FAO African SIDS solutions and investment forum

03/03/2026 - 05/03/2026

Save the date!  FAO’s African SIDS Solutions and Investment Forum will take place in São Tomé and Príncipe from 3–5 March 2026, bringing together leaders, investors, innovators, and partners to unlock resilient and sustainable agrifood solutions for African SIDS.

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 

Inception Workshop for the Global OCOP Project in Samoa under the FAO-China South-South Cooperation Programme and Technical Training on the Implementation of OCOP Initiative for the Pacific Islands

18/11/2025 - 20/11/2025

The inception workshop for the Global Project in Samoa under the FAO-China South-South Cooperation Programme and Technical Training on the Implementatio...

2025 High-Level Ministerial Special Event “From Vulnerability to Resilience - Strengthening Food Security and Better Life in Small Island Developing States, Least Developed Countries and Landlocked Developing Countries”

29/06/2025

Pacific Week of Agriculture and Forestry 2025

26/05/2025 - 30/05/2025

Hosted by the Government of Tonga with support from FAO and the Pacific Community (SPC), the 

SIDS Solutions Dialogue - Enhancing timely access to quality data and statistics in SIDS

Hybrid Event, 01/04/2025

Enhancing timely access to quality data and statistics in SIDS

Tuesday, 1st April 2025 | 15:00 - 16:30 (CEST) / 9:00 - 10:30 (EST)

The Restoration Initiative in Sao Tome and Principe: Setting up carbon credit system with local farmers

Virtual Event, 21/11/2024

21 November 2024, 11:00am-12:00pm (CET)

FAO SIDS Solutions Dialogue - "Blue Transformation: Maximizing the contribution of Aquatic Food Systems to the 2030 Sustainable Agenda in SIDS"

Hybrid Event, 07/10/2024

SAVE THE DATE: 2024 Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Solutions Forum

Hybrid Event, 05/11/2024 - 08/11/2024

Dates: 5 to 8 November 2024.

Venue: Sheraton Hotel, Denarau, Nadi, Fiji.

Participation: Hybrid.

This high-level platform is to share innovative solutions aimed at transforming agrifood systems in the Pacific Islands region through better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life, leaving ...

FAO-CARICOM SIDE EVENT at the 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States Delivering concrete solutions for SIDS through the FAO Global Roadmap: Achieving SDG2 without breaching the 1.5 C threshold

27/05/2024

FAO presented the Global Roadmap: Achieving SDG2 without breaching the 1.5 C threshold- launched at the 28th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP 28) - at the margins of the first preparatory committee meeti...

SIDS Solutions Dialogue -  Agricultural Trade in SIDS: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

Hybrid Event, 09/04/2024

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Achieving SDG 2 without breaching the 1.5 °C threshold: A Global Roadmap

Hybrid Event, 24/01/2024

In 2022, 738.9 million people faced hunger, nearly 2.4 billion in 2022 lacked regular access to adequate food, and over 3.1 billion could not afford he...

High-Level Event on FAO African SIDS

Hybrid Event, 07/11/2023 - 08/11/2023

FAO developed a Programme dedicated to African SIDS. This Programme has been carrying out analyses through mapping and consultation work since December 2022 to identify current interventions and players working towards the resilience of agrifood systems, with the aim of determining future priority areas of action. A multi-disciplinary and multi-...

Can an agrifood systems approach help achieve healthy diets, reduce noncommunicable diseases, and improve climate resilience in SIDS?

Hybrid Event, 31/10/2023

Join us for a discussion on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Food security and nutrition are crucial to SDG2 - Zero Hunger, and are connected to other SDGs such as poverty eradication, health, responsible consumption, and sustainability. SIDS face challenges including structural and environmental vulnerabilities, unhealthy diets, and f...

Enabling research, science, and innovation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries and Small Island Developing States

Hybrid Event, 19/10/2023

This session shares experiences and insights on facilitating access to science, research, and innovation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries and Small Island Developing States to strengthen capabilities in climate change adaptation, mitigation, resilience and response. Speakers will discuss context-specific and evidence-based solutions for populations that are not sufficiently represented in gl...

Hand-in-Hand Investment Forum (IF) 2023

Hybrid Event, 17/10/2023 - 20/10/2023

The Investment Forum 2023, the crux of the Initiative's partnership-building effort, provides a platform for national authorities to present investment opportunities to investors, multilateral development banks, the private sector and donors, with a focus on investment potential on national agriculture and food value chain investment opportunities. 

Launch of the 2023 Report "The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security"

Hybrid Event, 13/10/2023

Join FAO for the launch of the flagship report "The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security: Avoiding and Reducing Losses through Investment in Resilience", which will be held on the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. 

Ministerial event: Transforming agrifood systems in SIDS, LDCs & LLDCs

(Italy), 29/06/2023

FAO is convening a high-level event focused on unlocking the potential of SIDS, LDCs and LLDCs through agrifood systems transformation. The event will provide an opportunity to identify coordinated actions to support SIDS, LDCs and LLDCs to transform their agrifood systems in the framework of the 2030 Agenda.

Agrifood accelerator 2022

Hybrid Event, 14/11/2022 - 29/11/2022

This programme is for businesses, startups, and local innovators from Small Island Developing States (SIDS) who are looking to improve and scale up their innovative agrifood solutions in the agrifood industry that helps either of the following key areas: Better production, Better environment, Better life.

SIDS Solutions Forum

Hybrid Event, 30/08/2021 - 31/08/2021

The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Solutions Forum will enhance information exchange to facilitate development. It will gather Heads of Governments, UN agencies, and representatives from a wide spectrum of farmers organizations, NGOs, civil society and innovators  to incubate, promote and scale-up home-grown and imported solutions to accelerate the achievement of the agric...