Rome/Freetown - Sierra Leone, FAO and Viet Nam today signed a South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) agreement aimed at developing the rice sector in the African country. The new project has an estimated budget of $5 million to be implemented through a Unilateral Trust Fund (UTF) from Sierra Leone.

02/06/2023 Against a backdrop of rising food insecurity and malnutrition, in great part driven by conflict, extreme weather events, and economic downturns and slowdowns, the transformation of our agrifood systems has never been more urgent. FAO believes that South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) is a driving force in global agricultural development and in the rethinking of...

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 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...