The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) joined colleagues from the World Bank and the African Network of Agriculture Policy Research (ANAPRI) network to discuss how sustainable agricultural practices can support Africa’s job agenda and food systems transformation. 

FAO will join colleagues from the World Bank at the 12th ANAPRI Stakeholders Conference, taking place from 4–6 November 2025 in Kigali, Rwanda. The interactive seminar will explore how sustainable agricultural practices can support Africa’s food systems transformation and contribute to job creation across the continent. 

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) convened a high-level event at FAO Headquarters on Leveraging data-driven evidence-base and frameworks to build more resilient food systems.

FAO participated in the 10th annual conference on development economics, organized by the Società Italiana di Economia dello Sviluppo (SITES) and the Fondazione Tor Vergata of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. The event took place at Villa Mondragone, Monteporzio Catone, Rome, on 15–16 September 2025. 

FAO is supporting the baseline data collection to evaluate the impact of the Women’s Empowerment Farmer Business School (WE-FBS), a gender-transformative initiative aimed at strengthening the role of rural women in agribusiness and household decision-making. 

FAO presented its latest paper, “Evaluating Well-being Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Spatial Perspective Across Territorial Typologies”, at the Geo4Impact 2025 conference hosted by Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in Paris.

FAO is supporting the baseline data collection for the impact evaluation of the Ouémé Climate Resilience Initiative (OCRI) to provide high-quality information that will guide climate-resilient agriculture and strengthen smallholder resilience. 

Partners working for gender equality in agriculture met in Nairobi, Kenya, for a kick-off workshop organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to launch a new project to empower women and improve livelihoods in rural communities. 

FAO is supporting data collection for the impact evaluation of a cash plus pilot implemented by FAO Mozambique. The pilot provided support through cash transfers, agricultural inputs, and technical training to households.

In the run-up to the UNFCCC COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, this event aims to raise awareness of the importance of climate finance for agrifood systems transformation, stressing that enhancing resilience within agrifood systems can ensure their adaptation to the challenges posed by climate change and help enhance food security. 

To promote investments and foster greater coordination across the environment, agriculture, gender, and health sectors to deliver on gender, climate change and nutrition goals. 

FAO conducted a mission from 2 to 12 October to complete data collection for an impact evaluation in Isiolo County, Kenya. The study aims to find out if combining social protection measures with agricultural training can improve livelihoods and food security in pastoral and agro-pastoral communities. 

FAO organized a national-level event on FAO’s report "The Unjust Climate: Measuring the impacts of climate change on rural poor, women, and youth" – a focus on India, on Wednesday, 16 October 2023, at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

The Expert Talk on Inclusive Climate Action, organized by the Agri-Business Facility for Africa (ABF), an initiative implemented by the GIZ projects ABF and MOVE/ComCashew, was the fourth in a series of discussions aimed at addressing climate challenges in agricultural value chains across Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. The event brought together experts to discuss the critical role of women and youth in rural areas in leading climate-smart agribusiness initiatives.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) conducted a mission from August 25 to September 6 to initiate endline data collection for an impact evaluation in Zambia. The study aims to assess whether the input transfers provided through the Food Security Pack (FSP) are sufficient to improve farmers' livelihoods, or if combining them with additional extension support leads to better outcomes.

In July, FAO supported the endline data collection for the impact evaluation of the Refugee Agricultural Value Chains for Economic Self-reliance (RAVES) project, funded by the IKEA Foundation in Uganda and Kenya. 

Watch the IFPRI Policy Seminar on "The Unjust Climate: Measuring the Impacts of Climate Change on the Rural Poor, Women, and Youth," where speakers discussed key results from the report and hear from policymakers, practitioners, and partners on how they are working to generate relevant evidence and make a difference on the ground.

At the conference "feminist economics responses and imaginations for the future", which took place from 3 to 5 July 2024 at Sapienza University in Rome, FAO presented the article entitled "do "cash-plus" transfer programmes have an effect on women's economic empowerment? Evidence from combined social protection and rural development interventions in Lesotho".

The regional workshop "Strengthening social protection systems in the Caribbean to adapt to climate change: Opportunities and challenges" underscores the critical role of social protection in enhancing resilience against climate change impacts and natural disasters

Behind the Scenes of the "Unjust Climate" Report: A Review of the Data and Tools Used to Measure the Impacts of Climate Change on the Rural Poor, Women, and Youth