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Last December, FAO rolled out its capacity development support for the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Agrarian Reform in pursuing the Philippine government’s vision for agri-industrial business corridors or ABCs. More than 30 representatives from national and regional government agencies, local government units, state universities, and farmers’ groups gathered...

Some 126 farmers representing four community-based organizations (CBOs) participating under the New Zealand-funded project “Support to Agriculture-based Livelihoods and Agribusiness Enterprise for Sustainable Peace and Development in Maguindanao and Cotabato” have successfully completed the season-long training on Climate Resilient-Farmer Field School (CR-FFS) and Farm Business School (FBS). The training was...

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have kicked off their jointly implemented “Resilient Livelihoods Development for Women and Youth Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Maguindanao” project with a training-of-trainers workshop on Community-based Organization (CBO) Management and Financial Literacy last...

Government officials from two African countries, Tanzania and Côte d'Ivoire, and an Asian country, the Philippines, participated in a week-long international training session on formulating sustainable Agricultural Mechanization Strategies (AMS) and Mechanization Hire Services, relevant to rice value chains, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...

A virtual international training curricula consultation workshop, focusing on 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...