Innovating for a Better Future
FAO envisions innovation at the heart of achieving sustainable, efficient, resilient and inclusive agrifood systems — ensuring people, nature and economies thrive. Essential to the SDGs, the FAO Strategic Framework 2022–31 positions innovation as one of the main catalysts for transformation.
Through its Office of Innovation, FAO is mainstreaming innovation across programmes, fostering collaboration through co-creation FAO, and forging transformative partnerships to drive systemic change. FAO embraces all types of innovation — from high-tech to frugal solutions — contextualizing them to support Members States and their local communities in their innovation journey.
Through science and innovation, FAO can effectively deliver on the Four Betters: better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life for all — leaving no one behind.
Our approach
FAO is exploring emerging trends, catalyzing ideas into practice and scaling solutions systemically with a focus on democratizing science, technology and innovation.
Impact requires scale and scaling innovation requires the understanding that one size does not fit all. FAO applies global expertise to local realities by fostering transformative partnerships and needs-based tailored solutions.
From digital tools, biotechnologies and community-driven innovations like Farmer Field Schools 2.0., as well as to policy support, research and acceleration programmes, innovation must be people-centred, demand-driven and market-based to be effective.
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Contact
Vincent Martin
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