On 8 November 2024, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the 

Sao Tome – Government representatives, fishery stakeholders and experts today endorsed Sao Tome and Principe’s first fisheries management plan, a milestone paving the way for more sustainable utilization of the African island nations’ rich fishery resources. 

Nadi, Fiji - Pacific Islands cou...

Nadi, Fiji - On occasion of the 2024 Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Solutions Forum, the FAO Director-General met with The Honourable Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka, Prime Minister of Fiji and Minister fo...

The FAO Liaison Office in Geneva (LOG), in collaboration with the Office of SIDS, LDCs, and LLDCs (OSL), the liaison offices in Brussels and New York as well as the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, organized the seventh session of the SIDS Solutions Dialogue. The focus of the dialogue was on Blue Transformation: maximizing the contribution of aquatic food systems to the 2030 Sustainable Agenda in SIDS

The fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) will be held from 27 to 30 May 2024 in St John’s, Antigua and Barbuda.

Under the overarching theme of “Charting the course toward resilient prosperity", the Conference will aim at assessing the ability of SIDS to achieve sustainable development, including the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals. It will result in an intergovernmentally agreed, focused, forward-looking and action-oriented political outcome document.

Brussels, Geneva, New York and Rome, 9 April 2024 –  The sixth edition of the FAO SIDS Solutions Dialogue focused on agricultural trade trends, challenges, and opportunities specific to Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The hybrid event held in Geneva explored the role of trade in transforming agrifood systems and its contribution to achieving food security and sustainable development. 

26 January, New York – With Small Island Developing States (SIDS) centre-stage this week at the United Nations headquarters, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) invited Member States, UN System and partners to explore how the new FAO Global Roadmap to achieve SD...

Climate change has brought with it greater climatic variation, changes in precipitation patterns and an increase in the incidence and power of natural disasters around the world. The Caribbean region is especially vulnerable to these threats, due to its geographic location and status as small island developing states (SIDS). Atmospheric phenomena intensified by climate change are major threats to the development of crops and agricultural systems in general, and put the food and nutritional security of the countries at risk.

High-Level Ministerial Event hosted by FAO promotes the sharing of experiences and ways forward through innovation and broader cooperation