Capacity development
FAO is actively supporting regional and country capacities to shape food systems that enable healthy diets. Developing appropriate food systems policies and actions entails improving governments' and non-State actors' capacities for carrying out the necessary actions. To achieve this goal, FAO has developed a Capacity Development Roadmap in support of the revised Vision and Strategy for FAO's Work in Nutrition (FAO's Nutrition Strategy). The Roadmap will steer the capacity development activities by addressing current gaps and leveraging opportunities. To know more about the Capacity Development Roadmap and its implementation click here.
Main resources by thematic area
FAO has developed a series of technical papers, policy briefs, manuals, e-learning courses, webinars and videos to assist partners in the design and implementation of appropriate, informed and coherent food systems policies and actions.
Click on the thematic areas to know more about our capacity development resources and publications.
Resources
01 January 2014
These guidelines for agreeing on causes of malnutrition for joint action are designed to assist professionals involved in development, emergency, and resilience building programmes who seek to promote integrated planning across sectors for sustainable improvements in nutrition. The guidelines present...
04 November 2013
Milk and dairy products are a vital source of nutrition for many people. They also present livelihood opportunities for farm families, processors and other stakeholders in dairy value chains. Consumers, industry and governments need up-to-date information on how milk and...
03 September 2013
FAO in collaboration with Bioversity International and the other parties is leading the Cross-Cutting Initiative on Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition, which has been established to measure, investigate and promote biodiversity and nutrition (FAO, 2008, 2010). Nutritional indicators for biodiversity...
02 September 2013
The FAO/INFOODS Food Composition Database for Biodiversity (BioFoodComp) is the first global repository of solely analytical data on food biodiversity and represents the equivalent of an archival database, which means that no values have been calculated or estimated to complete...