As South-South cooperation becomes more critical in fighting hunger and poverty, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and China have signed a five-year, $50 million agreement to support sustainable food systems and inclusive agricultural chains in developing countries in Asia, the Pacific, Africa and Latin America.
Since 1990, China has lifted 138 million out of chronic hunger, attaining the Millennium Development Goal of cutting its number of people dealing with chronic hunger by 2015, and the World Food Summit’s goal of cutting the total number of starving people in half.
This partnership between China, the leading agriculture producing country among developing countries, and the FAO, the leading global agricultural organization, is set to benefit low income, food-deficit countries through the sharing and distribution of knowledge and tools to support the development of agriculture, but also to benefit the world’s starving people.
This agreement between the FAO and China was signed as part of the 39th Conference of the agency which is examining the state of global food and agriculture and the fight against hunger.
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