FAO launched the One Country One Priority Product (OCOP) Initiative in 2021 to address the current and emerging challenges, to promote inclusive, profitable, and environmentally sustainable agrifood systems through the development of Special Agricultural Products (SAPs).
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 subprogramme aims to accelerate the progress on multisectoral collaboration on nutrition and agrifood systems transformation in the Central Asia subregion by supporting the countries in the development of Food System Based Dietary Guidelines (FSBDGs) which are an innovative tool to combine the advantages of food system analysis, nutrition education and nutrition mainstreaming into cross-sectoral policies.
The subprogramme aims at informing global policy design on strengthening the resilience of Indigenous and tribal Peoples in the context of climate risks and biodiversity loss, with particular focus on Indigenous Peoples’ food and knowledge systems and the role of social protection programmes in enhancing their resilience.
FAO will continue its approach of involving Indigenous and tribal Peoples in project activities as experts, consultants and partners. FAO will closely coordinate project activities with Indigenous organizations both at the global level (Coalition, Global-Hub) and ensuring the connectivity with the local level (Indigenous and tribal Peoples’ food systems and the Indigenous Peoples’ Biocentric restoration initiative).
By actively translating the KMGBF target 10 on ‘sustainable agriculture’ into national targets, policies, measures and practices tailored to each country’s context, priorities and needs, the subprogramme will promote the alignment of environmental and agricultural action in the context of climate change.
Increased price of imported food and agricultural inputs represent additional challenges for resilience, equitability and sustainability of agri-food systems. Taking advantage of opportunities that innovation and digitalization offer, this proposal intends to minimize the impacts of challenges mentioned above as digital and precision agriculture offer solutions that can be adapted to become affordable and efficient improving crop performance, productivity and profits of small-scale producers.
This proposal focuses on the role of FAO in supporting producer households with a resilience package to enable healthy diets for individuals with greatest vulnerability. While knowledge mobilization targets all 15 countries, the proof-of-concept will cover two countries with the aim of defining the most feasible model for upscaling and replication.
The subprogramme's expected outcome is that equitable access of small-scale producers and family farmers to resources is enhanced, through improved policies, strategies and programmes. The project will be implemented from 2024 to 2025 in 3 countries covering 2 FAO regions. The implementation of the project will collaborate closely with the FAO Decentralized Offices (Regional, Sub-regional and Country offices).
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.
