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Explore FAO’s free, self-paced e-Learning courses, tailored for professionals working to implement the SDGs on the ground and enhance their ability to champion the 2030 Agenda in their locality.

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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.

Emergency preparedness for aquatic disease outbreaks
31/12/2024

This course provides an overview of disease in aquatic organisms. In doing so, it highlights the importance of preparedness for effective prevention,...

One HealthSafe Food for Everyone
Right to food fundamentals
31/12/2024

The "Right to Food" e-learning series aims to broaden knowledge about the human right to adequate food – what it means, its legal foundations, the most...

Nutrition for the Most Vulnerable
Wetlands and agriculture: pathways to sustainability
23/12/2024

This two-lesson course emphasizes the importance of sustainable agricultural practices in wetland areas, offering guidance for policymakers to integrate...

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Food and Agriculture
Delivering restoration outcomes for biodiversity and human well-being
28/11/2024

This course is designed to support global efforts in achieving Target 2 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF). As a key element...

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Food and Agriculture
Aquatic food by-products valorization
24/10/2024

This course introduces bioeconomy with a focus on sustainable development using biological resources. It covers bio-based goods, the ‘4R approach’ (reduce,...

Reducing Food Loss and Waste
Parliamentary action for food systems and nutrition: An introduction
16/10/2024

This course is the first of two intended to provide parliamentarians, their advisors and relevant actors with a broad overview of nutrition and agrifood...

Healthy Diets for All
Advocacy for a multistakeholder, multisectoral approach to nutrition
10/10/2024

The course offers guidance on the development of an advocacy strategy for a multisectoral and multistakeholder approach to nutrition. In particular,...

Healthy Diets for All
Screening for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems
27/09/2024

This course focuses on the screening phase of the investment assessment process. It explains what screening and due diligence are and why they are such...

Scaling Up Investment
Raising awareness on the responsible use of antibiotics in livestock
05/09/2024

This course aims to raise awareness on the responsible use of antibiotics in livestock. It describes the consequences of uninformed and inappropriate...

One Health
Other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) in Marine Fisheries
14/06/2024

This course provides the background and context on other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) in marine fisheries.

Blue Transformation
Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing
07/06/2024

Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a threat to sustainable fisheries and the conservation of marine ecosystems. This series focuses...

Blue Transformation
An introduction to Urban and Peri-urban Forestry
23/05/2024

This course introduces the concepts of urban and peri-urban forestry. The course considers the important ecosystem services provided by urban forests,...

Achieving Sustainable Urban Food Systems
Strengthening deep-sea fisheries management in areas beyond national jurisdiction
16/05/2024

This e-learning course provides introductory level knowledge necessary to sustainably manage deep-sea fisheries (DSF) in areas beyond national jurisdiction...

Blue Transformation
Consumer organizations and the right to adequate food
09/05/2024

The course explains human rights concepts and provides tools for consumer organizations as key stakeholders, to support their communication, campaigns,...

Healthy Diets for AllNutrition for the Most Vulnerable
Developing and implementing National Plans of Action for small-scale fisheries
18/04/2024

The development of National Plans of Action for Small-scale Fisheries (NPOA-SSF) is intended to assist in the implementation of the SSF Guidelines....

Blue Transformation
Gender-responsive, disability- and socially-inclusive water resource management
01/04/2024

This course provides an understanding of key concepts, terminology, practical tools and processes for incorporating gender equality, disability and...

Gender Equality and Rural Women's Empowerment
Surveillance and reporting obligations
31/03/2024

The course series "Surveillance and reporting obligations" introduces key concepts related to pest surveillance and pest status determination, supporting...

Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture ProductionOne Health
Using land-cover information to monitor progress on Sustainable Development Goal 15
31/03/2024

This course seeks to provide a basic understanding of land-cover data and its use for monitoring progress towards the achievement of international agreed...

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Food and Agriculture
Salinity solutions for crop production
29/02/2024

The e-learning series "Salinity solutions for crop production" provides an overview of soil salinization and presents some strategies to mitigate and...

Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture Production
Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries
31/01/2024

The Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) series consists of six courses. The first four courses take you through the steps and activities of the EAF...

Blue Transformation
Gender equality in climate change and agrifood systems
01/01/2024

This e-learning series will facilitate the exchange of promising approaches, tools and good practices that can be used to support the design and implementation...

Climate Change Mitigating and Adapted Agrifood SystemsGender Equality and Rural Women's Empowerment