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Multistakeholder Guide Underscores Crucial Role for Collaboration in A Food Systems Approach
10/05/2023
Three United Nations Agencies, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Environmental Programmed (UNEP) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) held an engaging side event, on their upcoming Guide to Multi
Multi-stakeholder collaboration furthers work towards sustainable food systems in the Mediterranean
04/05/2023
Regional multi-stakeholder collaboration was at the heart of a recent event that took place at the margins of the 4th Global Conference of the One Planet Network’s Sustainable Food Systems Programme. The event highlighted how cross-country and multi-stake
Cultivating Resilience: Empowering Female Pineapple Farmers and stakeholders in Suriname
03/05/2023
 Gender challenges in the Pineapple Value Chain in Suriname Suriname is a small, multi-ethnic country in South America, renowned for its tropical rainforests that cover over 80% of its land. In and at the edge of its forests, the pineapple value chain is
World Food Forum 2023 will champion youth leadership in agrifood systems transformation to accelerate climate action
27/04/2023
16-20 October 2023 global events in Rome to include the WFF Global Youth Forum, the FAO Hand-in-Hand Forum and the FAO Science and Innovation Forum...
Multi-stakeholder collaboration for more sustainable food systems in the Mediterranean
19/04/2023
Date and time: Wednesday, 26 April 2023, 13:00-14:30 CEST (18:00-19:30 GMT+7) Registration link: Click here / Streaming link: Click here Live interpretation in English, French and Arabic will be provided. The main objective of this side event is to showca
Voices from the Cities within Multi-level Governance mechanisms
19/04/2023
Voices from the Cities within Multi-level Governance mechanisms...
Guiding multi-stakeholder collaboration for sustainable food systems transformation
19/04/2023
Food systems involve complex challenges, whose scale and nature call for a systemic, multi-level and multi-stakeholder participatory approach across economic, social and environmental dimensions.In response to this, the United Nations Environment Programm
The Transformation We Need
18/04/2023
24 - 27 April | "The Transformation We Need", 4th global conference of the Sustainable Food Systems Programme.FOLLOW THE LIVESTREAM HEREWhy are our food systems unsustainable? How should we transform them? And finally, how can we emerge from global crises
Women’s equality in agrifood systems could boost the global economy by $1 trillion, reduce food insecurity by 45 million: new FAO report
13/04/2023
Agrifood systems are a major employer of women globally and constitute a more important source of livelihood for women than for men in many countries...
Latest IPCC report highlights the critical need to transform agrifood systems as a way to mitigate and adapt to climate change
20/03/2023
FAO’s Strategy on Climate Change 2022-31 supports countries to make agrifood systems more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable...
Food safety is an outcome of an agrifood system
07/03/2023
“As we transform agrifood systems, food safety is one of the things we have to get right,” says FAO Food Systems and Food Safety Division Director Corinna Hawkes in a video message recorded in early March to invite participation in World Food Safety Day t
Towards more sustainable agrifood systems in the Black Sea and beyond
07/03/2023
The Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) Conference in İstanbul to present food systems assessments and explore next stepsİstanbul, Türkiye – The Regional Conference on Food Systems Sustainability in the Black Sea Region, organized by the Regional Cooper
FAO and UNIDO launch global Agrifood Systems Transformation Accelerator (ASTA)
06/03/2023
Programme aims to improve food security and nutrition in Least Developed Countries...
Consumers are key for transforming food systems and fostering the Mediterranean Diet
22/02/2023
The role of conssumers in shaping healthier and more sustainable food systems was discussed during a technical webinar organized by the SFS-MED Platform...
Africa requires a collective effort to transform the continent’s agrifood systems and end malnutrition, QU Dongyu tells AU Summit
17/02/2023
FAO Director-General addresses high-level side event in Addis Ababa...
Albania, Jordan, and Morocco: FAO project to accelerate food systems transformation pathways
26/01/2023
Support from Italy enables multi-stakeholder approaches to sustainable food systems in the MediterraneanAmman/Rabat/Rome/Tirana – Food systems stakeholders in Albania, Jordan, and Morocco have gotten a boost from a project funded by the Ministry of Foreig
At GFFA in Berlin, FAO stresses importance of making agrifood systems more resilient against multiple shocks
21/01/2023
FAO’s work and vision were highlighted in several panels as well as the final communiqué...
Leveraging urban and local agrifood systems for sustainable transformation
20/01/2023
FAO hosts panel discussion at Global Forum for Food and Agriculture in Berlin
A sustainable transformation of urban food systems: FAO Expert Panel at the 2023 Global Forum for Food and Agriculture
17/01/2023
Leveraging urban and local food systems for sustainable food systems transformation...
SFS-MED Webinar 4 - Consumers and Mediterranean diet: towards food systems transformation
16/01/2023
On Thursday 26 January 2023 at 9.30 AM (CET), FAO is co-hosting the SFS-MED Webinar 4: Consumers and Mediterranean diet: towards food systems transformation.The webinar is organized under the framework of the SFS-MED platform, and it will bring together s