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08 October 2021 – Effective, shared decision-making and problem solving is essential for team success. This is why the South-South and Triangular cooperation division (PST), along with its Regional South-South and Triangular Cooperation staff from Africa (RAF), Asia and the Pacific (RAP) and the Near East (RNE), met this week to share their daily work findings, and to come up with innovative solutions. In his opening remarks, Mr Anping Ye, Director, PST, noted that PST’s South-South and Triangular Cooperation daily work and programmes can greatly benefit from the two-way exchange of knowledge, ideas and information flow between headquarters and regional SSTC...

 The second day of the 5-day WFF flagship event was entirely devoted to innovation, and began with young researchers pitching their projects at the Transformative Research Challenge (TRC) finals. The TRC event was the culmination of an international open call for innovative research ideas across the categories of Better Production, Better Nutrition, Better Environment and a Better Life.  From an initial applicant pool of 88 teams, 16 teams were chosen to be paired with mentors who helped them...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been very busy in the last few months developing new partnerships with the academia and research institutions. The FAO signed collaboration agreements with the Polytechnic University of Turin (POLITO), Italy; the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE), Hungary; the University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice (FFPW USB), Czechia; and the Shota Meskhia State Teaching University of Zugdidi (SMSTU), Georgia.

Se trata de una victoria impulsada por el Frente Parlamentario contra el Hambre en América Latina y el Cariga y apoyada por la FAO, la Cooperación Española y la AMEXCID.  El Pleno del Congreso de Guatemala aprobó el Decreto 12-2021, que reforma la Ley de Alimentación Escolar, con un aumento de Q6 diarios por cada uno de los alumnos y alumnas del sistema escolar público, en los niveles de preprimaria y primaria. Las y los diputados también establecieron que a partir del ejercicio fiscal 2023 se...

05/10/2021 Bangkok The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today formalized its partnership with one of Asia’s leading Academic Institutes aiming at consolidating, developing and detailing their cooperation and effectiveness to achieve their common objectives in the field of sustainable development of the Asia and Pacific region. The