The OCOP Secretariat organized the Second National Coordination Meeting for the implementation of the One Country One Priority Initiative (OCOP)

On 28-30 November 2022, the FAO Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP) and the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS) jointly organized three online training sessions on the Sustainable Development of Special Agricultural Products (SAPs) for the Implementation of the FAO Global Action on OCOP in the Tropics. 

The OCOP Secretariat held the Fifth Regional Coordination Meeting for the implementation of the FAO One Country One Priority (OCOP) Initiative across the five FAO regions.

Over 70 nations from five FAO regions designated as potential project countries with the first five demonstration countries named – Bangladesh, Egypt, Malawi, Trinidad and Tobago and Uzbekistan.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the Near East and North Africa has launched today the implementation of the Global Action on Green Development of Special Agricultural Products: One Country One Priority Product (OCOP) in the region. 

Countries across Asia and the Pacific are joining an initiative to promote and showcase the ‘best of the best’ of their special agricultural products – a move designed to ensure a high level of participation from smallholders to producers to exporters and others all along the value chain.

Africa becomes first region to launch new initiative to drive green production. 

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has started implementing a new initiative helping countries promote their most distinctive agricultural products, in an important step towards transforming agri-food systems.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today launched its Global Action on Green Development of Special Agricultural Products: One Country One Priority Product (OCOP). This Action aims to develop green and sustainable value chains for special agricultural products, support small and family farmers reap the full benefits of a global market and ultimately help the transformation of current agri-food systems and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Recording of the launch event of the Global Action on Green Development of Special Agricultural Products: One Country One Priority Product (OCOP)