FAO-China 高层次政策对话与考察访问 推动南南合作与三方合作伙伴关系——14国驻华使节聚焦数字农业与农食体系转型
FAO与中国农业农村部联合举办的高层政策对话与考察，涉及14国使节与数字农业、南南合作，权威性与影响层级高，但属活动综述、信息增量中等且已过一周时效。
2026年9月14日至18日，FAO 与中国农业农村部（MARA）合作，在海南和北京举办高层政策对话与考察访问。来自佛得角、埃塞俄比亚、德国、印尼、意大利、肯尼亚、墨西哥、蒙古、巴基斯坦、南非、斯里兰卡、乌干达、乌兹别克斯坦、津巴布韦14国高级代表参会。访问内容覆盖热带农业与小农耕作、农产品加工与价值链、木薯与水果研究、种子育种与创新、农业研究与遗传资源、植物与动物科学、养蜂与数字农业。9月18日北京高层政策对话结束，FAO与中国正式启动多边务实合作。自2009年以来FAO-China南南合作计划已通过39个国家、区域、全球与三角合作项目支持粮食安全、可持续农业与农村发展。
Senior representatives and Ambassadors from around 14 countries gathered in Hainan and Beijing, China, from 14 to 18 September 2026 for a high-level policy dialogue and study tour designed at advancing South-South and Triangular Cooperation as a driver of agrifood systems transformation.
Organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA), the event offered senior country representatives from Cabo Verde, Ethiopia, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Mongolia, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Uzbekistan and Zimbabwe, firsthand exposure to China’s agricultural innovations, while generating new opportunities to reinforce partnerships, exchange policy solutions and scale up cooperation under the FAO–China South-South Cooperation Programme.
The initiative created a space for countries to exchange priorities and identify new areas of cooperation.
Across Haikou, Danzhou and Sanya in Hainan Province, and later in Beijing, participants were exposed to a broad range of China’s agricultural development experiences. Visits covered tropical agriculture and smallholder farming, agricultural processing and value chains, cassava and fruit research, seed breeding and innovation, agricultural research and genetic resources, plant and animal sciences, apiculture and digital agriculture.
The delegation engaged with the Hainan Provincial Government, the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS), agricultural enterprises and cooperatives, Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City and the Nanfan seed R&D platforms, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) and China Agricultural University. These exchanges helped turn the study tour into a partnership-building platform, opening channels between participating countries and Chinese technical and research institutions for potential future cooperation.
The programme culminated on 18 September with a High-level Policy Dialogue in Beijing, where countries, MARA, FAO and partner institutions moved from learning and exchange to action, translating lessons from the week into future priorities and concrete partnerships.
The Dialogue underscored the role of the FAO-China SSC Programme as a practical platform for policy exchange and for matching country priorities with relevant knowledge, technologies and institutional expertise. Countries shared experiences as both recipients and providers of solutions, know-how and technologies, identified opportunities for future SSTC and triangular partnerships, and discussed practical ways to give SSTC a stronger and more systematic role across FAO’s Strategic Framework, programmes and priority corporate initiatives.
Since its establishment in 2009, the Programme has played a catalytic role in supporting food security, sustainable agriculture and rural development through 39 national, regional, global and triangular cooperation projects, alongside more than 1 500 training, capacity-development, study tour and learning exchange activities reaching participants from over 100 countries.
During her closing remarks, FAO Deputy Director-General, Beth Bechdol, underscored how SSTC must assume a stronger and more strategic role in how FAO supports Members and emphasized the need to mainstream SSTC more systematically across FAO’s work: moving beyond successful individual projects to stronger partnerships, investment and innovation.
Ms Hua Yang, Director of the South-South and Triangular Cooperation Division of FAO also underscored the need to translate the policy dialogue and study tour into concreate actions. “We need to broaden the discussion and look forward – drawing on what we have seen during the study tour and on the development priorities and capabilities of all participating countries – to identify opportunities for future cooperation”
By the end of the week, participants identified concrete follow-up opportunities in technical and institutional cooperation, technology adaptation, capacity development, triangular cooperation, investment and partnership building. FAO will work with participating countries, China and partner institutions to translate these priorities and new connections into cooperation that can deliver practical, scalable solutions for agrifood system transformation.