2024 Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Solutions Forum

 

 

The 2024 Pacific SIDS Solutions Forum, co-organized with the Government of Fiji, is a major international forum with the aim at supporting the Pacific countries’ agrifood systems transformation. The theme of the high-level gathering is ‘Transforming Agrifood Systems for our Blue Pacific Continent through Better Production, Better Nutrition, a Better Environment and a Better Life’. The Forum seeks to encourage innovative intra and interregional knowledge exchange to incubate, promote, scale up and replicate ideas to accelerate the achievement of agriculture, food, nutrition, environment and health-related Sustainable Development Goals.

The Forum will be the largest of its kind ever to be held in the Pacific. It will build on the success of the 2021 SIDS Solutions Forum, which was also co-hosted by Fiji, as well as the 2022 Pacific SIDS Solutions Forum co-hosted by Samoa, and the Fourth International Conference on SIDS held in May this year in Antigua and Barbuda. The Prime Minister of Fiji, His Excellency Sitiveni Rabuka, is one of many political world leaders participating at the event, along with ministers and other high-level dignitaries from the region and beyond.  FAO Director-General Dr. QU Dongyu will attend in-person. Hundreds of people are expected to attend physically and virtually, including public policymakers and practitioners, international donors, community leaders, agri-entrepreneurs, investors, and private sector stakeholders. 

The Government of Fiji will co-host the event with FAO and the forum will take place at the Sheraton Fiji Golf & Beach Resort, Nadi, Fiji, from 5-8 November.

 

#sidssolutions

 

REGISTER HERE TO ATTEND THE FORUM ONSITE OR ONLINE

 

 

Main objective of the Forum 

The objective of the 2024 Pacific SIDS Solutions Forum is to strengthen, promote and optimize enablers that can catalyze better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life ensuring that no one in the Pacific is left behind. 

 

Target audience

The Forum targets researchers, policymakers, representatives of international organizations, International Financial Institutions, civil society, producer groups, innovators and development practitioners, private sector, UN and Council of the Regional Organizations of the Pacific (CROP) Agencies. The Forum aims to attract and involve youth and women, and it expects the presence of FAO Director-General and Fiji Prime Minister, as well as Pacific Ministers and senior officials from Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry, Environment/Climate Change, Health, Education, ICT and Finance. 

 

Main themes

The Forum will focus on six interlinked thematic areas to enhance better production, better nutrition, better nutrition and a better life:

• Investment opportunities that draw on the FAO Hand in Hand Initiative (HIHI)
• Agrifood systems transformation agenda
• FAO One Country One Priority Product initiative (OCOP)
• Science and innovation
• Digitalization of agrifood systems
• Creative partnerships  

Register Webcast