The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is organizing the first-ever Global Conference on Sustainable Plant Production (GPC) with the theme Innovation, Efficiency and Resilience, on 2-4 November 2022. The GPC will provide a neutral forum for FAO Members, farmers, scientists, development agencies, policy makers, extensionists, civil society, opinion leaders, and the private sector for focused dialogues on innovation that creates efficient plant production systems with resilience to biotic and abiotic stresses, climate change, natural hazards and geopolitical disruptions. Tomorrow's agriculture will need to produce more food with less environmental footprints and contribute to strong local and diversified agrifood systems that are more resilient to shocks and disruptions.

The GPC will generate authoritative evidence for actions to realize the goals of FAO Strategic Framework 2022-31 for the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems for better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life, leaving no one behind, thus contributing to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDGs 1, 2 and 12.

    

Objectives of the conference

• Raise awareness of the contribution of sustainable plant production to implementing FAO Strategic Framework 2022-31, to attain the SDGs at global, regional and national levels.
• Share information and knowledge on the strategic direction and technical developments in sustainable plant production worldwide.
• Demonstrate FAO’s technical leadership and convening power to support its Members for sustainable plant production.
• Provide a neutral platform and technical networks on sustainable plant production for demand-driven and context-specific multi-stakeholder dialogues.

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