Transforming food and agriculture for sustainable development
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls for a bold, transformational change to achieve a world that is more inclusive, fair, sustainable and resilient. It’s a world free of hunger and extreme poverty, one that protects the sustainable use of biodiversity, natural resources and ecosystem services for development.
This corporate portal is a gateway to FAO’s policy and governance support work to build sustainable food systems that can help countries achieve the vision of the 2030 Agenda. FAO, itself the world’s leading forum for policy dialogue, promotes evidence-based policymaking from national to regional and global levels as countries prioritize challenges, implement decisions and monitor their effectiveness.
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New report highlights critical food system trends and challenges in countdown to 2030
14 January 2025 - The Food Systems Countdown Initiative report identifies governance and resilience as pivotal leverage points for food system transformation
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PARLATINO approves groundbreaking model law to promote agroecology
7 January 2025 - The new legislative framework paves the way for more sustainable agrifood systems by applying ecological principles to agriculture and the regenerative use of natural resources
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Multistakeholder policy dialogue to promote innovation in agrifood systems - A training guide
2025
This training guide has been developed to address this gap by providing clear and comprehensive guidance on multistakeholder policy dialogue in agrifood systems. This guide also brings the added value of a clear focus on promoting innovation through smart, inclusive and collaboratively developed and implemented policies.
Climate-related development finance to agrifood systems, 2024 update
2024
This technical brief aims to inform participants of the UNFCCC 29th Conference of the Parties (COP 29), as well as UN agencies, international finance institutions, national governments of both donor and recipient countries, governmental and non-governmental stakeholders, and a wider group of partners interested in climate-related development finance.
Assessing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the livelihoods of rural people - A review of the evidence
2022
In this paper we focus specifically on differences in the welfare impacts of COVID-19 on rural livelihoods between countries using nationally representative data that we disaggregate by food system typology. This typology captures key structural differences in the organization of rural economies and the vulnerabilities to rural livelihoods due to the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown measures.
POLICY & GOVERNANCE
Policy and governance are closely interrelated: they are both concerned with addressing problems that are important to large numbers of people.
Nevertheless, both concepts differ: policy is an output and outcome of diverse governance processes.
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