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17 October 2019
A two-day conference started today in Tunisia on Responsible Agricultural Investment on the road to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), the conference aims to...
14 October 2019
This week at theforty-sixth plenary session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) there will be several side events related to investment in agriculture and food systems to achieve food security and the Sustainable Development Goals.
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14 October 2019
Tunisia has made considerable efforts to support investments along agricultural value chains and to encourage rural youth to become agri-entrepreneurs. However, significant challenges have to be tackled to stimulate and promote more and better investments to stop rural outward migration...
16 September 2019
This video describes the testimonies of participants in the learning programme "Creating an enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems" that took place in March 2019 in Dakar. More information in: http://www.fao.org/in-action/responsible-agricultural-investments/news/detail-events/en/c/1186849/
27 June 2019
Inclusive business models enable the responsible integration of small-scale producers into markets with the underlying principle that there are mutual benefits for all involved parties. Contract farming is one of the business models that has the potential to sustainably increase...