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![El Salvador Chile and FAO carry out joint actions to strengthen the Salvadoran fishing and aquaculture sector](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_ElSalvador_Aquaculture_21542.jpg)
South-south Cooperation
28 Aug 2017
The cooperation will generate new tools for the Monitoring and Evaluation of the country's fishing resources
28 August 2017, El Salvador - The technical team of the Centre for the Development of Fisheries and Aquaculture (CENDEPESCA) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG), shared a strengthening process to develop fisheries and aquaculture research, and for the application of sorting and management models of fishery resources.
The training was developed by the Under-Secretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism of Chile, within the framework of South-South Cooperation between this South American country and El Salvador, with the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
The purpose of...![Ghana will share knowledge with neighboring countries to reduce rural poverty](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_GhanaSP3Workshop2017_LEAP programme.jpg)
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...![FAO and UNICEF partner to show how social protection can end extreme poverty](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_pic_FAO-UNICEF.jpg)
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...![Syrian refugees host communities acquire work skills in agriculture](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_medium_17aug.jpg)
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.![FAO engages stakeholders in South-South Cooperation approach to boost rice production in Africa](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_2_Fil RIz (4).jpg)
South-south Cooperation
10 Aug 2017