E-learning Courses
This curated selection of e-learning courses highlights themes and skills relevant to governance in agrifood systems, supporting more inclusive, transparent, and effective policies and institutions. Developed with leading experts together with the FAO elearning Academy, these free, self-paced courses provide knowledge and practical tools tailored to policymakers, practitioners, and stakeholders working to transform agrifood systems for sustainability and resilience.
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Training & e-learning
Focus on governance for more effective policy and technical support
2023
This course maps key features of governance and offers concrete methods for recognizing and managing governance issues related to agrifood systems, as well as for improving the effectiveness of FAO’s technical and policy assistance. The course follows the logic of the four phases of governance analysis developed by FAO and tested in several countries.
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Training & e-learning
Governance in small-scale fisheries
2023
This course aims to contribute towards creating an enabling environment for implementing the FAO Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries (SSF Guidelines) in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication, by strengthening the capacity of government officials and fisheries practitioners at local, national and regional levels, and promoting the development of good governance frameworks.
Training & e-learning
Governance of trade, food security and nutrition
2023
This course discusses policy space for food security in the multilateral trading system and the coherence between policy processes at the national and global levels. It addresses the linkages between trade and food security, which are highly complex and have been subject to intense debates at the national and global levels.
Training & e-learning
Tenure security for better forestry: Applying the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure
2020
Governments and development actors increasingly recognize that strengthening tenure can create powerful incentives for the sustainable use of forest resources and contribute to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change. Based on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (the VGGT) principles, this course is designed to help learners understand and apply key principles for strengthening tenure.
Training & e-learning
How to monitor and promote policy changes on governance of tenure
2016
The course provides guidance on some of the main issues to consider when implementing a monitoring activity, including how to select the most appropriate approach or identify the best data sources for monitoring, and how to effectively communicate the results of the monitoring activity to maximize its impact on policy change.
Training & e-learning
Spatial Planning in the context of the responsible governance of tenure
2015
The course introduces spatial planning, identifying its rationale and benefits, its key principles, and the main stages in the spatial planning process. It represents a useful reference for all those who want to promote and implement spatial planning in their countries as an instrument to reconcile and harmonize different, often conflicting, public and private interests on land, fisheries, and forests.
Training & e-learning
Introduction to the Responsible Governance of Tenure
2013
The course introduces the main concepts and principles of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure. It aims to help people understand the Guidelines and to apply the principles to practical situations in their countries, as well as to raise the general awareness of responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests.
Training & e-learning
Building a gender-responsive policy and legal framework for agricultural investment and supply chains
2023
This course focuses on gender issues and the policy and legal framework for agricultural investment and supply chains. It provides concrete guidance on actions required to create a policy and legal framework that increases the likelihood of women and men benefiting equally from agricultural investment and supply chains.
Training & e-learning
Participatory frameworks and stakeholder strengthening for rural poverty reduction
2019
This course is the third in a series of e-learning courses on Rural Poverty Reduction. In it, you will develop an understanding of the actors and organizations involved in rural poverty reduction and how they interact. The importance of participatory framework, approaches and methods is highlighted, and the importance of a collaborative and inclusive way of working. Finally, the importance that capacities are developed in all individual actors and all rural organizations.