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Explore FAO’s free, self-paced e-Learning courses, tailored for professionals working to implement the SDGs on the ground and enhance their ability to champion the 2030 Agenda in their locality.
Monitoring price incentives for food and agriculture: the MAFAP method
01/11/2021
Knowing how policies influence prices at different stages of the value chain, such as at producer, wholesale and retail level, is fundamental to determine if changes in policy are needed to encourage production or ensure food security. This course explains how to produce price indicators, what data you need and how to calculate and analyse them in order to shape and optimise public policy.
Monitoring public expenditure on food and agriculture: the MAFAP method
01/11/2021
Monitoring public spending devoted to food and agriculture is a critical policy analysis tool to better understand agricultural public expenditure and how it affects agricultural development, food security and economic growth.This course will equip you with the skills to carry out your public expenditure analysis, looking at total amounts and breakdown of spending.
Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries - Policy and Legal Implementation
01/10/2021
This course aims to support the implementation of an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) through policy and legal frameworks. It offers guidance in all the steps of implementing an EAF through policy and legal frameworks, also supporting the development of an EAF Implementation Roadmap that aims to foster national...
Sustainable Food Systems
01/09/2021
The course series highlights how systems thinking, and taking a sustainable food systems approach, can help to significantly improve our work in project and policy design for sustainable food systems development and transformation.
Forest and Water Nexus – Introduction
01/08/2021
This course is intended to provide on overview of forest and water relationships, and an understanding of the impacts of changing landscapes on water resources. It can be used as an introduction for those who will engage in workshops using the FAO capacity development facilitation guide on Advancing the Forest and Water Nexus.
Small and Medium Enterprises and Nutrition – making the business case
01/07/2021
This is the first of a series of two e-learning courses on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and nutrition. In this course, you will discover the business case for leveraging SMEs - and particularly those engaged in the post-production stages of the value chain - to make food systems more nutrition-sensitive.
Introduction to the Farmer Field School Approach
01/07/2021
Farmer Field School (FFS) is a participatory education approach that brings together a group of small-scale food producers to solve production problems through sustainable agriculture. The FFS approach offers space for hands-on group learning, enhancing skills for observation and critical analysis and improved decision making by local communities.
Rules of the road at sea for small-scale fishers
01/06/2021
This course introduces you to the maritime traffic rules that small-scale fishers in coastal and inland waters should know about. This “Rules of the road at sea” course provides guidance on actions to take in day-to-day traffic situations at sea, during daylight and at night.
Selection, assessment and purchase of power sources and implements
01/06/2021
As households that own equipment and draught animals are monetizing agricultural support services, a hire service business is increasingly being viewed as a viable career option for small-scale farmers and aspiring entrepreneurs. This course provides guidance on the technical aspects as well as the business acumen required to set up and run a successful hire service business.
Small-scale agricultural mechanization hire services as a business enterprise
01/06/2021
This course aims to present the provision of farm mechanization services as a viable business opportunity, in an environmentally sensitive and responsible way. It introduces the benefits of mechanization for smallholder farmers, the role of hire services in farm mechanization and the characteristics of a hire service business, in the context of sustainable crop production...
Managing a hire service as a business
01/06/2021
Mechanization hire service managers and machinery service providers need to know well the running of a hire service as a business, considering the essential concepts of organizational management. This course analyses the areas of diagnosis, planning, organization, leadership and control needed to manage a mechanization hire service business in an environmentally friendly way.
Local area and market assessment
01/06/2021
Managing or starting a hire service business requires a deep understanding of the local context in which owners/managers work or intend to work. This course defines practical steps for conducting a local area, support services, and financial assessment, providing examples of findings.
Introduction to forest and landscape restoration
01/05/2021
Degradation of forests and landscapes impacts the global climate, and also the food security and livelihoods of communities. Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) is a process which brings stakeholders together to create healthy, resilient and productive landscapes and meet national, regional and global commitments.
Monitoring forest and landscape restoration
01/04/2021
As countries work to meet their national commitments to restoring degraded landscapes, it is important that all FLR interventions have manageable monitoring systems in place, to assess progress towards specific goals, support adaptive management and ensure transparency. This course has been developed to equip practitioners with the capacity to design, plan and implement monitoring systems...
Sustainable financing of Forest and Landscape Restoration
01/03/2021
To meet countries’ national commitments to restoring degraded landscapes, adequate public and private investments are needed to support the different steps of the FLR cycle. This course has been developed to improve the awareness and capacities of practitioners and policy makers to analyse FLR financial needs and opportunities, so that they are more effective...
Monitoring and preventing ciguatera poisoning
01/12/2020
Ciguatera poisoning is one of the most common foodborne illnesses related to consumption of fishery products, caused by ingesting seafood that have been contaminated by ciguatoxins (CTXs). This course is designed to help learners understand the ecology of the causative organisms, as well as the potential hazard of fish contamination and consequent illnesses.
Creating an enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems
01/12/2020
This course illustrates the importance of responsible investment in agriculture and food systems as well as the scope and content of the CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems (CSA-RIA).
Fisheries and aquaculture response to emergencies (FARE)
01/12/2020
Fisheries and aquaculture responses to emergencies (FARE) are often mistargeted or may undermine the stability of the sector. An understanding of how the different areas of this sector relate to each other and to food security and livelihoods is critical for planning prior to emergencies, mounting an integrated emergency response, immediately after emergencies...
Tenure security for better forestry: Applying the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure
01/12/2020
Governments and development actors increasingly recognize that strengthening tenure can create powerful incentives for the sustainable use of forest resources and contribute to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change.
A guide to developing a resilient watershed management plan
01/12/2020
This course presents the basic principles and concepts related to resilient watershed management, and, through the description of a case study, practically illustrates the process for formulating a resilient watershed management plan, from the analysis of the enabling environment to the definition of the risk management measures to implement.