Results
Briefs
2020
National agrifood systems and COVID-19 in Pakistan. Effects, policy responses, and long-term implications
This report describes: (i) policy measures enacted by the Government of Pakistan to contain the spread of the virus; (ii) policies and measures to stabilize the functioning of agri-food systems; (iii) potential effects of policies on agri-food systems and vulnerable groups. Finally, the profile also assesses longer-term options for agri-food system policies and investments in Pakistan so as to make them more resilient.
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Briefs
2020
National agrifood systems and COVID-19 in Palestine. Effects, policy responses, and long-term implications
This report describes: (i) policy measures enacted by the Government to contain the spread of the virus; (ii) policies and measures to stabilize the functioning of agri-food systems; (iii) potential effects of policies on agri-food systems and vulnerable groups. Finally, the profile also assesses longer-term options for agri-food system policies and investments so as to make them more resilient.
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Briefs
2020
Sistemas agroalimentarios nacionales y COVID-19 en Guatemala. Efectos, respuestas, políticas e implicaciones a largo plazo
Este informe describe: (i) las medidas y políticas adoptadas por el Gobiernopara contener la expansión del virus; (ii) las medidas y políticas para estabilizar y garantizar el funcionamiento de los sistema agroalimentarios; (iii) los posibles efectos de dichas políticas sobre los sistemas agroalimentarios y los grupos más vulnerables. Finalmente, los perfiles también evalúan las opciones y posibilidades que ofrecen las inversiones y las políticas agroalimentarias a largo plazo en Guatemala para dar lugar a sistemas más resilientes.
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Issue paper
2020
FAO Strategy on Mainstreaming Biodiversity across Agricultural Sectors
The FAO strategy on mainstreaming biodiversity was approved at the FAO Conference in 2019, in view of preparations for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
The Strategy aims to mainstream biodiversity across agricultural sectors at national, regional and international levels in a structured and coherent manner, taking into account national priorities, needs, regulations and policies and country programming frameworks.
The expected result of the application of the Strategy would be to reduce the negative impacts of agricultural practices on biodiversity, to promote sustainable agricultural practices and to conserve, enhance, preserve and restore biodiversity as a whole.
Full meeting document FAO Conference Sessions 163 (CL [...]
Issue paper
2020
Social assistance and productive support policies implementation in rural areas. Are social protection policies designed to reach the rural poor?
Many studies have provided global and regional overviews of the state of social protection policies and their importance to poverty reduction, food security and nutrition. However, little is known about how such policies are designed and implemented in rural areas, or how they complement and link to agricultural support programmes, which may cover the same geographical areas and reach similar types of beneficiaries. Both social protection and agricultural policies are needed for poverty reduction in poor rural populations.
Yet coordination between the two sectors is generally limited and, until recently, little attention has been paid to their complementarities and how these [...]
Forums and community of practice
2020
The African Continental Trade Area Agreement and agricultural development: challenges and prospects. FSN Forum in Africa report of activity No. 15
This document summarizes the online discussion The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement and agricultural development: challenges and prospects held on the FAO Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition in Africa (FSN Forum Africa) from 5 May to 2 June 2020. The discussion was facilitated by Jean Senahoun from FAO’s Regional Office for Africa in Accra, Ghana.
This online discussion aimed to exchange ideas on the challenges to and prospects for the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement in Africa’s agricultural sector and its implications for food security and nutrition. Participants shared ideas on the Trade [...]
Briefs
2020
National agrifood systems and COVID-19 in ECOWAS. Effects, policy responses, and long-term implications
This report describes: (i) policy measures enacted by the governments of the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS) Member States to contain the spread of the virus; (ii) policies and measures to stabilize the functioning of agri-food systems; (iii) potential effects of policies on agri-food systems and vulnerable groups. Finally, the profile also assesses longer-term options for agri-food system policies and investments in ECOWAS so as to make them more resilient.
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Briefs
2020
National agrifood systems and COVID-19 in Solomon Islands - Effects, policy responses, and long-term implications
This report describes: (i) policy measures enacted by the Government of Solomon Islands to contain the spread of the virus; (ii) policies and measures to stabilize the functioning of agri-food systems; (iii) potential effects of policies on agri-food systems and vulnerable groups. Finally, the profile also assesses longer-term options for agri-food system policies and investments in Solomon Islands so as to make them more resilient.
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Issue paper
2020
Accelerating progress towards SDG2 in Pakistan – Policy effectiveness analysis
The Food and Nutrition Security Impact, Resilience, Sustainability and Transformation (FIRST) Programme represents a partnership between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the European Union (EU). In 2018, the partnership agreed on the need to have a policy effectiveness analysis conducted in most of the FIRST countries.
As policy implementation rather than formulation is repeatedly raised as one of Pakistan’s challenges, this assessment considered the implementation challenges of specific policy processes relevant to the FAO-EU partnership in the country, rather than the entire suite of relevant policies. It considered the necessary conditions to move forward and [...]
Issue paper
2020
El estado del campo natural en el Uruguay.
La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO), a través de Global Environment Facility (GEF) junto a la Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (UICN), desarrolló un proyecto global centrado en la Degradación y en el Manejo Sostenible de Tierras en las zonas de pastoreo compuestos por praderas y pastizales (Proyecto GCP/GLO/530/GFF). El Proyecto global tenía por objetivo fortalecer la capacidad de los actores locales y nacionales en las zonas de pastoreo compuestas por pastizales para evaluar la Degradación de Tierras (DT), tomar decisiones informadas hacia la promoción del Manejo Sostenible de Tierras [...]
