Noticias

  The FAO Partnerships and UN Collaboration Division presents a brief showcasing FAO's partnership with the Asian Partnership for Development of Human Resources in Rural Areas (AsiaDHRRA). AsiaDHRRA has long been a partner of FAO, particularly active in the Asia and Pacific...

12 June 2024 Sanya, China – A workshop on China-Africa Agricultural and Technology Cooperation through the South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) was held in Sanya, Hainan, China, from 12 to 14 June 2024. The workshop, organized by the South-South and Triangular Cooperation Division (PST) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), convened the attendance of about 130 participants, including international organizations, government officials, representatives of research institutes from China and African countries. During the workshop participants were able to identify the priorities to advance agricultural science and technology cooperation...

Galway. Dr QU Dongyu, FAO Director-General, visited the University of Galway (UoG), one of Ireland’s top-rated universities for education and commitment to sustainable development. Founded in 1845, the University holds growing international prestige for the quality of its teaching and the global impact of its research, especially on issues of sustainability. The Ryan Institute Research Centre at the University of Galway, with postgraduate students of Agriculture,...

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) firmaron hoy un Memorándum de Entendimiento para potenciar el trabajo conjunto entre ambas organizaciones. El Subdirector General y Representante Regional de FAO para América Latina y el Caribe, Mario Lubetkin; y el Rector de la UPM, Guillermo Cisneros suscribieron el acuerdo en una ceremonia realizada en el Rectorado UPM-Campus Ciudad Universitaria.  Con este...

As part of a short series of publications highlighting some of FAO’s work with civil society organizations (CSOs), the FAO Partnerships and UN Collaboration Division is happy to present its most recent partnership brief on FAO’s partnership with Consumers International. 

In commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Voluntary Guidelines for the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food within National Food Security contexts, FAO, along with Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V., Right to Food Coalition Kenya and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), hosted on 9 May a virtual panel discussion entitled "Right to Food: Right to a Future", part of a series of workshops held during the 2024 UN Civil Society Conference and in lead up to the

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the People’s Republic of China are leading the South-South Cooperation project: Digital Transformation and Innovation in Agriculture to improve the rural livelihoods through digitalization in 12 countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

Geneva – On the occasion of his trip to Geneva for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the Conference on AI for Good, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu signed Memorandum of Understandings with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

The South-South Cooperation projects matches the technologies and experience of visiting countries with the needs and requests of host countries, transferring knowledge and expertise through partnership. China is passing on to Cabo Verde what it has learned in its own rural landscapes, remarkably similar to that of this small island’s interior.

24 May 2024 Nairobi, Kenya – Recognizing the importance of South-South and Triangular Cooperation, Indonesia is increasing its support in the agriculture sector of 14 African countries, namely Angola, Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. A capacity building training on climate-smart fisheries will take place this year to reinforce the countries’ knowledge and skills in these practices.   Indonesia’s first SSC activities can be traced back to the 1980’s, when the Coordinating Committee for International Technical Cooperation (CCITC) was...