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BRASILIA, September 6, 2022 – “The school feeding policy is our pride. Because it is considered unquestionable, permanent and with multiple benefits“, highlighted the deputy director of the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC), ambassador Luiza Lopes da Silva, during the opening of the technical mission to Brazil of government representatives from 10 countries and institutions from Latin America and the Caribbean, to learn about the implementation of the Brazilian school feeding policy.

For the sixth consecutive year, the Rome Based Agencies (RBAs) are jointly organizing the celebration of the UN Day for South-South Cooperation (UN Day for SSC) – an annual event marked on 12 September 2022. This year, the UN Day for SSC also coincides with the Global South-South Development expo (GSSD-Expo), 12-14 September 2022, Bangkok, Thailand. They will use the occasion to present a joint field-level collaboration in South-South and Triangular Cooperation, in support of national home-grown school meals programmes, in line with the School Meals Coalition and the outcome of the UN Food Systems Summit. South-South and...

Bridgetown, Barbados - 30 August, 2022 Around the Caribbean and Latin America, the need to focus on the full value of water to society is becoming increasingly important, like in the rest of the world, as the resource continues to face supply and demand challenges. Raising awareness on this was a central goal of the ‘’Focus on the Americas’’ sessions at the Stockholm International Water Institute’s World Water Week held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 24 August to 1 September 2022, in a hybrid online/in-person format.

Rome, Italy Land degradation and desertification in the Mediterranean is becoming increasingly pronounced due to climate change and increasing pressures on agricultural and forest land. This has negative implications for ecosystem services, climate change mitigation, food security and the social, economic and political sectors. The combination of all of these factors requires concerted efforts toward sustainable land and water management. With...

Brasília, 15 de agosto del 2022 - Durante un panel internacional en el Encuentro Nacional de Catastro Rural, promovido por el Instituto Nacional de Colonización y Reforma Agraria (Incra), en la ciudad de Brasília, Brasil, fueron presentado los principales hallazgos del estudio “El estado del arte de registro y catastro de tierras en América Latina”, desarrollado en el marco del proyecto Apoyo a la gobernanza de la tenencia responsable de la tierra en América Latina y el Caribe, que integra la acciones del Programa de Cooperación Internacional Brasil-FAO.