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Customary governance and youth leadership take root in global land restoration efforts
At FAO's World Food Forum 2025, young innovators and Indigenous Peoples' representatives called for governance reforms that include their voices in land restoration strategies
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Governance and multistakeholder engagement at the heart of SDG progress
The upcoming FAO's HASTEN lecture will highlight how collaborative governance can accelerate agrifood systems transformation
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FAO proposes innovative financial solutions to accelerate the transformation of agrifood systems
The event "Unlocking Finance for Agrifood Systems Transformation" seeks to foster partnerships, showcase scalable solutions, and attract strategic financing for the development of Latin America and the Caribbean
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Strong governance holds the key to resilient agrifood systems
New HLPE-FSN findings show that coordinated policies, multiscalar governance, and inclusive programmes are essential to building equitable, climate-resilient, and sustainable agrifood systems worldwide

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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Governance and multistakeholder engagement at the heart of SDG progress

7 November 2025 - The upcoming FAO's HASTEN lecture will highlight how collaborative governance can accelerate agrifood systems transformation

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FAO proposes innovative financial solutions to accelerate the transformation of agrifood systems

7 November 2025 - The event "Unlocking Finance for Agrifood Systems Transformation" seeks to foster partnerships, showcase scalable solutions, and attract strategic financing for the development of Latin America and the Caribbean

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Spending smarter on food and agriculture - Making public spending more effective with FAO's policy optimization tool

Apr 10, 2025, 14:29 PM
FAO’s Policy Optimization Tool (PolOpT) empowers governments to reallocate their public budgets on food and agriculture, repurposing limited resources into powerful drivers of change to achieve more agricultural transformation, and better food security and nutrition in an era of tight fiscal constraints. PolOpT uses advanced modelling techniques to generate tailored country spending scenarios, showing governments and policymakers insights into optimizing spending across key areas.
Title : Spending smarter on food and agriculture - Making public spending more effective with FAO's policy optimization tool
Link to External Url : https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/cd3674en
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*Publication Date : Dec 10, 2024, 12:00 PM

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Policy and governance are closely interrelated: they are both concerned with addressing problems that are important to large numbers of people.

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