{"id":8106,"date":"2026-08-31T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/?p=8106"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:06:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:06:03","slug":"italian-trade-agency-ice-co-hosts-landmark-italy-south-africa-agri-food-business-forum-and-mou-signing-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/articles\/italian-trade-agency-ice-co-hosts-landmark-italy-south-africa-agri-food-business-forum-and-mou-signing-in-cape-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Trade Agency (ICE) Co-hosts Landmark Italy-South Africa Agri-Food Business Forum and MOU Signing in Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"8107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/18-734x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/18-734x1024.png 734w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/18-215x300.png 215w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/18-768x1072.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/18-1101x1536.png 1101w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/18-1468x2048.png 1468w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/18-1024x1429.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/18-scaled.png 1834w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"8108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/19-734x1024.png\" alt=\"A highlight of the opening session was the signing of an Italy-South Africa Memorandum of Understanding, formalising a joint commitment between SACE, Italy's export credit agency, and SIMEST, the Italian development finance institution focused on internationalisation, with the Italian-South African Chamber of Commerce. The MOU establishes a framework for long-term cooperation across research and innovation, digital agriculture, agricultural mechanisation, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, agro-processing and technology transfer - and creates a Joint Working Group to ensure the commitments made translate into practical commercial and investment outcomes.\" class=\"wp-image-8108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/19-734x1024.png 734w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/19-215x300.png 215w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/19-768x1072.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/19-1101x1536.png 1101w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/19-1468x2048.png 1468w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/19-1024x1429.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/19-scaled.png 1834w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A highlight of the opening session was the signing of an Italy-South Africa Memorandum of Understanding, formalising a joint commitment between SACE, Italy&#8217;s export credit agency, and SIMEST, the Italian development finance institution focused on internationalisation, with the Italian-South African Chamber of Commerce. The MOU establishes a framework for long-term cooperation across research and innovation, digital agriculture, agricultural mechanisation, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, agro-processing and technology transfer &#8211; and creates a Joint Working Group to ensure the commitments made translate into practical commercial and investment outcomes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-8106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8109,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions\/8109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelife.digital\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}