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![Representantes de gremios algodoneros se reúnen para dialogar sobre la reactivación económica y social durante y post pandemia](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_medium_POST (Esp).png)
14 Apr 2021
Santiago de Chile, 14 de abril de 2021 – Para identificar las actividades de las organizaciones gremiales algodoneras en los países socios en el contexto de pandemia y post pandemia con miras a la reactivación económica y social, el Foro Regional Algodonero de los Países Socios de la Cooperación Sur-Sur Trilateral +Algodón promueve, el día 22 de abril, la Videoconferencia: Encuentro de Organizaciones Gremiales. El encuentro virtual también busca fortalecer el intercambio entre los gremios y sus acciones en los diferentes países. La videoconferencia tendrá transmisión en vivo por las redes sociales: Twitter FAOBrasilCoop y canal de FAO en YouTube,...![Central American MSMEs will receive support for the facilitation of agri-food trade innovation and technology](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_CEPROMYPE2.jpg)
09 Apr 2021
09/04/2021 Other thematic areas in which they will receive support are family farming and nutritional food security; agricultural health and food safety; climate change and comprehensive risk management; competitiveness, trade and agribusiness, among others.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Regional Center for the Promotion of MSMEs (CENPROMYPE-SICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the objective of promoting joint, coordinated and complementary actions that contribute to the development and sustainability of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) sector, especially those MSMEs related to the agri-food sector.
This cooperation framework between FAO and CENPROMYPE will contribute...![Construction de la gouvernance alimentaire de Brazzaville grâce à une coopération Sud-Sud avec les villes de Douala et de Pointe-Noire](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_medium_braz.jpg)
08 Apr 2021
08/04/2021 Brazzaville, capitale de la République du Congo, connait une croissance démographique sans précédent ; sa population a augmenté de 134% entre 2000 et 2020 pour atteindre 2 388 M habitants, alors que la progression de la population de la République du Congo se limitait à 76% sur la même période. Ainsi en 2020, Brazzaville concentre 42% de la population nationale.![FAO launches new virtual course to develop national capacities in fighting a transboundary animal disease](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_Group_photo_Opening_webinar_AAT.png)
07 Apr 2021
7 April 2021, Harare - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has launched a new online course on developing national atlases of tsetse fly and African animal trypanosomosis (AAT) to promote the control of high impact Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs). Trypanosomosis is a blood-borne parasitic disease of cattle spread through the bite of a tsetse fly. A tsetse and AAT atlas is a national-level information system on the occurrence of the pest and disease in space and time. The course has been developed by the Programme Against African Trypanosomosis (PAAT), and it is hosted by the Virtual...![MEXICO-CARICOM-FAO launch School Feeding sub-project in six Caribbean countries](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_MEXICO_article.png)
06 Apr 2021
6 April 2020, Mexico - Mexico, CARICOM and FAO have organized a regional meeting to launch a sub-project on “Resilient school feeding programs” that aims at strengthening the capacities of institutions and stakeholders to implement resilient and sustainable National School Feeding Programs in Bahamas, Belize, St Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, this initiative has been reformulated to place greater focus towards supporting participating countries in their responses to safeguard livelihoods, ensure adequate access to healthy food and ensure sustainable management of natural resources.
The Mexico-CARICOM-FAO Initiative began its implementation in...