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![South-South and Triangular Cooperation: a driving force for global agricultural development and the transformation of agrifood systems](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_ssc.jpeg)
02 Jun 2023
02/06/2023
Against a backdrop of rising food insecurity and malnutrition, in great part driven by conflict, extreme weather events, and economic downturns and slowdowns, the transformation of our agrifood systems has never been more urgent. FAO believes that South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) is a driving force in global agricultural development and in the rethinking of...31 May 2023
Santiago de Chile, May 31- Within the framework of the Triangular South-South Cooperation, the team of the Regional Office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), led by the Senior Policy Officer, Luiz Beduschi, and together with the technical experts of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China, met with the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Chile, Niu Qingbao, to present the project "Response and recovery to the impact of COVID-19 on rural livelihoods and food systems in the...![Third Joint Project Steering Committee Meeting of the FAO-China-Netherlands Triangular Cooperation Project](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_Picture2.jpg)
26 May 2023
25-26 May 2023 Rome/Amsterdam/Beijing—The third annual Joint Project Steering Committee (JPSC) meeting: “Up-scaling the FAO-China South-South Cooperation Programme through triangular cooperation with the government of the Netherlands (Part I)” was held in Rome, Italy from 25 to 26 May 2023, in hybrid format.
![FAO initiative validates new advocacy strategy to boost women’s capacities to scale up gender-responsive policy making](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_52925320960_e1e5013c87_c.jpg)
25 May 2023
25 May 2023, Rome - A new advocacy strategy to scale up dryland women’s participation in climate change policy discussions was officially validated by WeCaN members at the initiative’s first Global Gathering today.![FAO Tanzania Côte d'Ivoire and Philippines meet to discuss on the outline of the international training curriculum to boost local rice value chains](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_International-Training-Curriculum-FAO-Tanzania-Cote-D_Ivoire-and-Phillippines-ok.jpg)
23 May 2023
23 May 2023 – A virtual international training curriculum consultation workshop, focusing on the rice value chain, was successfully organized by FAO under the framework of the "Capacity Development and Experience sharing for Rice Value Chains through South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC)" project, funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Republic of Korea (MAFRA).
Since 2020, the project has been facilitating diverse SSTC exchanges among the three participating countries, Tanzania, Côte d'Ivoire, and The Philippines, in order to support the countries’ sustainable and effective rice value chains, and has also convened policymakers and experts from the respective, relevant...