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FAO and the Sustainable Development Goals
Achieving the 2030 Agenda through empowerment of local communities
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FAO and the 2030 Agenda follow-up and review: Guidance note for Regional and Country Offices
This guidance note details the VNR process and elaborates on the importance of leveraging agrifood systems transformations as a key accelerator for the SDGs.
FAO SDG Action: Marking the mid-way point of the 2030 Agenda
A visual representation of FAO’s contribution to SDG achievement at the mid-way point of the 2030 Agenda
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Key Document
Tracking progress on food and agriculture SDG indicators 2023
The latest data indicate that most of the food- and agriculture-related SDG targets are still far from being achieved.
New releases
Transforming public agricultural extension and advisory service systems in smallholder farming - Status quo, gaps, way forward
2022
Worldwide, extension and advisory service (EAS) systems have undergone reforms since the 1990s. However, the reforms of the last two decades in many countries have largely failed, as there has not been significant increase in accountability, efficiency, empowerment or impact. To fill this gap, this document, based on a systematic and extended literature review, delves into public EAS systems in developing countries, with a special focus on smallholder farming and institutional reforms.
Access to food in 2021: filling data gaps - Results of twenty national surveys using the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)
2022
This report presents the results of assessments based on the food insecurity experience scale (FIES), data collected by FAO in twenty least developed countries (LDCs), landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) between November 2021 and February 2022. For nine of the countries (including eight SIDS), it was the first time FIES data had been collected.
South-South in Action - South-South and triangular cooperation in agricultural development: FAO's experiences
2022
This publication outlines key features of South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) and how FAO has applied SSTC to the delivery of its mission. The case studies presented provide a window on how SSTC has contributed to alleviating hunger and malnutrition in countries across the global South and has helped build resilience in the face of climate change and other development challenges.
Small-scale producers in sustainable agrifood systems transformation
2022
This paper analyzes the diversity of small-scale producers and demonstrates how understanding small-scale production can have consequences for how policies and investments are directed and how they impact small-scale producer livelihoods. The diverse roles and functions of small-scale production are presented as being essential to realizing sustainable agrifood systems transformations and respecting its social, environmental and economic dimensions.
Sustainable and circular bioeconomy in the biodiversity agenda - Opportunities to conserve and restore biodiversity in agrifood systems through bioeconomy practices
2022
The sustainable management of biodiversity contributes to addressing food and nutrition security, enhancing resilience, and providing livelihoods to local and indigenous communities that can diversify their activities and generate income.
The role of genetic resources for food and agriculture in adaptation to and mitigation of climate change
2022
The main focus of this study is the state of current use of genetic resources in climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts. Each chapter explores the impacts of climate change on genetic resources and also considers the significance of genetic resources to climate change adaptation and mitigation.
School Food and Nutrition – Global Action Plan 2022–2026
2022
The School food and nutrition - Global action plan seeks to consolidate and guide FAO’s synergistic efforts, setting out priority and concrete outputs to be achieved by 2026.
Soils for nutrition: state of the art
2022
This booklet contributes to understanding processes related to soil fertility from the perspectives of food production and food security, and the environmental and climate change impacts associated with fertilizer misuse and overuse. The booklet also outlines the main areas of opportunity and the way forward to solve the nutrient imbalance prevailing in our current agrifood systems.
The future of food and agriculture – Drivers and triggers for transformation
2022
This report aims at inspiring strategic thinking and actions to transform agrifood systems towards a sustainable, resilient and inclusive future, by building on both previous reports in the same series as well as on a comprehensive corporate strategic foresight exercise that also nurtured FAO Strategic Framework 2022–31. It analyses major drivers of agrifood systems and explores how their trends could determine alternative futures of agrifood, socioeconomic and environmental systems.
FAO and the Sustainable Development Goals: Achieving the 2030 Agenda through empowerment of local communities
2022
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) belong to all of us. But amid resurgent conflict, climate havoc, and social and health crises, we risk losing sight of them. Even so, they represent our best shot at a better future for people and planet. This publication shows how FAO and partners continue to work for the achievement of the SDGs, project by project, field by field, and country by country.
