The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is convening a virtual forum of world leaders from Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in a major push forward to help its Members regain their momentum toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), badly affected by the global pandemic, ongoing triple-dimensional forms of malnutrition and increasingly extreme natural hazards related to climate change.

Co-hosted by the Government of Fiji, FAO will organize the SIDS Solutions Forum, 30 – 31 August.  The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will partner with FAO for the event.

Heads of States and Governments from SIDS in the Pacific will be joined by representatives from SIDS countries in the African and Americas regions. Ministers holding key government portfolios related to agriculture, food, nutrition, environment, health and ICT, are expected to participate and play leading roles – as is the private sector, civil society and others – in sharing replicable solutions.