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The FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, the President of SFNV’s Steering Committee, Marie-France Tschudin, and SFNV’s Chief Executive Officer, Christina Senn-Jakobsen, signed a Letter of Intent to create mechanisms to develop innovative solutions to address the root causes and mitigate the consequences of agrifood systems challenges that currently constrain progress. Switzerland’s thriving food ecosystem is developing a wealth of innovations to tackle some of the most pressing global food challenges. FAO and SFNV will establish a closer collaboration in the areas of innovation, healthy diets and nutrition. The new FAO-SFNV collaboration will focus on: Innovative solutions: Creating a mechanism to identify, develop, refine, and...

Wewak, Papua New Guinea – Along the picturesque banks of the Sepik River in the Angoram District of East Sepik Province in Papua New Guinea, lies a small community where the power of innovation is creating ripples of change. At the heart of this community stands Tina Savinio, a determined woman leading the Kandangapma Women's Business Group. Thanks to the support from the EU-STREIT PNG Programme, Tina and her group have experienced remarkable improvements in their livelihoods, nutrition, and overall well-being. The Kandangapma Women's Business Group was empowered through comprehensive training on group business management, group dynamics, financial literacy, ICT skills, Family...

In food security and agricultural development, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in supporting vulnerable populations. However, they often face significant challenges in accessing financial resources, with women-owned businesses particularly struggling to secure credit and liquidity, making them more vulnerable to market disruptions. Addressing the gender gap in agriculture is vital. FAO’s 2023 report on "The Status of Women in Agrifood Systems" highlights that reducing disparities in farm productivity and wage employment could increase global GDP by 1% (nearly USD 1 trillion) and decrease global food insecurity by 2 percentage points, lifting approximately 45 million people out of...

Ensuring food security and nutrition for all involves complex, interrelated challenges – and close partnerships with a full spectrum of entities. To open the doors of discussion, FAO has launched a series of Partnership Dialogues, which invite FAO’s non-state actor partners to exchange with FAO on key topics of global interest in the context of food security governance and agrifood systems. The first session, held on 31 May 2024, welcomed FAO’s Informal Private Sector Advisory Group (PSAG) members to discuss views from the private sector on FAO's global roadmap to achieving SDG2 without breaching the 1.5ºC threshold. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal...

Private sector organizations engaged in discussions to draft their statement to ERC34 during consultations led by FAO in Brussels, and hosted by Copa-Cogeca, for EU-based private sector organizations on 15 April, and a second FAO consultation in Istanbul on 18 April, hosted by the Federation of Food & Drink Industry Associations of Türkiye, for non-EU-based private sector organizations.