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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).

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...

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...

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...

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...