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![FAO and Mabunduka Agro Farmers Association unite to boost green job opportunities in the agricultural sector in Sierra Leone](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_Abdulai-Bangura.jpg)
20 Dec 2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Mabunduka Agro Farmers Association have signed a Letter of Intent on 7 December expressing their interest in working together on green job opportunities in agriculture in Sierra Leone.
While agriculture remains the largest employer in the world, it is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, the largest user, and a significant polluter of water, and can cause both land degradation and loss of biodiversity. However, the agriculture sector can be part of the solution. Creating green jobs...![FAO and the International Science Council join forces to strengthen science-policy interfaces for agrifood systems](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_Maribel.jpg)
14 Nov 2023
In a momentous move towards enhancing transformative partnerships, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Science Council (ISC) signed a Letter of Intent on October 31 to bolster science-policy interfaces for agrifood systems.
Collective expertise of FAO and ISC will accelerate progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly in eradicating hunger, malnutrition, and poverty.
“Collaborations like this one between FAO and ISC are key to the...![FAO publishes its 2022 progress report on partnerships with non-state actors](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_1_FAOMasudur-Rahaman.jpg)
31 Oct 2023
Achieving the objectives of the FAO Strategic Framework 2022-31 and the global goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda requires high levels of collaboration across the board. Strategic partnerships, particularly with non-state actors (NSAs), are vital and bring transformative, added value to FAO's work.
FAO continues to strengthen its engagement with NSAs – including civil society organizations (CSOs), cooperatives and producers’ organizations, parliamentarians, Indigenous Peoples, academia and research institutions (ARIs).
The Partnerships with Non-State Actors at FAO: Progress report 2022 outlines FAO’s work with these key actors over the...![FAO and the World Rural Forum renew partnership](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_CSO.png)
05 Oct 2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Rural Forum (WRF) have renewed their partnership through a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), reaffirming their shared belief that family farmers play a crucial role in achieving agrifood systems transformation and the goals of the 2030 Agenda.
This new MoU provides a three-year framework that reinforces the two organizations’ joint efforts under the umbrella of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019–2028 (UNDFF), to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and FAO’s vision for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and...![FAO and AsiaDHRRA extend partnership in support of rural organizations in Asia and the Pacific](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_arti3.jpg)
24 Aug 2023
In August 2023, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA) have renewed their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for an additional five years. Together, the parties have recommitted to support rural organizations and family farmers’ organizations on the road to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
FAO and AsiaDHRRA have a long history of collaboration, preceding the formalization of the partnership via MoU...