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The decisions behind our diets
What gets produced, subsidised and regulated shapes what ends up on our plates – and so does the everyday choice between what is good for us and what we can afford. In an interview with FAO’s The Work We Do podcast, Lynnette Neufeld argues that achieving healthy diets requires stronger agrifood governance and greater policy coherence
BLOG
Who gets the water? Inside the governance debate reshaping tenure and resilience

Across rivers, aquifers and irrigation systems, governments and communities are confronting deeper questions: who has the right to water, who decides, and how can those decisions remain fair as climate change reshapes the world’s water supply?
Read the blog by Benjamin Kiersch

NEWS
Morocco seeks stronger water-agriculture coordination amid growing scarcity
A high-level dialogue in Rabat brought together water and agriculture officials and experts to explore stronger coordination and governance approaches for balancing food production with Morocco’s increasingly scarce water resources
VIDEO
Brazil’s Feeding Cities strategy: connecting policies, transforming systems
This video explores how an innovative strategy brings together food security, climate action, biodiversity and social equity through coordinated action across all levels of government in Brazil and strong engagement with civil society
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Indonesia and FAO launch governance training initiative to strengthen agrifood systems transformation
With more than 84,000 villages at the heart of the country's food security and poverty reduction efforts, the initiative strengthens officials’ capacity to turn national priorities into evidence-based action on the ground

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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The decisions behind our diets

31 August 2026 - What gets produced, subsidised and regulated shapes what ends up on our plates – and so does the everyday choice between what is good for us and what we can afford. In an interview with FAO's The Work We Do podcast, Lynnette Neufeld argues that achieving healthy diets requires stronger agrifood governance and greater policy coherence

News
Morocco seeks stronger water-agriculture coordination amid growing scarcity

15 June 2026 - A high-level dialogue in Rabat brought together water and agriculture officials and experts to explore stronger coordination and governance approaches for balancing food production with Morocco’s increasingly scarce water resources.

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Transforming food and agriculture through a systems approach

Aug 13, 2025, 11:37 AM
The purpose of this report is to clarify what a systems approach involves in practice across agrifood systems. It explains what a systems approach means in the context of agrifood systems, why it matters and how to adopt it. It advances the operationalization of a systems approach by outlining the key shifts needed to embed systems thinking into policies, programmes, projects, and interventions and illustrating how countries, regions and municipalities are putting these shifts into practice.
Title : Transforming food and agriculture through a systems approach
Link to External Url : https://doi.org/10.4060/cd6071en
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*Publication Date : Jul 22, 2025, 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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