FAO One Country One Priority Product Newsletter, July 2023 – Issue #3
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This newsletter collates a variety of activities that have taken place under the One Country One Priority Product Initiative (OCOP) from May to July 2023. The FAO Director-General QU Dongyu reiterated the importance of the OCOP initiative as a key part of the Organisation's overarching strategy. A;lso highlighted are the series of successful regional launch event and workshops on the implementation of OCOP country projects that took place in Uzbekistan, Malawi and Bangladesh. Along with these events there were key milestones for implementation and coordination, namely the Regional Organising Group for Asia and the Pacific, the Sustainable Food Value Chain training for each OCOP demonstration country team and the fifth Inception Workshop for a OCOP demonstration country, about the sustainable development of date palms in Egypt. Resources are being made available on the OCOP website, including the first OCOP webinar and a series of videos produced by the FAO Office of Asia and the Pacific. Finally, there is a field story about the importance of the jackfruit in Bangladesh, with a testimony from jackfruit farmer Kazi Muhammad Fazlul Huq.