The Chief Scientist is the driver to leverage and mainstream STI at FAO by delivering strategic directions, enhancing dialogues and forging transformative partnerships.
The Chief Scientist enables the Organization to strengthen its position as a source of reliable scientific information and a neutral platform at the heart of important debates.
The Chief Scientist also strengthens FAO’s capacities to support countries in identifying, piloting, and scaling up technologies and innovations which are adapted to their needs and contexts.
FAO developed its first-ever Science and Innovation Strategy in 2022. It is a tool to support the delivery of the FAO Strategic Framework 2022–31 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Action Plan 2022-2025 for the implementation of the Science and Innovation Strategy provides a common framework for FAO action at the country, sub-regional, regional and global levels.
Highlights
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联合国粮农组织科学与创新战略实施行动计划（2026–2029年）
01/2026
《粮农组织科学与创新战略实施行动计划（2026–2029年）》为实施《粮农组织科学与创新战略》提供指引。作为一个共同框架，《行动计划》指引粮农组织在国家、次区域、区域和全球层面采取行动。《行动计划（2026–2029年）》是对《行动计划（2022–2025年）》的更新。《战略》及《行动计划》为统筹与精简粮农组织科学与创新工作提供连贯、坚实、实用的框架。《行动计划》依托《战略》三大支柱、九项成果和两项助推因素构建框架。各项要素基于《战略》七项指导原则，这些原则相互联系，共同指引本组织开展各项科学与创新工作。
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Agrifood Systems Technologies and Innovations Outlook (ATIO) Use cases analysis for the ATIO Knowledge Base: personas, content needs and search journeys
12/2025
The ATIO Knowledge Base (KB) was co-designed through a participatory consultation process to ensure it meets the diverse needs of its users. The use...
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The State of Food and Agriculture 2025- Addressing land degradation across landholding scales
11/2025
The 2025 edition of The State of Food and Agriculture explores the theme “Addressing land degradation across landholding scales”. It examines the implications...
Success of Agricultural Mechanisation Depends on Systems, Science, and Equity
Interview with FAO Chief Scientist
The Chief Scientist and STI
The FAO Strategic Framework 2022-31 puts at its centre the vision of Leaving No One Behind through MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life for all.
The Chief Scientist makes a key contribution to this vision through harnessing STI to provide solutions that address all the dimensions of sustainability to promote a world free from poverty, hunger and malnutrition, in accordance with the 2030 Agenda.
Technology and innovation being two of the four accelerators in FAO Strategic Framework, together with data and complements (governance, human capital, and institutions), facilitate the role of the Chief Scientist to contribute to that vision.
The Chief Scientist supports assessment of the needs of small-scale producers in technologies and innovations and evaluates their impacts, including the potential benefits, risks, trade-offs and unintended consequences, as well as the barriers to adoption and diffusion, to ensure that the Programme Priority Areas can better leverage the two accelerators.