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 - Repurposing food and agricultural policies to make healthy diets more affordable
2022
This year’s report should dispel any lingering doubts that the world is moving backwards in its efforts to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms. We are now only eight years away from 2030, but the distance to reach many of the SDG 2 targets is growing wider each year. There are indeed efforts to make progress towards SDG 2, yet they are proving insufficient in the face of a more challenging and uncertain context.
Cluster evaluation of projects on protecting, improving, and sustaining food security in rural Somalia
2022
This evaluation report presents the results of a cluster evaluation of two emergency projects aimed to protect, improve and sustain rural food security in Somalia from 2019 to 2021. The main activities included Food Security Cluster Coordination, Cash+, cash for work (CFW), Long-Term Cash and Livelihoods (LTCL), contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP) vaccination, fall armyworm (FAW) pest control, field schools and improving agricultural production in the Bay region.
Mainstreaming biodiversity in forestry
2022
This study is a collaboration between FAO and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), lead centre of the CGIAR research programme on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA). Illustrated by eight country case-studies, the report reviews progress and outlines the technical and policy tools available for countries and stakeholders, as well as the steps needed, to effectively mainstream biodiversity in forestry.
Making way - developing national legal and policy frameworks for pastoral mobility
2022
This handbook calls for the legal recognition and securing of pastoral mobility as a way of safeguarding and facilitating a continuous stream of economic and social benefits for pastoralists, countries, and the environment. It facilitates a deeper understanding of pastoral mobility through examples and case studies drawn from various parts of the world and identifies considerations to be borne in mind when legislating for mobility.
FAO’s work on South–South and Triangular Cooperation in sub-Saharan Africa: Exchanging rice-farming knowledge and technology for food security
2022
FAO has worked with a range of partners on successful South–South and Triangular Cooperation agreements to benefit Africa, including Brazil, China, the Republic of Korea, Morocco, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Viet Nam. These Global South partners bring considerable knowledge and experience borne from decades of national development progress and international development assistance. Their cooperation embodies solidarity among peoples and countries of the Global South.
The State of the World’s Forests 2022 - Forest pathways for green recovery and building inclusive, resilient and sustainable economies
2022
Against the backdrop of the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use and the pledge of 140 countries to eliminate forest loss by 2030 and to support restoration and sustainable forestry, the 2022 edition of The State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) explores the potential of three forest pathways for achieving green recovery and tackling multidimensional planetary crises, including climate change and biodiversity loss...
A vision for FAO’s work on aquatic food systems
2022
This document outlines a roadmap for the transformation of aquatic food systems - ‘Blue Transformation’, providing a compass for the FAO’s work on aquatic food systems for the period 2022–2030. This roadmap for Blue Transformation aligns with the 2021 Declaration for Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and FAO’s Strategic Framework 2022–2031...
Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators 2022
2022
Seven years into the 2030 Agenda, there is an urgent need to understand where the world stands in eliminating hunger and food insecurity, as well as in ensuring sustainable agriculture. FAO’s new report, “Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators”, offers analysis and trends on indicators across eight SDGs (1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 12, 14 and 15), highlighting areas of progress and areas where further effort is needed.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2022 - Leveraging agricultural automation for transforming agrifood systems
2022
The State of Food and Agriculture 2022 looks into the drivers of agricultural automation, including the more recent digital technologies. Based on 27 case studies, the report analyses the business case for adoption of digital automation technologies in different agricultural production systems across the world. It identifies several barriers preventing inclusive adoption of these technologies, particularly by small-scale producers.
Achieving Antimicrobial Stewardship on the Global Scale: Challenges and Opportunities
2022
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been clearly identified as a major global health challenge. It is a leading cause of human deaths and also has a toll on animals, plants, and the environment. Despite the considerable socio-economic impacts, the level of awareness of the problem remains woefully inadequate, and antimicrobials are not generally recognized as a global common good, one that everyone has a role and responsibility to conserve.
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