Freetown – Sierra Leone, FAO and Viet Nam at this time signed a South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) settlement geared toward creating the rice sector within the African nation. The brand new venture has an estimated finances of $5 million to be applied by means of a Unilateral Belief Fund (UTF) from Sierra Leone.
The tripartite settlement was signed by His Excellency Abu Bakarr Karim, Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Meals Safety of Sierra Leone, and by Saeed Abubakar Bancie, FAO Consultant in Sierra Leone.
Minister Abu Bakarr Karim counseled Viet Nam for its dedication to offering technical help by means of FAO South-South Cooperation, emphasizing the invaluable position it can play in Sierra Leone’s agricultural panorama.
The brand new tripartite venture will help various actors to extend productiveness and manufacturing of rice by means of elevated entry to improved applied sciences and upscaling of greatest practices alongside the rice worth chain.
Over the course of a four-year venture, Viet Nam will present its experience in rice-value-chain improvement to Sierra Leone.
Expert specialists and technicians specialised in rice manufacturing, irrigation, rice breeding, mechanization, and post-harvest administration shall be deployed to varied nationwide websites, together with analysis stations. Moreover, capacity-building initiatives resembling examine excursions, subject coaching, and coaching of trainers shall be applied to empower native stakeholders.
This new tripartite settlement is a part of FAO’s sturdy dedication to broaden its partnership base with various teams of nations by means of South-South and Triangular Cooperation and the mobilization. The nations within the World South are more and more recognizing SSTC as probably the most environment friendly supply modalities addressing their wants.
Spearheading and mainstreaming South-South and Triangular Cooperation
Since 1996, FAO has been working at central and decentralized ranges to advertise SSTC amongst its Member States as a method to scale back poverty and starvation, whereas selling sustainable agrifood programs.
The SSTC Tips for Motion, a key software to scale up SSTC technical and monetary partnerships in help of agrifood programs transformation, is likely one of the some ways during which FAO is spearheading and mainstreaming SSTC.
FAO’s South-South Cooperation endeavors to facilitate the trade and switch of agricultural information and experience amongst creating nations. By leveraging confirmed improvements and greatest practices from the worldwide South, nations grappling with comparable challenges can profit from these collaborative efforts.
Close to the event of the rice sector in African nations particularly, FAO has supported, by means of SSC, main rice-producing nations resembling Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda to deal with the challenges going through their rice worth chains.
Via country-level capacity-building, regional information trade occasions and examine excursions, FAO has extensively facilitated the sharing of fine practices, classes realized and the dissemination of research on rice worth chains. In finishing up these features, FAO has established sturdy partnerships with establishments such because the Africa Rice Centre (AfricaRice) and the Worldwide Rice Analysis Institute (IRRI), bringing their experience to the advantage of goal beneficiaries.
