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South-south Cooperation
23 Jul 2020
23 July 2020 - The FAO-China South-South-Cooperation (SSC) Programme jointly with the FAO Global Action for Fall Armyworm (FAW) control and in close collaboration with FAO’s Office of Emergency and Resilience (OER) hosted last week the Programme’s first online joint formulation technical meeting.
In view of the challenges posed by the covid-19 pandemic, the Programme is adapting and innovating its work modalities, guided by its three core values: inspiration, inclusion, and innovation.
Representatives of four (4) host countries, namely, China, Ghana, Kenya, and Myanmar, and the Southern partner, China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA),...![منظمة الأغذية والزراعة تطلق البرنامج الجديد للاستجابة لجائحة كوفيد-19 والتعافي منها الذي يحدّد سبعة مجالات رئيسية ذات الأولوية](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_3_covid-response-pr.jpg)
Resource Partners
16 Jul 2020
وكالة الأمم المتحدة تدعو إلى إجراء عالمي مشترك منسّق لدعم الأغذية والزراعة
كشفت منظمة الأغذية والزراعة اليوم عن برنامجها الشامل الجديد للاستجابة لجائحة كوفيد-19 والتعافي منها الذي يرمي إلى الحؤول دون وقوع حالة طوارئ غذائية عالمية خلال جائحة كوفيد-19 وبعدها، مع العمل في الوقت ذاته على وضع استجابة إنمائية للأمن الغذائي والتغذية في الأجلين المتوسط إلى الطوي![The United Arab Emirates University and FAO collaborate to foster sustainable agriculture food safety and healthy diets](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_Giliuo Napolitano.jpg)
Fao-Academia
15 Jul 2020
With the aim to build capacities for research and development to achieve food security and nutrition, the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 15 July, 2020 to promote and disseminate best practices and innovations on sustainable agriculture, food safety and healthy diets.
Founded in 1976 by Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, UAEU is a public institution delivering undergraduate and graduate programmes at very high levels with the objective to promote knowledge creation, dissemination and...![Strengthening knowledge exchanges for food security and sustainable food systems](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_34849291362_6ce35bc15b_c.jpg)
Fao-Academia
12 Jul 2020
FAO and the University of Florence sign partnership agreement
Rome/Florence – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and University of Florence (UNIFI) have agreed to partner in order to strengthen knowledge and expertise exchanges, capacity development and joint research in the areas of food security and nutrition, rural poverty reduction and sustainable agri-food systems.UNIFI is one of the largest public higher education and research institutions in Italy. The university conducts research and offers degrees in a number of areas that are closely aligned to FAO’s mandate, such as management of natural resources, tropical rural development, development economics and local systems, traditional landscapes and...![2020: A year of compounding crises](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_story-rm-covid-48979121518_73a80b294a_o.jpg)
Resource Partners
11 Jul 2020
Pests, conflict and natural disasters during the COVID-19 pandemic are fatal combinations for our food systems
The weeks following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease have been filled with grave challenges and uncertainty. As the effects of border closures and movement restrictions become more visible in some countries and are slowly lessening in others, attention must be drawn to a vital component of global health that is under threat of crisis: our food systems.
As the Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Maximo Torero, said, “We fully agree with governments that first has to be health and the measures they are taking have to...