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28 November 2017 - Rome/Antalya. At the Global South-South Development Expo in Antalya (Turkey), the Rome-based Agencies (RBAs) presented todaya joint roadmap which aims to strengthen the three agencies’ collective efforts to facilitate South-South and Triangular Cooperation in the context of achieving progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 2, zero hunger, by 2030. “Considering our respective mandates, comparative advantages and distinctive strengths, all centered around the realm of food security and...

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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and FAO have announced a three-year Sustainable Agriculture for Economic Resiliency  project in South Sudan, to address widespread food and nutrition deficiencies and help communities become increasingly resilient to shocks including conflict and economic and environment-related shocks. More than three years of conflict have made South Sudan one of the world’s most food-insecure countries, with more than half the population facing life-threatening hunger. This project will target households experiencing stress and crisis levels of food insecurity, to prevent them from falling into worse levels of food insecurity—emergency and famine. The project will focus on...

Finding data on where resource partners are investing and identifying common priorities has now become much easier, with the help of a new online tool developed by FAO. The tool has gone live on Thursday, November 23 at 11am CST. Check out www.fao.org/aid-monitor. To explain more about how AIDmonitor works, we sat down with Vanja Bozic from TCR’s market intelligence team to find out more. Q: What is AIDmonitor? A: AIDmonitor is a new online data tool that makes it quick and easy to extract data on Official Development Assistance (ODA) flows, with a specific focus on agriculture, food security, nutrition and rural development activities. A...

El Foro regional de universidades para el fortalecimiento de las capacidades en agricultura (RUFORUM) ha lanzado una iniciativa titulada “Pasante en el terreno, entre la comunidad”  para dar oportunidades a estudiantes pos-grado en ciencias agrícolas de trabajar con las comunidades locales africanas. La iniciativa favorecerá la movilidad de los estudiantes y el fomento de actividades investigativas debido al intercambio del conocimiento y de la interacción entre jóvenes académicos y las comunidades rurales. Dr. Dan Gustafson, Vice-Director-General encargado de los Programas de la FAO, en su discurso titulado “El Papel de las Universidades para lograr la transformación agrícola...