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e-Learning series: The 2030 Agenda Follow-Up and Review

This course series is designed to equip learners with the essential knowledge and skills needed to support preparations of the Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) for the High-level Political Forum (HLPF).  

The series covers several core areas, starting with enhancing the ability to conduct evidence-based reviews of SDG progress, and utilizing data analysis and insights to inform future policies and actions. It also delves into integrated assessments and highlights the critical role of VNRs in this process. Emphasis is placed on the importance of partnerships and stakeholder engagement to ensure inclusive and participatory approaches in VNR preparations. 

Additionally, the series aims to empower participants to advocate for agrifood system transformations as a powerful catalyst for accelerating the implementation of the SDGs.

A guide to developing a resilient watershed management plan
01/12/2020

This course presents the basic principles and concepts related to resilient watershed management, and, through the description of a case study, practically...

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Food and Agriculture
Tenure security for better forestry: Applying the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure
01/12/2020

Governments and development actors increasingly recognize that strengthening tenure can create powerful incentives for the sustainable use of forest...

Small-Scale Producers' Equitable Access to Resources
Fisheries and aquaculture response to emergencies (FARE)
01/12/2020

Fisheries and aquaculture responses to emergencies (FARE) are often mistargeted or may undermine the stability of the sector. An understanding of how...

Agriculture and Food Emergencies
Responsible investment in agriculture and food systems
01/12/2020

This e-learning series includes all courses that aim to promote application of the Principles for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems....

Scaling Up Investment
Monitoring and preventing ciguatera poisoning
01/12/2020

Ciguatera poisoning is one of the most common foodborne illnesses related to consumption of fishery products, caused by ingesting seafood that have...

Safe Food for Everyone
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
01/11/2020

The 'National Greenhouse Gas Inventories' curriculum aims to strengthen institutional and technical capacities in national entities, to enable them...

Climate Change Mitigating and Adapted Agrifood Systems
SDG Sub-indicator 12.3.1.a – Food Loss Index
01/09/2020

Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 is defined as the goal that “by 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce...

Reducing Food Loss and Waste
Design and monitor nutrition-sensitive agriculture and food systems programmes
01/09/2020

This is the fourth of a series of e-learning courses on Nutrition and Food Systems, which will guide you through the steps required to design of a nutrition-sensitive...

Healthy Diets for AllNutrition for the Most Vulnerable
Introduction to FAO’s damage and loss assessment methodology
01/09/2020

In recent decades, the occurrence of climate- and weather-related disasters has increased, and globally, a vast number of agricultural livelihoods are...

Reducing Food Loss and Waste
Climate change adaptation and mitigation in fisheries and aquaculture
01/06/2020

This course provides an overview of adaptation and mitigation strategies that can be implemented in response to climate change impacts on the fisheries...

Climate Change Mitigating and Adapted Agrifood Systems
Developing gender-sensitive value chains
01/05/2020

The development of sustainable food systems is a key component of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This course discussed why eliminating...

Gender Equality and Rural Women's Empowerment
Sustainable Food Value Chains for Nutrition
01/04/2020

This course aims to equip project designers and managers with the concepts, principles and tools they need to leverage value chain approaches to improve...

Healthy Diets for All
The Fisheries Performance Assessment Toolkit
01/02/2020

This course introduces the fisheries performance assessment toolkit, that will allow fisheries officers and managers to assess and monitor the environmental,...

Blue Transformation
Home-grown school feeding
01/02/2020

Governments and development actors are increasingly recognizing the importance and value that school meals constitute globally. The benefits of Home-grown...

Nutrition for the Most Vulnerable
National socioeconomic surveys in forestry
01/02/2020

The e-learning series on the ‘National socioeconomic surveys in forestry’ comprises four courses that aim to provide guidance on the use of forestry...

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Food and Agriculture
End Child Labour in Agriculture
01/12/2019

The prevalence of child labour in agriculture undermines decent work, sustainable agriculture and food security. The FAO-ILO e-learning course series...

Inclusive Rural Transformation
SDG Indicator 2.4.1 - Sustainable Agriculture
01/12/2019

This course has been developed to support countries in the analysis and reporting for Indicator 2.4.1 of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (Proportion...

Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture Production
SDG Indicator 14.4.1 - Fish stocks sustainability
01/11/2019

This course focuses on SDG Indicator 14.4.1 - Fish stocks sustainability: “Proportion of fish stocks within biologically sustainable levels”. It introduces...

Blue Transformation
Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) - An indigenous peoples’ right and a good practice for local communities
01/10/2019

This course focuses on how to practically operationalize the indigenous peoples’ right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) throughout all stages...

Inclusive Rural Transformation
SDG Indicators 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 - Labour productivity and income of small-scale food producers
01/09/2019

This course has been developed to support countries in computing and monitoring Indicators 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals...

Small-Scale Producers' Equitable Access to Resources
SDG Indicator 6.4.1 - Change in water-use efficiency over time
01/08/2019

The course provides guidance on the rationale and the main characteristics of Indicator 6.4.1, and on how to compute the two dimensions constituting...

Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture Production