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CICETE Supported the Seminar on China-Africa Rice Value Chain Enhancement

From 8 June to 10 June, Seminar on China-Africa Rice Value Chain Enhancement was successfully held in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. The Seminar was jointly organized by WFP China and UN Office for South-South Cooperation and received the great support from CICETE, China-Africa Development Fund and WFP Regional Center of Excellence against Hunger and Malnutrition.




The Seminar was combined with offline and online sessions, including both in-house discussions and technical visit to rice reserve and processing facilities. The opening ceremony was followed by moderated discussions, focused on the overview of rice value chain in China and Africa, exchange discussion on rice value chain enhancement, country case show, free discussion on PPP for rice value chain in Africa and wrap-up.

Over 100 representatives from UN agencies, the Chinese government, embassies in China, research institutes, academia, financial institutions, and private sectors attended the Seminar. CICETE Director General a.i. Zhang Yi attended the Seminar and delivered a closing remark.




Mr. Zhang Yi, underlined in his closing remark that, a world with zero hunger can positively impact our economies, health, education, equality and social development. To end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture, which is the SDG 2, are relevant to the agricultural development. Therefore, China-Africa agricultural cooperation is the top priority whether among Ten Cooperation Plans, or Eight Action Plans. China and Africa had made continuous progress in agricultural cooperation mechanisms, trade and investment in agriculture, and agricultural technology exchanges, making contributions to the development of China-Africa relations. It is high time to take big-picture thinking, adhere to inclusive and sustainable cooperation, provide tailor-made solutions, empower Africa with the localized rice value chain development and make full use of the Demonstration Centers of China Agricultural Technology in Africa. Solidarity and cooperation among public and private sectors, financial institutions, international organizations, academia, etc should make concrete and synergic efforts to forge ahead China-Africa agricultural cooperation. The Joint Initiative on South-South Cooperation for Rice Value Chain Development in Africa, announced in 2019, was an open platform. It is hoped that we could stand shoulder to shoulder and step up actions to strive for the zero hunger vision.




The Seminar was one of the activities supported under the Global South-South Development Center Project with an aim to provide opportunity to link both China and Africa concerned partners to share insights and exchange visions on solutions and pathways to enhance the actual cooperation, to create an enabling platform to smooth the cooperation on rice value chain development and facilitate Africa to benefit from the Chinese food security experience and expertise in agricultural development and to make contribution to UN Sustainable Development Goals and Africa 2063 Agenda.


Background information:


A Joint Initiative on South-South Cooperation for Rice Value Chain Development in Africa was announced at the Seminar of China-Africa Ag-coop and Development by China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchanges (CICETE), China National Hybrid Rice R&D Center, World Food Programme (WFP), United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), African Union and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), during the period of the first China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo in June 2019, Changsha, China.



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