Publications
Good packaging practices for micro, small and medium-sized food processing enterprises in the Caribbean Community and Common Market
06/2024
Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) continue to serve as a major source of employment and income generation in the agriculture and tourism sectors in countries of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM). Most MSMEs are small businesses run by families or by a few individuals. While this helps to keep labour and overhead costs to a minimum, it creates a suboptimum economy of scale.
Value chains of mackerel scad and tuna-like species caught by the semi-industrial fishing fleet of Cabo Verde
05/2024
This report was developed under the Korean-funded “Sustainable Fish Value Chains for Small Island Developing States” project. The project aims to contribute to economic growth, job creation, and food and nutrition security. This publication summarizes a much more detailed report focusing on the semi-industrial value chains of mackerel scad and tuna-like species in Cabo Verde.
Climate-related development finance to agrifood systems
02/2024
The amount of climate finance flowing to agrifood systems is strikingly low and continues to diminish vis-à-vis global climate finance flows. Agriculture is one of the sectors with the highest adaptation finance needs for implementing the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) but climate finance for adaptation is also on a downward trend. The diminishing trends of both agrifood and adaptation investments is a cause for alarm and a missed opportunity.
Loss and damage and agrifood systems
12/2023
Agrifood systems are intrinsically linked to climate change and are particularly vulnerable to its impacts. Each year hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of crops and livestock production is lost due to disaster events, undermining hard-won development gains and livelihoods for farmers.
Avoiding and reducing losses through investment in resilience
10/2023
Disasters are resulting in unprecedented levels of destruction across the world. These shocks and disruptions affect the functioning and sustainability of agricultural production and threaten the livelihoods of millions of people reliant on agrifood systems.
Hand-in-Hand Investment Plan 2023 - Haiti
10/2023
Haiti's participation in this year's Investment Forum reaffirms its commitment in transforming the national agricultural landscape through investment opportunities for resilience and long-term development, with a specific focus on the South-East region. By targeting five selected communes, Haiti aims to drive transformative changes in agri-food systems and enhance agricultural productivity.
Hand-in-Hand Investment Plan 2023 - Vanuatu
10/2023
Vanuatu's long-term planning framework, Vanuatu 2030 – the People's Plan, places agriculture and industry at the core of its development journey. The vision aims to increase sustainable agricultural and fisheries food production to ensure affordable and nutritious food access. These government priorities align closely with the principles of the Hand-in-Hand Initiative (HiH), which seeks to eradicate poverty, end hunger and malnutrition, and reduce inequalities through a market-based approach.
FAO in the Pacific 2021 - Annual report of FAO Subregional Office for the Pacific Islands
05/2022
FAO in the Pacific: 2021 Annual Report' presents the results that FAO-led projects and programmes contributed to the timely and effective joint response by the United Nations family, governments and other partners under various thematic clusters.