Transforming food and agriculture for sustainable development
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls for a bold, transformational change to achieve a world that is more inclusive, fair, sustainable and resilient. It’s a world free of hunger and extreme poverty, one that protects the sustainable use of biodiversity, natural resources and ecosystem services for development.
This corporate portal is a gateway to FAO’s policy and governance support work to build sustainable food systems that can help countries achieve the vision of the 2030 Agenda. FAO, itself the world’s leading forum for policy dialogue, promotes evidence-based policymaking from national to regional and global levels as countries prioritize challenges, implement decisions and monitor their effectiveness.
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New report highlights critical food system trends and challenges in countdown to 2030
14 January 2025 - The Food Systems Countdown Initiative report identifies governance and resilience as pivotal leverage points for food system transformation

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PARLATINO approves groundbreaking model law to promote agroecology
7 January 2025 - The new legislative framework paves the way for more sustainable agrifood systems by applying ecological principles to agriculture and the regenerative use of natural resources
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The food systems countdown report 2024 - Tracking progress and managing interactions
2025
The Food Systems Countdown Initiative aims to monitor the state of food systems transformation through relevant data, independent of any established monitoring processes. This brief presents the Countdown indicators depicting the current state of national food systems. In doing so, it provides a starting point for future work to identify where things can be done better, provide ideas for how to get there, and inspire stakeholders (in particular, policymakers) that progress can and must be made.

El Niño impacts and policies for the fisheries sector
2024
This brochure describes the impacts of the natural climate phenomenon El Niño on the fisheries sector. It provides information on the changes in catches for various regions globally and includes specific impacts on the three subsectors: marine capture fisheries; aquaculture; and freshwater fisheries. It includes four case studies on Peruvian anchoveta fishery, tuna fisheries in the Pacific, elkhorn seamoss aquaculture in the Philippines and coastal shrimp fisheries in Ecuador.

The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2024 - Trade and nutrition: policy coherence for healthy diets
2024
The 2024 edition of The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets (SOCO 2024) explores complex linkages between food trade and nutrition and generates evidence to identify how trade affects dietary patterns and nutritional outcomes. The report examines the intersection of trade policies and nutrition measures and provides policy makers with an understanding of how to address nutrition objectives in the changing landscape of global food systems.
POLICY & GOVERNANCE
Policy and governance are closely interrelated: they are both concerned with addressing problems that are important to large numbers of people.
Nevertheless, both concepts differ: policy is an output and outcome of diverse governance processes.
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