Collaboration with partners in FAO's countries is crucial to achieving the organization's overarching goal of defeating hunger and malnutrition worldwide. The FAO country office in Lebanon builds strategic partnerships with key actors, including public institutions and international organizations as well as non-state actors such as civil society organizations (CSOs), academia, private sector, farmers associations and cooperatives with the core objective of implementing the Country Programming Framework 2023–2026 and the 2030 Agenda.