The proposed FAO project aims to challenge gender discriminatory norms, enhance gender equality, and foster inclusive and sustainable agrifood systems in Barbados, Kenya and Uganda.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) are calling upon countries to take comprehensive and transformative actions to integrate gender considerations into climate change, biodiversity, and environmental policies and programmes.
The extension of the subprogramme FMM/GLO/159/MUL will mainstream digital agriculture innovation in two countries (Ethiopia and Morocco), aiming to support the digital transformation of their agrifood systems for a) increasing productivity, b) better managing climate risks, c) favouring the sustainable development of rural economies (environmental, economic and social).
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).
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.
The project, which is a contribution to the sectoral objectives of "securing livestock production" in the government programs of the Republics of Senegal and Mali, will be implemented by the FAO Sub-regional Office for West Africa, in collaboration with the technical ministries in charge of livestock production in these countries.
The subprogramme addresses parts of the resource requirements towards the implementation of the MYPOW as reviewed by the Commission at its Nineteenth Regular Session.
A transformation toward sustainable and resilient systems is imperative to ensure food security, livelihoods, and economic prosperity. The main objective of the subprogramme is to enhance an enabling environment for interventions that are able to address interlinked challenges and ensure a holistic approach that optimizes synergies and reduces trade-offs.
The subprogramme will also address the economic and sustainability issues facing the tea sector. There is a need for a transformational change in the tea sector. This can be achieved by boosting the small tea growers’ participation in the global tea value chain, and by empowering women and youth for improved food security and nutrition.
This subprogramme will help the FAO's Digital Villages Initiative (DVI) to expand its reach, consolidating activities in Malawi and Zimbabwe, where it has already started, and initiating activities in Rwanda, a new country where it was not officially previously operating.
