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South-south Cooperation
23 May 2024
23 May 2024, Kenya —  As a follow-up to last year’s scoping mission led by FAO’s South-South and Triangular Cooperation Division (PST) to Bangladesh concerning the PARTNER project, a delegation from the Ministry of Bangladesh, along with the FAO Representative and PST colleagues met in April in Nairobi, Kenya, to...
South-south Cooperation
20 May 2024
Five representatives from the governments of Chile, Costa Rica, Guyana, Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago are in China to learn about innovative solutions that the Asian country has applied in agriculture and rural areas. This exchange is carried out within the framework of the “South-South Cooperation project: Digital Transformation and Innovation in Agriculture”, led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the People’s Republic of China aimed at improving rural livelihoods in 12 countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
Parliamentary alliances
19 May 2024
Johannesburg, South Africa. Southern Africa's efforts to combat hunger and malnutrition and achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development could be strengthened by the formation of a regional parliamentary coalition on food security and nutrition.  In response to an invitation of the Southern Africa Development Community Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF), FAO experts were auditioned at the Statutory Meeting of the Standing Committee on Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR) of the sub-regional parliamentary body.  The audition aimed at enhancing the understanding of SADC parliamentarians on the role of parliamentary networks for food security, nutrition and food system transformation, and FAO’s approach to catalyze...
South-south Cooperation
15 May 2024
15/05/2024 Cabo Verde – Working under the One FAO unified vision, the South-South and Triangular Cooperation Division (PST) and the Office of Communication (OCC) of FAO embarked on a joint mission to Cabo Verde, to shed light on the success stories of some of the key development actors benefitting from an FAO-China South-South Cooperation (SSC) project in Cabo Verde. Boosting capacity development to support agrifood systems is vital to strengthen food and nutrition security.  This is especially true for Small Island Developing States such as Cabo Verde.  To this end, the FAO-China SSC project is supporting the Government of Cabo Verde in...
South-south Cooperation
10 May 2024
10/05/2024 Netherlands – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), The Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Saskatchewan University, the Ministry of Agriculture of Bangladesh and European Union, gathered this week in the WUR Campus, to discuss the future of agriculture in Bangladesh. A wide range of topics were discussed, such as agrifood systems transformation, sustainable development, boosting national productivity, improving supply chains, mechanization, training and capacity development. Agrifood systems transformation and rural development are vital topics aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Agenda 2030. As such, FAO’s South-South and Triangular Cooperation...
Fao-Academia
09 May 2024
Ithaca, New York - FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu visited Cornell University and its food and agriculture research hub, Cornell AgriTech – a place where science, innovation and agrifood system transformation meets. Qu was introduced to the Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and within it, the various departments dedicated to the study of agricultural sciences. Faculty members from programs such as the School of Integrative Plant Science, Department...
Parliamentary alliances
30 Apr 2024
Antigua, Guatemala – To jointly address critical challenges related to food and nutritional security and place this topic at the top of national and international priorities, the "Ibero-American Political-Academic Dialogue #FoodFirst" was held from April 24 to 26 in Guatemala.   The event was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Spanish Cooperation (through AECID and FIIAPP), and the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID).   It also received the support of the President of the Republic of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo de León, and the participation of delegations from the Parliamentary Front against Hunger in Latin America and...
Parliamentary alliances
26 Apr 2024
25/04/2024 Vientiane The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) is preparing for the implementation of ASEAN Guidelines on Promoting Responsible Investment in Food Agriculture and Forestry Sector (RAI), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and partners announced today. A two-day workshop was held from 24-25 April 2024, in Vientiane, marking a significant step...
Parliamentary alliances
19 Apr 2024
On 9-11 April 2024, FAO joined the spring meeting of the Commission for Economic, Social and Environmental Affairs (CAESE) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Francophonie (APF) hosted by the National Assembly of the Lao People's Democratic Republic in Luang Prabang. During the three-day event, FAO’s participation included facilitating field visits and providing capacity building on agroecology to more than 20 parliamentarians from nine countries, along with parliamentary officers and advisers, giving them the opportunity to visit two farms managed by young farmers. During the visits to the farms – which use agroecology principles and embrace agrifood practices embedding sustainability...
Parliamentary alliances
18 Apr 2024
Parliamentary perspectives were in the spotlight at a side event of the 2024 Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development in April, where Honourable Francoise Uwumukiza, representative of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), and Hon. Marie Jeanne Kouloumbou, President of the Environment, Food Safety and Sustainable Development Commission of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Congo shared insights.  Focusing on ending hunger and eradicating poverty through human rights-based food systems transformations placing human well-being at the centre, the multi-stakeholder dialogue was co-organized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the Food and Agricultural Organization of the...