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![China signs $50 million South-South Cooperation agreement with FAO](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_e3bcb2b115.jpg)
07 Jun 2015
Focus on knowledge exchanges for sustainable agriculture, value chains
7 June 2015, Rome - China and FAO today signed a $50 million agreement to support developing countries in building sustainable food systems and inclusive agricultural value chains, recognizing the growing importance of collaboration between Southern countries in the fight against extreme hunger and poverty...![IKEA of Sweden and FAO to work together on sustainable forest management](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_IKEA.jpg)
03 Jun 2015
Partnership will help forest-reliant communities in Viet Nam access supply chains – Could spark similar efforts elsewhere
3 June 2015, Rome - FAO and IKEA of Sweden today agreed to begin working together on a forestry certification initiative aimed at promoting the sustainable management of forest plantations and empowering forest-reliant communities in Viet Nam.Following the signing...![FAO and Caritas advocate ending hunger by 2025](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_Caritas_Expo.jpg)
19 May 2015
FAO participates in the roundtable discussion “Caritas’ role to guarantee food security within the next five years” in Expo Milan 2015
19 May 2015, Milan – FAO joined the inaugural day for Caritas at the Expo Milan 2015. Rolf Hackbart, Deputy Director of the Office for Partnerships, Advocacy and Capacity Development, represented FAO and advocated the fight to end hunger together with Caritas.
The event focused on family and small-scale farming. “We need to change the way we relate to land. Family farming is so important to do this,” said Hackbart.
Hackbart encouraged the strengthening of rural livelihoods in terms of education, training, health and access to natural resources. “This is why we need to change the current system, geared...![Engaging academia to end hunger and poverty](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_JCU.jpg)
13 May 2015
FAO and the John Cabot University agree on “Communicating to Inspire Change: Food Security and Sustainability” a summer short course in July 2015 designed to provide University students with a solid and broad background on food security and sustainability
FAO and the John Cabot University agree on “Communicating to Inspire Change: Food Security and Sustainability” a summer short course in July 2015 designed to provide University students with a solid and broad background on food security and sustainability so that they may have the key informational foundations to develop methods and tools for “Communicating to Inspire Change.” The course will be in English.
During the second half of 2014, the Office for Corporate Communications in collaboration with the Office for Partnerships, Advocacy and Capacity Development (OPC), FAO, established linkages with a number of Universities worldwide, especially prior to the International...![Agreement between FAO and IULM](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_FAO-IULM-00.jpg)
28 Apr 2015
FAO announces new global flagship partnership with the International University of Languages and Media from Milan (Italy)
FAO is proud to announce a new global flagship partnership with IULM (International University of Languages and Media, Milan).
On Monday 20 April, Mario Lubetkin, Director of Corporate Communication at FAO signed a strategic agreement with IULM University Chancellor Professor Giovanni Puglisi. The alliance seals a marriage of top-level skills: FAO's widely recognized know-how in the field of nutrition and the educational excellence of IULM. In particular, in this the year of the Universal Exposition of Milan, FAO and the University will be offering thirty students the opportunity to follow a course titled “Communicating to Inspire Change: harnessing the bounties of...