This report explores how food cold chain development can become more sustainable and makes a series of important recommendations. These include governments and other cold chain stakeholders collaborating to adopt a systems approach and develop National Cooling Action Plans, backing [...]

This report for Seychelles looks at the potential for sustainable bioenergy within the country, considering the country context, conditions and delicate habitat, following the bioenergy and food security (BEFS) approach of FAO, and identifies a number of bioenergy pathways relevant [...]

This report presents a model crop residue value chain that can support the collection, transport, storage of rice straw which can enable productive uses of rice straw. Moreover, it estimates the quantity of rice straw produced in each district in [...]

This report, jointy developed by IRENA and FAO, explores the role of renewable energy used in food chain to advance energy and food security as well as climate action towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. [...]

This report presents a structured approach to identify and estimate the market size of specific renewable energy technologies that have the potential to be deployed across specific stages of the agri-food chains. The methodology is illustrated with the case of [...]

La Estrategia sobre el Cambio Climático de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) reconoce que las acciones sobre el cambio climático son clave para erradicar el hambre, la inseguridad al¬imentaria y la desnutrición. [...]

Identifying sustainable sources of renewable energy is key to ensuring that countries can grow on a sustainable path that also meets climate change targets as outlined in countries’ NDCs.  Among renewables, bioenergy can attract investments in the rural sector and help [...]

This new publication on potential bioenergy options for Zambia describes an assessment of the potential to use bioenergy for electricity generation using off-grid solutions, modern biofuels for cooking and the production of liquid biofuels for the transport sector. Possible options originating [...]

Under the Safe Access to Fuel and Energy (SAFE) programme, FAO has contributed to improving resilience and livelihoods for refugees and internally displaced people in 14 countries through four types of activities: clean cooking, forest management, renewable energy in agri-food [...]

Preliminary outcomes from multi-stakeholders consultations in sub-Saharan Africa This working paper presents the preliminary outcomes of a project that FAO has been conducting in a collaborative effort with IEA Bioenergy and with the financial support of GIZ, to promote “International dialogues [...]