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FAO Annual Report on Private Sector Engagement, 2023
Engagement with the private sector represents an opportunity for FAO to more efficiently deliver on its mandate, advance progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, and ensure better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life for all, leaving no one behind. This report looks at how FAO's engagement with the private sector developed during in 2023. It documents major achievements and lessons learned during the year, explores the diversity of private sector landscapes across FAO’s five regions, and outlines priorities for the year to come.
Courses
FAO strategic documents
- Outline of FAO’s Strategic Framework 2022–2031 and Medium-Term Plan 2022–2025 (2020)
- FAO Annual report on Private Sector Engagement 2021
- FAO Strategy for Private Sector Engagement (2021-2025)
- FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative (2019)
- Partnerships in action (2019)
- Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) in Agriculture (2021)
Guidelines for SDG impact
- Guidance on core indicators for agrifood systems – Measuring the private sector’s contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (2021)
- Stepping up – Everyone around the table for better nutrition and healthy diets (2021)
- Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) in Agriculture (2021)
- Transforming Food and Agriculture to achieve the SDGs (2018)
- Committee on World Food Security Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems (2014)
- Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security (2004)
- Voluntary Guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security (2012)
- EX-Ante Carbon balance Tool (EX-ACT)
- GHG accounting tools: Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM)
- Climate-smart agriculture
- OECD–FAO Guidance for Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains (2016)
- Environmental and Social Management Guidelines (2015)
- Public–private partnerships for agribusiness development: A review of international experiences (2016)
- FAO’s Sustainable Food Value Chains approach (2014)
- Value Chain Analysis for Development (VCA4D) (2017)
- FAO’s Decent Rural Employment Toolbox (2015)
- Developing gender-sensitive value chains: Guidelines for practitioners (2018)
- Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries
- FAO Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE) (2019)
- Food-based dietary guidelines
- Addressing agriculture, forestry and fisheries in National Adaptation Plans – Supplementary guidelines (2017)
- UNSDG Common Approach to Prospect Research and Due Diligence for Business Sector Partnerships
- Evaluation of the FAO Strategy for Partnerships with the Private Sector
- FSN Forum report: Core food and agricultural indicators for measuring the private sector’s contribution to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
- Private sector mapping, outreach, and engagement in climate-responsive agrifood systems (2023)
- Mapping tool for Private Sector entity assessment (2023)
- Notes on Mapping Tool's use
- Methodology for the Mapping Tool
