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The Biodiversity Integrated Assessment and Computation Tool (B-INTACT)
25/07/2021

The Biodiversity Integrated Assessment and Computation Tool (B-INTACT) uniquely seeks to provide a thorough biodiversity assessment of project-level...

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Food and Agriculture
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Making climate-sensitive investments in agriculture
14/05/2021

This comprehensive knowledge product provides investment practitioners with practical reference material on integrating climate risk considerations...

Climate Change Mitigating and Adapted Agrifood SystemsScaling Up Investment
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Rapid capacity assessment tool - Strengthening capacities to enhance responsible investment in agriculture and food systems
11/05/2021

This rapid capacity assessment tool aims to help practitioners carry out a multi-stakeholder assessment of existing and needed capacities to enhance...

Inclusive Rural TransformationScaling Up Investment
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Guide on incentives for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems
11/05/2021

This Guide provides policymakers and government technical staff with guidance on how investment incentives can be used (and how they should not be used)...

Scaling Up Investment
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Recarbonizing global soils - A technical manual of recommended management practices
31/01/2021

This technical manual gathers the existing data on the impacts of soil management practices on soil organic carbon (SOC) content in a wide array of...

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Food and AgricultureInnovation for Sustainable Agriculture Production
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Stepping up – Everyone around the table for better nutrition and healthy diets
01/01/2021

This is a series of papers intended to highlight current understandings, gaps and misconceptions about engaging with businesses in the food system.

Healthy Diets for AllInclusive Rural Transformation
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Capacity needs assessment tool: School-based food and nutrition education
01/01/2021

The capacity needs assessment tool is meant to be used by national and local groups as a foundation for the design of school-based food and nutrition...

Better NutritionNutrition for the Most Vulnerable
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Enabling sustainable food systems. Innovators’ handbook
31/12/2020

This handbook is written for “sustainable food systems innovators” by a group of innovators from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe who are leading...

Achieving Sustainable Urban Food SystemsHealthy Diets for AllResilient Agrifood Systems
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Toolkit for value chain analysis and market development integrating climate resilience and gender responsiveness. Integrating agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-Ag) Programme
01/09/2020

This toolkit aims to help countries in selecting and analysing value chains for opportunities to improve climate change resilience and reduce gender...

Climate Change Mitigating and Adapted Agrifood SystemsGender Equality and Rural Women's Empowerment
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Methodology for Quantification of GHG Emission Reductions from Improved Management in Smallholder Dairy Production Systems using a Standardized Baseline
31/12/2018

This methodology presents requirements for development and assessment of a standardized baseline for quantification of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission...

Climate Change Mitigating and Adapted Agrifood Systems
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A Toolkit on gender-sensitive social protection programmes to combat rural poverty and hunger
01/12/2018

FAO has developed the Technical Guidance Toolkit on Gender-sensitive Social Protection Programmes to Combat Rural Poverty and Hunger. The Toolkit is...

Gender Equality and Rural Women's Empowerment
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Empowering youth to engage in responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Rapid capacity assessment tool
01/12/2018

This rapid capacity assessment tool aims to help practitioners (such as government agencies, youth organizations, or development partners) to carry...

Inclusive Rural TransformationScaling Up Investment
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FAO Guidance Note: Child labour in agriculture in protracted crises, fragile and humanitarian contexts
31/12/2017

This note provides technical and operational guidance to stakeholders of the agriculture, food security and nutrition sector intervening in protracted...

Agriculture and Food Emergencies
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FAO/WHO Diagnostic tool for assessing status of national Codex programmes
31/12/2017

The purpose of this Codex Diagnostic Tool is to provide a framework for countries to carry out a self-assessment of the current status of the national...

Safe Food for Everyone
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Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM)
01/12/2017

GLEAM is a modelling framework that simulates the interaction of activities and processes involved in livestock production and the environment. The...

Climate Change Mitigating and Adapted Agrifood Systems
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Investing in Sustainable Energy Technologies in the Agrifood Sector (INVESTA) methodology
01/12/2017

The “Investing in Sustainable Energy Technologies in the Agrifood Sector” (INVESTA) methodology provides guidelines for a sound and comprehensive cost-benefit...

Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture Production