Results

In food security and agricultural development, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in supporting vulnerable populations. However, they often face significant challenges in accessing financial resources, with women-owned businesses particularly struggling to secure credit and liquidity, making them more vulnerable to market disruptions. Addressing the gender gap in agriculture is vital. FAO’s 2023 report on "The Status of Women in Agrifood Systems" highlights that reducing disparities in farm productivity and wage employment could increase global GDP by 1% (nearly USD 1 trillion) and decrease global food insecurity by 2 percentage points, lifting approximately 45 million people out of...

Ensuring food security and nutrition for all involves complex, interrelated challenges – and close partnerships with a full spectrum of entities. To open the doors of discussion, FAO has launched a series of Partnership Dialogues, which invite FAO’s non-state actor partners to exchange with FAO on key topics of global interest in the context of food security governance and agrifood systems. The first session, held on 31 May 2024, welcomed FAO’s Informal Private Sector Advisory Group (PSAG) members to discuss views from the private sector on FAO's global roadmap to achieving SDG2 without breaching the 1.5ºC threshold. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal...

Private sector organizations engaged in discussions to draft their statement to ERC34 during consultations led by FAO in Brussels, and hosted by Copa-Cogeca, for EU-based private sector organizations on 15 April, and a second FAO consultation in Istanbul on 18 April, hosted by the Federation of Food & Drink Industry Associations of Türkiye, for non-EU-based private sector organizations.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) kicked -off a round table discussion with the livestock and dairy sectors, bringing together milk producers, agrifood companies, associations, financiers and other leading private sector stakeholders to discuss collaboration and opportunities for climate action. The aim of the meeting was to explore how livestock and dairy sector actors are affected by climate change, what climate-friendly practices they are pursuing, what barriers exist to implementing such practices, and what kind of support is needed to encourage them to invest in climate action. The discussion aimed to survey financing options available from financiers...

The two organizations signed a letter of intent to strengthen and deepen their collaboration to promote the modernization of the agricultural and rural sectors, the development of small-scale agriculture, and food security in the region.