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The FAO Brussels office met with His Excellency Mehmet Kemal Bozay, the Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to the European Union and his team to discuss the extensive collaboration between the Republic of Turkey, the European Union and the FAO.

بورت مورسبي/ روما – في إطار الجهود المبذولة بهدف دعم المزارعين أصحاب الحيازات الصغيرة وإنشاء سلاسل قيمة غذائية زراعية أكثر شمولاً في بابوا غينيا الجديدة، قامت المنظمة، التي تسهر على تنفيذ برنامج "STREIT" الذي يشترك في تمويله الاتحاد الأوروبي، بإشراك القطاع الخاص المحلي، في شراكة مع أعرق شركة وطنية لتصنيع الأغذية في البلاد، وهي شركة Paradise Foods المحدودة.ويتمثل هدف اتفاق مذكرة التفاهم الجديدة الموقّع اليوم في النهوض بسلاسل قيمة أكثر شمولاً واستدامة لإنتاج الكاكاو وخلق فرص لإدرار الدخل بالنسبة إلى المزارعين أصحاب الحيازات الصغيرة، عن طريق تحسين الجودة وتحسين النفاذ إلى الأسواق ووضع برامج لإصدار شهادات للمنتجات.

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today thanked Members of the Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM) for their financial support and invited them to strengthen their collaboration with the Organization to transform agri-food systems and build sustainable agriculture, particularly to fight the impacts

The 2020 International Seminar on Global Poverty Reduction Partnerships was held in Longnan city, Gansu province, China, on Nov. 24. More than 100 participants from governments, academia, international organizations, NGOs, and the private sector attended the seminar. High-level representatives from the UN, officials from developing countries in Latin America and Africa attended the seminar online.

Rome, 24 November 2020 - Within the framework of the FAO-China South-South Cooperation Programme, the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat is implementing a global project to help developing contracting parties strengthen their phytosanitary capacity and implement the IPPC.  Developing phytosanitary capacity is at the core of the IPPC mandate, as well as one of the three key pillars of the new IPPC Strategic Framework 2020-2030.  With a contribution of over USD 2 million from the FAO-China SSC Programme, this joint global project aims at promoting international cooperation among participating countries and raising awareness of plant health at the...

23 November 2020, Rome/Sudan – FAO-China South-South Cooperation Programme has contributed 1.5 Million USD to a south-south cooperation project (SSC project) aimed at enhancing production, productivity and competitiveness of the crops and livestock sectors in Sudan. Agriculture accounts for nearly one-third of the national Gross Domestic Product and around half of the national workforce is engaged in agricultural activities that mainly includes crop, livestock, fisheries, forestry production, and agro-processing industries.

New York, 19 November 2020 - A thematic good practices publication: “Good Practices in South-South and Triangular Cooperation in the Context of Food Security”, developed jointly by the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) and the Brazil Africa Institute (IBRAF) was successfully launched at a virtual event on 19 November 2020. This publication presents over 40 good practices to crucial challenges faced by developing countries in the area of food security (SDG 2).

Rome – Consumers can be the “catalyst” to drive the transformation of agri-food systems, influencing how we produce and consume food in an increasingly digital world, said the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today in a special address during the celebration of Consumers International’s 60th anniversary.  In his remarks, Qu congratulated Consumers International, a global federation of consumer groups, and called for even closer collaboration with FAO.  He stressed the need to promote healthy diets and to educate consumers enabling them to make healthier choices, to respect farmers’ work...

وافق مجلس الصندوق الأخضر للمناخ على ثلاثة مشاريع جديدة صممتها المنظمة في كل من الأرجنتين وغواتيمالا والسودان بقيمة إجمالية قدرها 158.6 ملايين دولار أمريكي بغرض التخفيف من وطأة انبعاثات غازات الاحتباس الحراري وتعزيز القدرة على الصمود في وجه تغير المناخ ومكافحة إزالة الغابات.

Following the June 2020 publication on case studies of successful partnership practices and important outcomes with featured academia and research institutions, a second series of case studies showcases four key partnerships with Agrinatura (Czechia), Texas A&M AgriLife (United States of America), Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy) and Université Laval (Canada). These key partnerships contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from different perspectives. Agrinatura ...