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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetCanada and FAO
Partnering to build resilience and women’s empowerment for food and nutrition security
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Since the foundation of FAO in 1945, Canada and FAO have worked together towards finding solutions to many of the most pressing problems of our time, and tested new ways of delivering support to those most in need. With Canada’s contributions, FAO has reached emergency areas where resilience building and crisis response are crucial, and contributed to rural transformation through investments in agricultural productivity and livelihood opportunities, fundamental to create a sustainable context for long-lasting peace. -
BookletSub-Saharan Africa: Strengthening resilience to safeguard agricultural livelihoods 2021
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No results found.In 2019 and 2020 alone, sub-Saharan Africa was hit by a once-in-a-century desert locust upsurge and the COVID-19 pandemic while simultaneously facing conflict, droughts, and floods among other shocks and stressors. More than 60 percent of the population in sub-Saharan Africa depends on agriculture for food and income. Smallholder farmers, pastoralists, fishers, and foresters are the key change agents in restoring and improving livelihoods in Africa. By carrying out interventions that are both anticipatory and reactive, tackling the root causes of fragility, the challenges facing food security and nutrition can be addressed. In the effort to reach Zero Hunger by 2030, the transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agri-food systems must be supported for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life, leaving no one behind. This publication highlights how FAO is working with partners and governments to strengthen the ability of communities in sub-Saharan Africa and food systems to withstand and rapidly recover from crises. The organization is contributing to safeguarding the livelihoods of the most vulnerable agro/pastoral households in sub-Saharan Africa through a range of activities, including capacity building, knowledge sharing, food security and nutrition analyses, and anticipatory actions. The achievements and interventions presented in this publication are not a comprehensive list of all of FAO’s resilience work in the region but rather provide an overview of what is being done to reach our common goal. This is made possible through strong partnerships at all levels. Resource partners’ valuable contributions in particular are critical to these successes. By strengthening collaboration with local, regional, and global partners, the persistent challenges related to food‑crisis contexts are tackled to build back better livelihoods and agri-food systems, to ensure a positive future for the African people. -
Book (series)Evaluation of FAO’s country programme in Lebanon 2016-2019 2020
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No results found.Lebanon is an upper-middle income country with a population of 4.5 million people. In Lebanon, the agriculture sector’s contribution to economic growth is small, and the sector receives small investment. The country has been severely impacted by the Syrian refugee crisis, with the influx of approximately 1.5 million Syrian refugees representing around one-third of the total Lebanese population of 4.5 million people. The agriculture sector has been viewed as an important contributor to the livelihood of poor and vulnerable populations, including Syrian refugees. The Syrian refugee crisis has shaped FAO’s country portfolio as agriculture is one of the three sectors allowing Syrians to work. FAO prudently integrated the donor and the government priorities by designing a resilience programme to support host communities, with emphasis on vulnerable farmers. FAO’s programme in the country addressed both emergency and longer term development needs through interventions directly supporting small-scale farmers and agro-food cooperatives, community-based subsector planning, natural resource management and capacity development at different levels. In the context of the recent financial and socio-economic crisis beginning in 2019, and renewed interest in agriculture under the United Nations-World Bank Partnership Compact 2018-2020, the Evaluation recommends that FAO assists the Government of Lebanon in transforming the agricultural sector into a more productive and job-creating one. Priority actions include: developing a sector strategy and roadmap towards sustainable and productive agriculture sector; putting in place economic incentives and removing disincentives in value chains; building human capital (planning skills of decision makers and entrepreneurial mindset of farmers); and supporting sustainable and productive use of resources.
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