The escalating impacts of climate change, including water scarcity, pose a critical threat to global agricultural sustainability. As part of the initiatives aimed at addressing this challenge, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed the Value Adding Impact Area (VAIA) “Addressing Water Scarcity in Agriculture and the Environment” (AWSAMe).
The subprogramme seeks to enhance climate resilience and adaptive capacity in rural areas of Uganda and Nepal, targeting communities at high risk of climate-induced migration. It focuses on mitigating the negative effects of climate change and therefore reducing the pressure to migrate out of necessity.
This project aims to fill a critical gap in the availability of harmonized data on the performance of pastoralism in biodiversity and the role women play into the livestock sector.
The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) promotes and facilitates the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of their use.
The World Food Forum has launched the WFF Incubator Youth Food Lab (YFL) as part of the WFF Innovation Track. It aims to bridge the gap between the Transformative Research Challenge with its idea-stage innovations and academic solutions, and the WFF Startup Innovation Awards with its more established startups.
This subprogramme will measure the impacts of FVC funding on beneficiaries’ welfare across a diversity of FVC sub-programmes. This approach entails collecting and analyzing comparable evidence on a diversity of projects within the FVC funding portfolio using rigorous impact evaluation methods.
Start date
01/05/2024
End date
31/12/2025
Recipient / Target Areas
Kenya, Sri Lanka, Syrian Arab Republic, Uganda, Zambia
Agricultural productivity in South Asia is currently low when compared to developed nations. This has led to increased levels of unemployment, malnutrition, food shortages, and poverty. However, minor millets, quinoa, pulses, and oilseed crops have the potential to combat these issues and contribute significantly to building resilient and sustainable food production systems for the future.
The project aims to tap into rural women producers’ potential in contributing (and benefiting from) economic growth, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration. It will do so by working with relevant stakeholders to promote inclusive food and agriculture value chains that are sustainable, resilient, and inclusive.
The project aims at improving post-harvest management in priority agrifood value chains to reduce food loss and waste while contributing to identify critical loss points and potential solutions in transboundary trade in the context of the AfCFTA.
This subprogramme was designed to bring about the sustainable and inclusive transformation of agrifood systems with benefits for the poor and marginalized value chain actors, through systemic, coherent and aligned policies, strategies, and programmes, involving all agrifood systems stakeholders across the rural-urban continuum.
