SIDS Solutions Platform

Publications
06/2024

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) continue to serve as a major source of employment and income generation in the agriculture and tourism sectors in countries of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM). Most MSMEs are small businesses run by families or by a few individuals. While this helps to keep labour and overhead costs to a minimum, it creates a suboptimum economy of scale.

05/2024

This report was developed under the Korean-funded “Sustainable Fish Value Chains for Small Island Developing States” project. The project aims to contribute to economic growth, job creation, and food and nutrition security. This publication summarizes a much more detailed report focusing on the semi-industrial value chains of mackerel scad and tuna-like species in Cabo Verde.

02/2024

The amount of climate finance flowing to agrifood systems is strikingly low and continues to diminish vis-à-vis global climate finance flows. Agriculture is one of the sectors with the highest adaptation finance needs for implementing the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) but climate finance for adaptation is also on a downward trend. The diminishing trends of both agrifood and adaptation investments is a cause for alarm and a missed opportunity.

12/2023

Agrifood systems are intrinsically linked to climate change and are particularly vulnerable to its impacts. Each year hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of crops and livestock production is lost due to disaster events, undermining hard-won development gains and livelihoods for farmers.

10/2023

Disasters are resulting in unprecedented levels of destruction across the world. These shocks and disruptions affect the functioning and sustainability of agricultural production and threaten the livelihoods of millions of people reliant on agrifood systems.

10/2023

Haiti's participation in this year's Investment Forum reaffirms its commitment in transforming the national agricultural landscape through investment opportunities for resilience and long-term development, with a specific focus on the South-East region. By targeting five selected communes, Haiti aims to drive transformative changes in agri-food systems and enhance agricultural productivity.

10/2023

Vanuatu's long-term planning framework, Vanuatu 2030 – the People's Plan, places agriculture and industry at the core of its development journey. The vision aims to increase sustainable agricultural and fisheries food production to ensure affordable and nutritious food access. These government priorities align closely with the principles of the Hand-in-Hand Initiative (HiH), which seeks to eradicate poverty, end hunger and malnutrition, and reduce inequalities through a market-based approach.

11/2022

A vision for FAO's work on aquatic food systems.

05/2022

FAO in the Pacific: 2021 Annual Report' presents the results that FAO-led projects and programmes contributed to the timely and effective joint response by the United Nations family, governments and other partners under various thematic clusters.