04 October 2012, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between FAO and Mongolia bolstering joint efforts to defeat hunger, increase agricultural production and improve rural livelihoods. The agreement has a duration of five years and lays out priority areas for cooperation, including: sustainable livestock development, agriculture, forestry management, disaster preparedness, improvement of food supply chains and food safety, aquaculture, agricultural statistics and south-south cooperation.