Noticias
South-south Cooperation
31 Aug 2017
Se identificaron las oportunidades y las acciones concretas necesarias para el fortalecimiento del sector, a partir del desarrollo de una red de intercambio Sur-Sur entre países de los dos continentes
Maceió, Alagoas, 31 de agosto de 2017 - Alrededor de 100 personas, entre ellos 32 representantes latinoamericanos de seis países y 36 africanos de 14 países africanos, participaron del diálogo: Desafíos y Oportunidades para la Cooperación Sur-Sur en la cadena de valor del Algodón, que se llevó a cabo paralelo al 11º Congreso Brasileño del Algodón, en la ciudad de Maceió, Alagoas, Brasil.
El diálogo, organizado por la Agencia Brasileña de Cooperación (ABC/MRE), Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT), promovió el intercambio de experiencias...
South-south Cooperation
28 Aug 2017
La cooperación generará generación de nuevas herramientas de seguimiento y evaluación de los recursos pesqueros del país
28 de agosto de 2017, El Salvador - El equipo técnico del Centro de Desarrollo de la Pesca y la Acuicultura (CENDEPESCA), del Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG), participó de un proceso de fortalecimiento para desarrollar investigaciones pesqueras y acuícolas, y para la aplicación de modelos de ordenación y manejo de los recursos pesqueros.
La capacitación se desarrolló por parte de la Subsecretaría de Pesca y Acuicultura del Ministerio de Economía, Fomento y Turismo de Chile, en el marco de la Cooperación Sur-Sur entre este país sudamericano y El Salvador, con el apoyo de la Organización...
South-south Cooperation
28 Aug 2017
FAO facilitates knowledge exchange through South-South Cooperation schemes
Accra, 28 August 2017 – FAO and Ghana have created a knowledge exchange platform (KEP) for reducing rural poverty to share the national knowledge on rural poverty reduction (programmes and initiatives) with neighbouring countries through South-South Cooperation (SSC) schemes.
Ghana has recently made great progress in reducing rural poverty and looks forward to share some of their successful experiences that could benefit neighbour countries facing similar challenges as those they have recently overcome.
“Solutions that work best in one southern country are of greater possibility of working well in another,” said Dr Abebe Haile Gabriel, Deputy Regional Representative for Africa and FAO...
Resource Partners
24 Aug 2017
The two UN Organizations join forces to prove common perceptions on cash transfers are wrong, showing how social protection can help achieve SDG1 and SDG2.
FAO and UNICEF are strengthening their partnership to promote the expansion of social protection as one pathway out of poverty. A new joint study refutes some of the misperceptions and criticisms around cash transfers in the context of sub-Saharan Africa, the region currently home for three quarters of world’s extreme-poor. These myths include: “cash is wasted on alcohol and tobacco”, “transfers are just hand-outs”, “cash creates dependency”, “transfers lead to negative economic...
Resource Partners
17 Aug 2017
A new FAO project targets Syrian refugees and host communities in Turkey, for development of vocational skills in the agriculture sector. The aim is to provide employment opportunities for some 900 people in five provinces of Southern Turkey: Adana, Gaziantep, Isparta, Mersin and Sanliurfa.
With a budget of US$ 1.7 million, the project is financed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), with Turkey’s Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock as lead executing partner and FAO as implementing agency.