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![FAO helps strengthen community-based fisheries for the Pacific](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_large_Community Fishing Reserve Samoa.jpg)
11 Mar 2018
FAO has been recently approved two projects to strengthen community-fisheries in Tonga and Samoa. The aim of the projects is to strengthen the technical capacity for both countries to improve and streamline their community-based fisheries management programmes.![Mexico and FAO create fund for climate change adaptation and resilience in the Caribbean](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_Mexico.jpg)
08 Mar 2018
The fund - which involves US $ 4.3 million from Mexico - was made official today during the FAO Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean.
![FAO in Asia-Pacific re-affirms close collaboration with Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries on regional technical cooperation](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_MAFF.jpg)
07 Mar 2018
Bangkok, Thailand, FAO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, and representatives from Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), today re-affirmed their close collaboration on technical cooperation work in the region during an annual review of the programme.![No more hunger or poverty for the indigenous peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_Article - Indigenous People Latin America.jpg)
07 Mar 2018
FAO and the Fund for the Development of Indigenous Peoples for Latin America and the Caribbean signed an agreement at FAO's Regional Conference.
![FAO and Telefónica to boost use of cutting-edge digital technologies to assist farmers in developing countries](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_Telefonica.jpg)
05 Mar 2018
Internet of Things and Big Data to improve access to information related to climate and water management in the Central American Dry Corridor
FAO and Spain’s Telefonica, one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, have agreed to work together to leverage the use of cutting-edge digital technologies for agricultural development, food security and nutrition, and specifically, prepare and strengthen farmers in the face of extreme weather events related to climate change.
An agreement signed on 12 February 2018 by FAO Director General, José Graziano da Silva, and Telefonica’s Global Director of Public Affairs Strategy,...