Partners
Partnerships play a great role towards achieving FAO's work under the FAO conceptual framework for integrated land and water resources management and towards eradicating hunger and malnutrition. They are central to the Organization's work, underpinning effective implementation across regions and contexts. In turn, FAO offers its partners the opportunity to engage in leading initiatives and efforts at the forefront of tackling Zero Hunger.
By leveraging the complementary strengths of stakeholders across governments, civil society, academia, research institutions and the private sector, these partnerships facilitate coordinated and precise action on land, soil and water resources to advance sustainable agriculture, food security and rural development.
FAO’s commitment to Sustainable Development Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Partnerships connect policy with practice, global goals with local action and technical expertise with on-the-ground impact. By strengthening its partners, FAO continues to mobilize resources, expand knowledge, optimize data and information, and organize action to implement interventions that move towards ending global hunger.
Some of these partnerships include:
- Global Soil Partnership (GSP)
- Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture (WASAG)
- World Agriculture Watch (WAW)
- World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT)
- United Nations (UN) Coalitions and initiatives, including but not limited to:
- UN-Water
- UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (GGIM) and UN-GeoNetwork
- UN Coalition to Combat Sand and Dust Storms
- United Nations Convention on Combating Desertification (UNCCD) Drought Initiative
- Water and Climate Coalition
- UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021- 2030
- UN Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028
- UN One Health agenda
- International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development” 2018-2028
- Resource partners, e.g. Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Global Environment Facility (GEF), European Union, South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC), etc.
FAO-hosted partnerships
Global Soil Partnership
The GSP is a globally recognized mechanism established in 2012 with the mission to position soils in the Global Agenda and to promote sustainable soil management.
WASAG
The Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture has been designed to bring together key players across the globe and from different sectors to tackle the collective challenge of improving water usage in agriculture to ensure food security for all.
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World Agriculture Watch (WAW)
The World Agriculture Watch (WAW), hosted by FAO, is an initiative which provides a harmonized methodological framework to describe the diversity of farms, regardless of their size, statute, or combination of productions.