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![FAO supporting Bolivia’s bid to access climate funding via UN fund](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/medium_Morales and Da Silva.jpg)
16 Feb 2017
FAO is assisting Bolivia in its effort to access financial support for improved water management programs in those areas of the Andean nation that have been hardest hit by prolonged drought.
At a meeting here today, FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva and Bolivian President Evo Morales agreed to jointly submit a technical proposal to the UN’s Green Climate Fund requesting $250 million in support for efforts to reduce the impacts of climate change on food security and rural livelihoods in Bolivia.![FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific re-affirms close collaboration with Government of Japan on technical cooperation in the region](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/medium_Japan_medium_20170215-MAFF.jpg)
15 Feb 2017
FAO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and representatives from Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) today re-affirmed their close collaboration on technical cooperation work in the region during an annual review of the programme.![FAO and ECA Partnership towards a hunger free and prosperous Africa](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/medium_1_RAF_ECA partnership.jpg)
31 Jan 2017
In an effort to alleviate the challenges that millions of African families face from abject poverty, malnutrition and food insecurity, FAO and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) signed a new partnership agreement that paves the way for a stronger cooperation in fostering sustainable agriculture.![FAO and Japan hold high-level discussions to bolster a strong partnership](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/medium_Japan12128a1741.jpg)
24 Jan 2017
FAO today hosted a high-level delegation from Japan in a bid to bolster both sides of a strong relationship between the UN agency responsible for fighting hunger and its second-largest donor.
Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries sent a number of senior officials to the meeting, one of a series aimed at crafting a strategic plan for further advancing the key partnership. The broader Japanese delegation underscored the increasingly geopolitical nature of assuring food security and putting agriculture on a sustainable and responsible footing in an era of globalization and border-hopping challenges such as...![Canada adds extra funds for key FAO work on food safety](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/medium_CanadaPO_GER_20170120_0003.jpg)
23 Jan 2017
Canadatoday announced it will contribute an additional $1 million to international bodies that develop the standards for food safety and plant protection.
Lawrence MacAulay, Canada's Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, told FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva of the decision while both leaders were in Berlin attending high-level meetings including Sunday's meeting of agriculture ministers from the G20 countries.