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![Innovative strategies for addressing the dual challenges of covid-19 and fertilizer crisis in Ugandan agriculture through capacity development on sustainable soil management](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_ffd1d34192.jpg)
09 May 2023
Agriculture plays a critical role in Uganda, where the majority of the population depends on it for their livelihoods. However, unsustainable soil management practices, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and fertilizer crisis, have led to soil degradation and declining crop production.![Phytosanitary capacity development significantly strengthened under the IPPC FAO-China South-South Cooperation Programme](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_chinaprjnews2-800x400.jpg)
20 Apr 2023
Rome, 20 April 2023. Members of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretariat, multiple FAO divisions and contracting party representatives met to mark the progress made, to date, on the IPPC Global Project on Capacity Development implemented by the IPPC under the framework of the FAO-China South-South Cooperation (SSC) Programme.![Boosting Small Island Developing States’ ability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_rsz_1fao_25048_0111.jpg)
18 Apr 2023
Geneva/Rome – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today announced the launch of a new $5 million project supported by the FAO-China South-South Cooperation (SSC) Programme to assist Small Island Developing States (SIDS) strengthen their capacities and tackle common development challenges.![MEV-CAM reaches Latin America!](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_medium_Best--Day-1-5.png)
03 Apr 2023
03/04/2023 The FAO Dryland team’s MEV-CAM initiative kicked off its expansion into Latin America with a four-day training course on process documentation methods, its first-ever workshop held virtually.
Eleven participants from six Latin American countries with Monitoring & Evaluation, technical and communications backgrounds attended the training, gaining valuable insight into the use of innovative tools to approach process documentation, knowledge management, and a participatory way to complement monitoring and evaluation on the ground. Over the course of four sessions, trainees gained a solid background and overview of how to implement MEV-CAM’s methods, which put the participation of local communities at the forefront...![South-South and Triangular Cooperation - A vital resource mobilization tool for FAO's regional priority programs](https://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/partnerships/img/small_PSR_PST_IMAGE_CD.png)
28 Mar 2023
28/03/2023 Rome/Accra - South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) lays the building blocks to facilitate knowledge creation, catalyze investments, create networks and match making.
As such, FAO via SSTC facilitates mutual learning, ensures that cooperating partners adhere to mutual commitments and that technology and knowledge are adaptable to local conditions environmentally friendly, economically sustainable and socially inclusive.
These matters and other items were discussed at today’s virtual Capacity Development workshop on Resource Mobilization for South-South and Triangular Cooperation: “Leveraging partnerships and resource mobilization for south-south and triangular cooperation for reducing poverty and hunger, and promoting sustainable food systems”.
The workshop aimed at improving the...