The subprogramme will develop global products and complement ongoing FFS activities under projects “Building Local Resilience in Syria (BLRS)” (GCP /SYR/030/UK) and “PROMOVE Agribiz” (GCP /MOZ/127/EC) to pilot-test the products before further scaling.
The subprogramme aims at having integrated, multi-sectoral food safety policies, official control measures and legislation across national agrifood systems adopted and implemented by Governments and enhanced capacities and awareness of value chain operators and consumers.
The project will increase awareness and capacities of public and private institutions to include nutrition-relevant criteria into financing mechanisms for SMEs producing nutritious food and investment strategies for wholesale markets where many SMEs operates.
The subprogramme contributes to the Dominica Climate Resilience and Recovery Plan 2020-2030 by strengthening the effectiveness and the EWS integrating tailored information on sustainable agricultural practices and water management strategies.
This subprogramme will help Governments optimize their limited public expenditures in food and agriculture to accelerate agricultural transformation, with a focus on reducing the cost of healthy diets and increasing people’s incomes, ensuring that healthy diets are affordable to all, while simultaneously increasing agrifood output, creating off-farm jobs in rural areas, and lifting people out of poverty.
The proposed subprogramme leverages existing opportunities – increased demand for sustainable and deforestation-free wood, coffee and cocoa – to support the sustainable development and expansion of more productive and climate resilient smallholder deforestation-free agri-food systems and improved livelihoods.
The Data Lab is collaborating with the loss and damage team in the Statistics Division (ESS) to complement the global level assessment of disaster impacts (as presented in the new FAO flagship report on The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security) by validating outputs through country level analysis of agricultural losses. The Data Lab would use FVC funds to support three major endeavours.
Placing a substantial programme and policy focus on encouraging youth engagement in non-farm jobs is imperative and as crucial as supporting youth employment in the farming sector.
This project will generate transformational changes in people, processes, and markets to revitalize planning and implementation capacities of the next generation of leaders on sustainable agrifood systems transformation in three countries, in Lesotho, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
This intervention will help to catalyze the formulation and implementation of national food system transformation pathways in the sub-region. In addition to building on the opportunities provided by the African Union Agenda 2063, the African Union CAADP and AfCFTA, the proposed program will further enhance FAO’s contribution to the Africa Regional Collaborative Platform (RCP).
