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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ICARRD+20: Putting women’s land rights back on the agrarian reform agenda?
16 March 2026 - Twenty years after landmark global commitments, ICARRD+20 spotlights how persistent gender inequalities in land ownership continue to undermine rural development - and calls for urgent reforms to secure women’s land rights as a cornerstone of resilient, equitable food systems
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Governance and forest monitoring: A shift in approach
10 March 2026 - Understanding institutions, power and coordination is proving essential to making national forest monitoring systems work. Read and watch recent highlights from Marco Mezzera, a Governance Specialist with the Global Forest Observations Initiative
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Advancing policy coherence for agrifood systems transformation - Emerging lessons from ten countries
2026
This publication examines how policy coherence is being advanced in practice to enable agrifood systems transformation, drawing on experiences from ten countries. It explores the continuous and iterative processes that countries are following to align agriculture, climate, biodiversity, nutrition and equity agendas and translate shared goals into policy processes, institutional arrangements and coordinated action across sectors and levels of governance.
Institutional frameworks for family farming - Comparative analysis of case studies, Indonesia and Portugal
2026
This analysis examines the case studies on the regulatory frameworks adopted by Indonesia and Portugal for the recognition of family farming, identifying success factors, institutional challenges, and recommendations to strengthen institutional frameworks aimed at supporting family farming.The experiences of Indonesia and Portugal illustrate the importance of institutional frameworks in strengthening family farming. I
Governance pathways for public-private investment in South Sudan’s agrifood systems
2026
This issue brief examines how stronger governance, institutional coordination, and investment readiness can unlock the vast untapped potential of South Sudan’s agrifood systems, which remain constrained by fragility and limited private sector participation despite abundant natural resources and a largely agriculture-dependent population.
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