The United Nations General Assembly declared 2022 as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA).  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is the lead agency for celebrating the year in collaboration with other relevant organizations and stakeholders.  IYAFA 2022 has provided a unique opportunity to highlight the potential and diversity of small-scale artisanal fisheries and aquaculture, and underline the unique benefits of engaging in partnerships and cooperation with fishers, fishfarmers and fishworkers.  IYAFA 2022 has engaged a wide range of actors, including civil society organizations, in its many activities.  One such organization is the...

On 16 June 2022, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and of the Nature Conservancy (TNC) formalized their partnership through the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed by QU Dongyu, Director General, FAO and Jennifer Morris, CEO, TNC.   FAO and TNC have a long-standing collaboration, having worked jointly on a number of projects and co-developed a series of policy...

In order to promote some of the work FAO has been undertaking in partnership with civil society organizations (CSOs), the CSO Partnerships team of the FAO Partnerships and UN Collaboration Division has been putting together a small series of short publications, highlighting some of the successful collaborations of recent years. The third brief of the...

Civil society organizations (CSO) from Asia and the Pacific have concluded a two-day virtual meeting in preparation for their participation in a major multilateral conference aimed at charting a course for the region’s food security and agrifood systems transformation