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FAO and the Sustainable Development Goals

Achieving the 2030 Agenda through empowerment of local communities

 

FAO and the 2030 Agenda follow-up and review: Guidance note for Regional and Country Offices

This guidance note details the VNR process and elaborates on the importance of leveraging agrifood systems transformations as a key accelerator for the SDGs.

FAO SDG Action: Marking the mid-way point of the 2030 Agenda

A visual representation of FAO’s contribution to SDG achievement at the mid-way point of the 2030 Agenda

FAO at the Asia-Pacific Forum for Sustainable Development 2025

FAO is actively engaged in the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development 2025, an annual intergovernmental forum that supports the regional follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its SDGs.

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The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2024 – Trade and nutrition: policy coherence for healthy diets
2024

The 2024 edition of The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets (SOCO 2024) explores complex linkages between food trade and nutrition and generates evidence to identify how trade affects dietary patterns and nutritional outcomes.

Greenhouse gas emissions from agrifood systems –Global, regional and country trends, 2000–2022
2024

Agrifood systems account for about one-third of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. According to the latest data, global agrifood systems emissions reached 16.2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (Gt CO2eq) in 2022, virtually unchanged from 2021, and representing an increase of 10 percent since 2000.

Climate Change Mitigating and Adapted Agrifood Systems
Towards a new generation of climate-efficient agrifood systems infrastructure – Conceptual framework and analytical review
2024

This report defines agrifood systems infrastructure by providing a strategic review of its ecosystem, as well as an associated conceptual framework, and key economic, environmental, and social performance indicators to assist the decision-making process for private and public investments.

Scaling Up Investment
The State of Food and Agriculture 2024. Value-driven transformation of agrifood systems
2024

As The State of Food and Agriculture 2023 revealed, agrifood systems activities generate significant benefits for society, but also have negative impacts on economic, social and environmental sustainability. The State of Food and Agriculture 2024 builds on these finding, delving deeper into the use of true cost accounting assessments of agrifood systems and identifying policy interventions aimed at transformation.

Food Outlook – Biannual report on global food markets
2024

FAO’s latest assessments indicate differing trajectories across different commodities, with wheat, maize, and sugar production set to decline, while outputs of dairy, fisheries, meats, oilseeds, and rice are expected to increase, with implications for utilization, trade, and stock levels. However, global food production remains susceptible to shocks arising from weather conditions, geopolitical tensions, and policies.

Transparent Markets and Trade
What are healthy diets? Joint statement by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization
2024

In this document the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have formulated principles of what constitute healthy diets, underpinned by guidelines and other normative elements developed by the two Organizations. The principles provide the basis for the design of policies aimed at improving diet and for the assessment of the healthiness of diets.

The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2024–Blue Transformation in action
2024

The 2024 edition of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture features the Blue Transformation in action, illustrated by activities and initiatives, led by FAO in collaboration with Members, partners and key stakeholders, to integrate aquatic foods into global food security and sustainability, enhance policy advocacy, scientific research and capacity building, disseminate sustainable practices and technological innovations, and support community involvement.

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 – Financing to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms
2024

This report provides a long-awaited definition of financing for food security and nutrition and guidance for its implementation. There are recommendations regarding the efficient use of innovative financing tools and reforms to the food security and nutrition financing architecture.

The State of the World’s Forests 2024 – Forest-sector innovations towards a more sustainable future
2024

This edition of The State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) provides highlights on the state of the world’s forests and explores the transformative power of evidence-based innovation in the forest sector, ranging from new technologies to creative and successful policies and institutional changes, to new ways of getting finance to forest owners and managers.

Step-by-step guide to integrating a gender transformative approach throughout the project cycle
2024

This guide provides assistance to development professionals to integrate the gender transformative approach (GTA) in project interventions that focus on food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture, in view of advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Gender Equality and Rural Women's Empowerment
The unjust climate: Measuring the impacts of climate change on rural poor, women and youth
2024

This report assembles an impressive set of data from 24 low- and middle-income countries in five world regions to measure the effects of climate change on rural women, youths and people living in poverty. It analyses socioeconomic data collected from 109 341 rural households (representing over 950 million rural people) in these 24 countries. These data are combined in both space and time with 70 years of georeferenced data on daily precipitation and temperatures.

Global science–policy interfaces related to agrifood systems: a desktop review of structures and common patterns
2024

This background paper to the guidance that FAO is developing on strengthening science–policy interfaces (SPIs) for agrifood systems at the national level sets provides information about the structures and patterns common to global SPIs.

Water stress plugin for Water Evaluation and Planning system (WEAP): Using the water evaluation and planning tool for the calculation of Sustainable Development Goal indicator 6.4.2
2024

This report presents the instruction manual of the new water stress plugin developed by FAO in collaboration with the Stockholm Environment Institute's U.S. Center (SEI) for the calculation of the SDG indicator 6.4.2 “Level of water stress: freshwater withdrawal as a proportion of available freshwater resources” by river basin.

Tackling antimicrobial resistance in food and agriculture
2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) leads the global response to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the food and agriculture sectors. Its work in response to the many challenges of AMR is currently guided by the FAO Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance 2021–2025. This first report on FAO’s contribution to the global response to AMR outlines a wide range of activities undertaken by FAO at global, regional and country level.

Urban forests: a global perspective
2023

Urban forestry is not a one-size-fits-all solution; each city and region, with its own unique set of challenges and opportunities, requires tailored strategies. In recognition of the diversity and distinctiveness of urban forestry issues and their potential for mitigating environmental and socioeconomic inequality across the globe, FAO has asked experts around the world to share their views on how urban forests and trees are perceived and managed in their respective geographical areas,...

Monitoring the sustainability of the bioeconomy – Pilot in Uruguay
2023

This publication focuses on how to monitor the sustainability of the bioeconomy and describes how to develop two monitoring systems; qualitative biomass flows of major agricultural commodities and their sustainability and circularity, and analysis of bio-based sectors within the wider economy.

Harvesting change: Harnessing emerging technologies and innovations for agrifood system transformation
2023

The study assesses a selection of technologies and innovations, which potentially could be of paramount importance in addressing agrifood challenges until 2050, as well as the most important trends and drivers that will influence the emergence of agrifood technologies and innovations and their triggers of change, including some regional aspects. The goal is also to build plausible future scenarios for the evolvement of the emerging technologies and innovations in the future with the time...

Climate-related development finance to agrifood systems: Global and regional trends between 2000 and 2021
2023

This publication addresses the persistent knowledge gap related to climate finance to agrifood systems, providing data and information to support countries making informed decisions towards agrifood systems transformation. The analysis brings to light the evolution of climate finance in agrifood systems over the past two decades, showcasing unique sectorial analysis of climate finance allocations for adaptation and mitigation, delving into the diversity of actors involved...

Achieving SDG2 without breaching the 1.5C threshold: A Global Roadmap
2023

The Global Roadmap offers a multi-year process with the view that agrifood systems could and should address food security and nutrition needs and facilitate a large number of actions aligned with mitigation, adaptation and resilience objectives under the larger umbrella of climate action.

FAO and the 2030 Agenda Follow-up and Review: Guidance Note for Regional and Country Offices
2023

The Guidance Note describes the process of the preparation of the VNRs and what FAO Regional and Country Offices need to be aware and mindful of when providing support to the national partners. It covers information about the importance of the follow-up and review process for the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs, including information about the gaps in the coverage of the Voluntary National Reviews, and recommendations on strengthening VNRs to be meaningful instruments for the acceleration of the SDGs.