the areas of nutrition and healthy diets, with the objective of contributing to the transformation of agrifood systems by addressing root causes and mitigating the consequences of challenges within these systems.

FAO and The Pew Charitable Trusts agreed to promote their common objectives of the long-term conservation and sustainable use of aquatic resources. Through this joint collaboration, more states will be assisted to effectively implement measures and improve their monitoring, control and surveillance of fishing operations in order to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.