Santiago de Chile, May 31- Within the framework of the Triangular South-South Cooperation, the team of the Regional Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), led by the Senior Policy Officer, Luiz Beduschi, and together with the technical experts of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China, met with the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Chile, Niu Qingbao, to present the project "Response and recovery to the impact of COVID-19 on rural livelihoods and food systems in the...

25-26 May 2023 Rome/Amsterdam/Beijing—The third annual Joint Project Steering Committee (JPSC) meeting: “Up-scaling the FAO-China South-South Cooperation Programme through triangular cooperation with the government of the Netherlands (Part I)” was held in Rome, Italy from 25 to 26 May 2023, in hybrid format.

25 May 2023, Rome - A new advocacy strategy to scale up dryland women’s participation in climate change policy discussions was officially validated by WeCaN members at the initiative’s first Global Gathering today.

23 May 2023 – A virtual international training curriculum consultation workshop, focusing on the rice value chain, was successfully organized by FAO under the framework of the "Capacity Development and Experience sharing for Rice Value Chains through South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC)" project, funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Republic of Korea (MAFRA). Since 2020, the project has been facilitating diverse SSTC exchanges among the three participating countries, Tanzania, Côte d'Ivoire, and The Philippines, in order to support the countries’ sustainable and effective rice value chains,  and has also convened  policymakers and experts from the respective, relevant...

12/05/2023 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) initiated a 1.5 million USD project via funding from China as part of the South-South Cooperation (SSC) programme, to improve the quality and value of Sri Lankan fruits in the global market by improving the production and commercialization of fruit value-chains in Sri Lanka.