05/03/2025 Rome, Italy – FAO’s Director of the South-South and Triangular Cooperation Division (PST), Mr Anping Ye, met this week with UN Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) Director, Ms Dima Al-Khatib, to discuss new and ongoing fruitful joint collaborations on South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC). Since 1974, UNOSSC has been promoting, coordinating and supporting South-South and triangular cooperation within the United Nations system and globally.  FAO’s portfolio of SSTC projects has also dramatically grown in recent years, in line with the increasing institutionalization of SSTC in the Organization’s programme. The two organizations discussed a series of important joint collaborations.  UNOSSC has recently launched a...

Rundu, Namibia – As part of the ongoing "South-South Cooperation (SSC) between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Namibia on Agriculture and Fishery Production", farmers from the Sambyu community in Kavango East Region participated in an intensive four-day training on sustainable horticulture production. Held from 18-21 February 2025 at the Sambyu Traditional Authority Hall, the training aimed to equip farmers with knowledge and skills to enhance productivity and resilience in horticultural farming.

Effective food safety management in NENA requires to adopt innovation and science-based approach, including updated food legislation, competent food safety institutions, effective enforcement capabilities, robust monitoring and surveillance programs, reliable data generation mechanism for risk analysis, and reliable conformity assessment services including laboratory system. However, there are still substantial challenges in coordination to access fit-for-purpose academic programs, risk assessment initiatives and data, and insufficient training for agrifood system actors that hinder the region’s capacity to adopt effective risk management to ensure the safety and quality of traded food. In response to these challenges, and through South-South Triangular Cooperation (SSTC), the FAO...

Rome, 14/02/2025 – A high-level meeting was held between Mr Anping Ye, Director of the South-South and Triangular Cooperation Division (PST), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Hon. Thabo Mofosi, Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition of the Kingdom of Lesotho. Minister Mofosi was accompanied by H.E. Mr. Thesele John Maseribane, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Lesotho in Italy.  The meeting served as a follow-up to an earlier discussion between the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu and His Majesty King Letsie III of the Kingdom of Lesotho, which emphasized the critical role of potato...

In Viet Nam, the Director-General met with the Prime Minister, H.E. Pham Minh Chinh, during which the Director-General commended the progress achieved by Viet Nam in its development since the adoption of the Đổi Mới policy, and invited the country to share its good practices in agriculture development through FAO’s South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) platform with less developed countries in Southeast Asia, Africa and the rest of the world. The Prime Minister expressed his gratitude for the solid cooperation between FAO and Viet Nam and invited FAO to further support Viet Nam in restructuring its agricultural sector to focus...