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![Syrian women food producers learn new skills from Italian farmers](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_slow_food_syria.jpg)
27 Aug 2019
Slow Food and FAO team up to revive Syria’s agriculture
Rome/Damascus - Slow Food and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are organizing a study tour this week in northwest Italy for a group of Syrian small-scale women farmers.
The two organizations have teamed up to enhance the skills of small-scale women food producers from Syria - all with the aim...![FAO IFAD and WFP directors reaffirm commitment to RBA collaboration for South-South and triangular cooperation](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_RBA.jpg)
06 Aug 2019
6 August 2019
ROME, ITALY – The directors responsible for South-South and triangular cooperation (SSTC) at the three United Nations Rome-Based Agencies (RBAs) met at FAO headquarters to discuss collaborative strategies to leverage SSTC for sustainable development. The directors, Shengyao Tang (FAO), Ron Hartman (IFAD), Wei Wang (IFAD), and David Kaatrud (WFP), as well as Assistant Director-General Roberto Ridolfi (FAO), each expressed their...![Director-General QU visits OSS during greeting tour of FAO headquarters](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_12181g0241 - Copy.jpg)
06 Aug 2019
6 August 2019
ROME, ITALY – On the first day of his mandate, Director-General QU conducted a greeting tour of FAO headquarters, which included a visit to the Office of South-South and Triangular Cooperation (OSS). After extending a warm welcome, OSS Director Tang provided DG QU with a brief introduction of the work of OSS since its establishment as a dedicated office in January 2019, highlighting the Tenth Anniversary Event for the FAO-China SSC Programme, which will be held between 25 and 27 November 2019 in Kampala, Uganda.
![African parliamentarians push for women's empowerment as a means to improve food security](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_DSC_0468.jpg)
19 Jul 2019
Members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament, the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), and the Rwandan Parliament met in Kigali, Rwanda from 16 -19 July 2019, for a weeklong learning exchange which focused on mainstreaming gender into agriculture and strategies to improve food security.
The week featured a two-day capacity building workshop, designed to support parliamentarians in developing effective gender-responsive policies and legislation, and also included a high-level policy dialogue and field visits to Rwandan cooperatives devoted to soya bean and coffee production. Representatives of civil society organization representatives, intergovernmental organizations, think tanks, and the media also...