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09/02/2023 Luang Namtha Province, Lao People’s Democratic Republic- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through its Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD), kicked off a two-week training course on animal quarantine management in Sing District, a border area between Lao People’s Democratic Republic and China. The training course aimed to accelerate safer cattle trade between the two countries and improve cattle export to China.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and CESVI have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) expressing their interest in working together to strengthen country level emergency response capacities, with a focus on environmental rehabilitation and disaster risk reduction, as well as support for livestock owners and fishing communities. CESVI has a history as a strategic implementing partner for FAO country level projects. In 2022, CESVI became a global partner of the FAO-World Food Programme (WFP) led Food Security Cluster,...

Rome – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO) have renewed their partnership through a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), reaffirming their shared belief that farmers, especially family and small-scale farmers, play a crucial role in achieving agrifood systems transformation and the goals of the 2030 Agenda. FAO and WFO have a long-standing collaboration, dating back to the International Year of Family Farming in 2014, followed by the signing of their first MoU in 2018. Joint work has focused on improving the livelihoods of family farmers; increasing farmers’ technical...

24 January 2023, Cairo – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has met with the Egyptian Agency of Partnership for Development (EAPD) to discuss a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at strengthening their efforts in promoting south-south and triangular cooperation (SSTC) to boost the transformation of agrifood systems, improve food security, and support the global efforts towards the 2030 Sustainable Agenda.

20/01/2023 The Food Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Government of the Republic of Uganda and the Government of the People’s Republic of China have launched the third phase of the FAO-China-Uganda South-South Cooperation (SSC) project. It will benefit from funding worth USD 12.6 million aimed to support the development of the agriculture sector in Uganda. Almost USD 10 million were committed by Uganda and USD 3 million by China, which are held in Trust Funds in FAO. Uganda’s contribution is one of the most significant contributions by a Least Developed Country as a beneficiary nation, for a SSC...