Getting started| FAO Digital Services Portfolio | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Getting started

This section provides a description of the overall logic of the DSP and guidance how to implement it through as well as providing relevant material for this. The documentation package embedded through the following different sub sections developed will support roles, responsibilities, and implementation approaches and the setup required to maintain the DSP in the country in the short, middle and long term.

The target users are governments, ministries, experts, practitioners in the field of food and agriculture and extension services’ providers in the field, working in the food and agriculture sectors, interested in learning how to implement successfully FAO Digital Services Portfolio. This set of tools is meant to help local businesses and smallholder farmers improve their competitive advantage while adopting effective strategies and solutions thanks to direct access to updated and timely information. In addition, the information contained in this section can be used by FAO country offices in their programmatic work, development agencies and national authorities in designing and delivering technical assistance programmes to improve national/local resource efficiency, management and planning in the agricultural sector.

Note that the implementation of the DSP application should be driven by the country’s needs and its initial baseline situation, and therefore, some steps can be implemented at different degrees of complexity and depth, tailored to each specific situation and in alignment with the national/local stakeholders' visions and goals.

The following DSP managing modules presentations are the modules designed to give countries independence and major flexibility in managing the structure of the application, the definition of the key advisory messages based on their local needs (administrative and others), as well as managing the content and themes. They should be able to do that and keep progressing autonomously, after FAO´s first guidance or even without