First SIDS Solutions Platform Forum
30/08/2021 - 31/08/2021
The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Solutions Forum will enhance information exchange to facilitate development.
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 agriculture, food and nutrition related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in SIDS.
To support the ongoing flow of innovative solutions, a SIDS Solutions Platform (link coming soon!) will be launched in the Pacific in 2021, and will gradually expand to all other SIDS in the Africa, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and South China Sea (AIMS); and the Caribbean regions.
The overall theme of the first SIDS Solutions Forum planned for August 2021 is centered on COVID impacts on the economy and how digitalization and innovation can be fostered and further supported to enable broader deployment to support faster progress towards more resilient food systems, improved nutrition and health; and enhanced climate adaptation. The Forum will explore digitalization and innovation in a policy and practitioner owned space to identify how digitalization and innovation are, and can catalyze the pace of achieving agriculture, food, nutrition, environment and health related SDGs in SIDS.