News Articles
21/03/2017
The “Campaign for Preventing Bread Waste” launched by the Turkish Grain Board (TMO) in 2013 with the broad support of the government and civil society, blanketed 12 major cities. It targeted households and bakeries as well as cafeterias, restaurants and hotels with the aim of preventing bread waste and the loss it […]
20/03/2017
Division for Arab States, Europe and the CIS, UNOSSC, initiates the production of thematic publications on scalable and replicable innovative solutions in agricultural development that may contribute to sustainable development in the Arab States and the Europe and the CIS regions and beyond. We would like to invite relevant experts to apply for […]
17/02/2017
The first in the series two-day trainings will be organized jointly by UNOSSC and UNSSC for the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests of the Sudan within the SSTC-ADFS partnership initiative supported by IFAD, IsDB and UNOSSC. This participatory course is organized in the form of a mutual learning whereby the past expertise […]
17/02/2017
Khartoum, Sudan, 15 February 2017 – Countries’ successful examples and opportunities for public-private partnership in agriculture sector contributing to improvement of the quality of life for farmers and to enhanced food security, will be presented and discussed in a three-day workshop organized in Khartoum, Sudan on 18-20 February 2017. The South-South Knowledge […]
13/12/2016
Bonn, 29 November-1 December 2016 On 29th November, UN staff, government focal points and development practitioners from 14 countries, including the Arab states, Europe and CIS, came together for the launch of a three-day course on “UN Catalytic Support to South-South & Triangular Cooperation in Implementing the Agenda 2030” organized in Bonn, […]
20/11/2016
Dubai, UAE, 2 November 2016 – The Special Session aimed to provide the participants with better understanding of cross-regional cooperation as one of the practical models of South-South Cooperation that could be applied as a collaboration framework in attaining certain national development priorities. It is also expected that the participating national focal […]
03/11/2016
1st Regional Networking Forum for the Arab States, Europe and the CIS will be held at the Global South‐South Development Expo DUBAI, UAE – In a Regional Networking Forum in Dubai, national focal points on South‐South Cooperation and heads of Development Cooperation from the Arab States, Europe and the CIS, as well as […]
01/11/2016
2016 Global South-South Development Expo Opens with Call for Greater South-South Solidarity – from Syria to the Sustainable Development Goals DUBAI, UAE (31 October 2016) – The United Nations Global South-South Development Expo, an annual event highlighting Southern innovations in tackling southern poverty challenges, opened to widespread applause today. The Expo is […]
30/10/2016
Countries Participating The South-South and Triangular Cooperation For Agricultural Development and Food Security In the Arab States and Eurasia Establishes a Platform for Collaboration at Policy Level Dubai, UAE, 30 October 2016 – The High-Level Ministerial Meeting on South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Agricultural Development and Enhanced Food Security in the Arab […]
28/10/2016
High-Level Ministerial Meeting on South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Agricultural Development and Enhanced Food Security in the Arab States and Eurasia At the pre-event of the Global South-South Development Expo 2016, cooperation on Agricultural Development and Food Security is in focus Dubai, UAE – A high level Ministerial Meeting is organized in […]
19/10/2016
The South-South Knowledge Exchange and Coordination Workshop on water resources and irrigation system under climate change was organized in the framework of the partnership initiative on South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Agricultural Development and Enhanced Food Security (SSTC-ADFS) jointly supported by IFAD, IsDB and UNOSSC. It provided an opportunity for the representatives […]
06/10/2016
Gödöllő, Hungary, 12 September. The First Specialized Training on Agricultural Biotechnology within the SSTC-ADFS initiative has helped the experts from the Arab States, Central Asia and Turkey to obtain new skills in chicken primordial germ cell (cPGCs) long-term cultivation and characterization. Agricultural biotechnology is the application of scientific techniques to modify and […]