Proposed by the Government of Italy and led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Food Coalition is a global voluntary alliance and coordination mechanism open to all stakeholders who are interested in supporting coordinated action to safeguard food security and nutrition and promote sustainable agrifood systems transformation in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic.
As a flexible coordination mechanism, the Food Coalition promotes and coordinates responses to national needs and priorities: horizontally across thematic areas of work, and vertically from local to global levels, including among all relevant UN agencies, International Organizations, non-State actors; thus also facilitating innovative multi-actor and multi-country initiatives.
The Food Coalition was created also with the aim to support existing FAO efforts to help countries get back on track to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular Goals 1 and 2 on eradicating hunger and poverty. The Food Coalition is not an autonomous legal entity.
Proposed by the Government of Italy and led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Food Coalition is a multi-stakeholder global alliance, a network of networks which facilitates unified global action in response to and recovery from COVID-19.
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