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SIDS Solutions Platform

Digitalization and innovation - an important way forward for SIDS on the road to 2030

Digital technologies are transforming agri-food systems. While this is an important development everywhere, it is of great importance to remote areas such as SIDS. The SIDS Solutions platform will help to incubate, promote, scale up and replicate locally grown ideas to accelerate the achievement of agriculture, food, nutrition, environment and health. 

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Events

3/3

2026

6/3

2026

FAO African SIDS solution and investment forum
03/03/2026 - 06/03/2026

Save the date!  FAO’s African SIDS Solutions and Investment Forum will take place in São Tomé and Príncipe from 3–6 March 2026, bringing together leaders, investors, innovators, and partners to unlock resilient and sustainable agrifood solutions for African SIDS.

12/12

2025

2025 Global Multi-Stakeholder SIDS Partnership Dialogue
Hybrid Event, 12/12/2025

The 2025 Global Multi-Stakeholder SIDS Partnership Dialogue – From Vision to Reality: Advancing the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda through Partnerships is taking place on Friday, 12 December 2025, at the Trusteeship Council Chamber, United Nations Headquarters, New York, and online via Zoom  and 

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Locally-grown SIDS Solutions
SISSTEM - ARUBA
09/08/2021

To solve pressing challenges for Small Island States, the University of Aruba, located in the Caribbean, aims to nurture the next generation of innovators,...

Samoa Women’s Association of Growers (SWAG) - Samoa
07/08/2021

The Samoa Women’s Association of Growers (SWAG) is a grassroots organization helping Samoan women growers and farmers to network, learn, and socialize...

My Kana - Fiji
07/08/2021

Designed and developed in Fiji, My Kana is a mobile app that promotes healthy living by calculating the nutritional make-up of food eaten and recorded...

Long Distance Vanilla – Samoa
02/08/2021

Passionate organic vanilla producer, Shelly Burich from Samoa shows how online technology helped her business recover from the impacts of COVID-19.

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