South-South and Triangular Cooperation Gateway.

 

Side event entitled "South-South and Triangular Cooperation Gateway: facilitating access to digital and innovative technologies for more efficient, more inclusiven more resilient, more sustainable agrifood-systems." The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has embraced South-South and triangular cooperation (SSTC) as a key delivery modality to catalyse agricultural development, food security, and rural development.


Objectives:
The overall objectives of the event are:
  • to promote SSTC and its contributions to alleviating hunger and malnutrition and inclusive and resilient agrifood systems transformation in countries across the Global South - leaving no one behind;
  • to showcase successful SSTC rural and agricultural digitalization projects/case studies in the Global South;
  • to learn and exchange knowledge on how SSTC is bridging digital and technological divides and ensuring that STI, including AI, serves as a driver of equitable and sustainable development;
  • to reaffirm FAO and UNOSSC's joint SSTC commitments towards the achievement of the SDGs, especially SDG 1: No poverty and SDG 2: Zero hunger;
  • to pave the way for further SSTC discussions and concrete actions towards cross-collaborations with other SSTC digital multi-stakeholders' platforms.


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