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The FAO Strategy for Private Sector Engagement (2026-2030) was endorsed by the174th Session of the FAO Council. With its endorsement, the Council has marked a significant milestone in positioning FAO with a refreshed and constructive engagement model. This decision reflects FAO’s commitment to building stronger, more transparent, and action-oriented partnerships with the private sector in support of the FAO Four Betters.  A stronger vision for partnershipsBuilding on more than a decade of progress in private sector collaboration, the updated Strategy introduces renewed modalities to enhance efficiency, agility and accountability in private sector engagement. It emphasizes decentralization, ensuring regional and country-level priorities are fully integrated. Key updates include: Enhanced transparency and reporting through the expanded FAO CONNECT Portal and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Salesforce system. Greater agility, accountability, and synergies to ensure private sector engagement contributes meaningfully to FAO’s field activities. Improved efficiencies through a streamlined FAO’s Due Diligence Framework for Risk Assessment and Management...

1.    Introduction In 2025, the Private Sector Advisory Group (PSAG) convened two meetings to advance FAO’s engagement with the private sector on global food security and nutrition. The first session launched the information-gathering phase for shaping the FAO Strategy for Private Sector Engagement 2026–2030 (the Strategy), focusing on partnerships for resilient, inclusive, and climate-smart food systems. The second session explored the private sector’s role in global governance through the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), stressing early engagement, evidence-based policymaking, and practical uptake of CFS tools. Together, these dialogues highlighted shared priorities: climate action, inclusivity for smallholders and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), technology-driven...

Unity is the cornerstone of FAO’s mission to address global challenges and achieve food security and nutrition for all, leaving no one behind. This report summarizes FAO’s partnership activities with non-state actors in 2024 – including academia and research institutions, civil society organizations and the private sector – exploring how FAO and its partners work together for transformative outcomes, guided by the framework of FAO’s four betters. It presents key data on partnership achievements, from the number and global distribution of partnerships to success stories that illustrate how these alliances address the complexity of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....

To accelerate agrifood systems transformation across Asia and the Pacific, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Grow Asia have renewed their partnership through a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed virtually this week. Building on the achievements and learnings of the previous MoU (2021–2024), the new phase of partnership will focus on enhancing the resilience, inclusiveness and sustainability of agrifood systems in the region. FAO and Grow Asia have collaborated closely in recent years, bringing together FAO’s technical expertise and Grow Asia’s multistakeholder network spanning six country partnerships and more than 775 partners. The joint initiatives...

A cocoa cupping competition in East Sepik, Papua New Guinea, brought nine British specialty buyers and boutique chocolatiers to taste chocolates made from 39 Sepik cocoa producer samples. Judges and visitors praised the beans’ consistent processing and A-grade export quality, signalling strong market interest.