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The economic importance of the tea industry has grown during the pandemic but it must confront key challenges, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu tells the 24th Session of Intergovernmental Group on Tea...
Targeting indigenous communities, including women and youth...
AgrInvest-Food Systems Project: Supporting market development of women-led organizations in Kenya
27/01/2022
27/01/2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), is implementing the project “AgrInvest - Enabling inclusive and efficient private sector investment in agri-food systems” (AgrInvest-FS), to foster SDG-aligned investments in agri-food systems in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya and the Niger.
In Kenya, the project identified African indigenous vegetables...
FAO has just released a new publication on the 'Integration of environment and nutrition in life cycle assessment of food items: opportunities and challenges', with major contributions from more than 30 researchers around the world.
Today’s agri-food systems are failing in terms of their contribution the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Increasing rates...
Multi-stakeholder collaboration: Way forward for food systems transformation in the Mediterranean
14/12/2021
14/12/2021
The UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) generated a wave of food systems transformation that inspired the conversation at the third Independent UNFSS Dialogue organized by the SFS-MED Platform on Thursday, 9 December 2021. Focusing on “Pathways...