Knowledge exchanges between nations of the global south can offer new solutions for development challenges - FAO Director-General.
Horizontal cooperation between countries of the global South is increasingly important to meeting the sustainable development challenges of our time, said FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva at the first International Conference on South-South Cooperation in Marrakesh, Morocco, on 13-14 December 2014.
Morocco's minister of agriculture and sea fisheries, Aziz Akhannouch, reviewed with Russian agriculture minister, Nikolai Fiodorov and chairman of the Russian fisheries Agency, means to consolidate bilateral cooperation in agriculture and sea fisheries.
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Minister of Fisheries Wealth Awad al-Socotri in 12 August met separately with ambassadors of Egypt, Algeria and Eritrea to Yemen.
Read moreEU vessels fishing shrimps and small pelagics in Mauritanian waters in the framework of the EU-Mauritania Fisheries Protocol will be able to continue to do so until 15 December 2014. This is part of the compromise which EU negotiators found last night in Nouakchott after the Mauritanian authorities had upheld the position that all EU vessels would have to leave Mauritanian waters as of 1 August 2014.
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The Department of Marine Fisheries announced on July 11, in a statement, the launch of a Call for Expression of Interest (CEI) for selecting new development projects of small pelagics in the province of Dakhla.. In the context of developing the southern provinces and implementing "Halieutis" strategy, the Department of Marine Fisheries supports and encourages the implementation of seafood value addition projects in this region through the allocation of fishing quota in the small pelagic fishery in the South Atlantic (stock C), covering part of the supply needs of the proposed value addition project, according to the ministry statement
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