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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureLinking agrifood SMEs to innovation for sustainable food systems: the role of multi-stakeholder approaches
Webinar outcomes
2023Also available in:
During this webinar, organized by the SFS-MED Platform and held on 13 October 2022, stakeholders from across the Mediterranean shared practical experiences of university-business cooperation, successful cases of innovation adoption and transfer, innovative pathways of capacity development, as well as provocative thoughts from investors and farmers. Panelists and speakers discussed about the needs and challenges that agrifood SMEs and farmers are experiencing in linking with innovation, and investigated possible pathways for transformation, leveraging the added value of multi-stakeholder approaches to promote the uptake of innovation. Moreover, the webinar allowed strengthening collaboration among the different partners and stakeholders shaping the agrifood ecosystem, that are essential to enable SMEs and farmers with solutions, tools and best practices. The discussion was instrumental in demonstrating that linking agrifood SMEs to innovation is key for a sustainable future of the Mediterranean food systems, where SMEs and small-scale producers are empowered as economic actors and agents of change for a blue, green and circular food system transition. There is a need for an interactive innovation ecosystem based on a multi-stakeholder collaboration process that is open and inclusive, where new technologies and organizational processes are co-designed by all food systems actors. To this effect, science diplomacy is a powerful tool to ensure that scientific knowledge is effectively shared and adequately translated to be used by non-scientific stakeholders, leveraging co-creation and win-win solutions through alliances that engage all shores of the Mediterranean on a level-playing field. Moreover, innovative capacity building and training programmes are instrumental in developing the human capital necessary to address skills mismatch between graduates and employment demand from the agri-business sector, enhancing the innovation chain through new professional profiles. Finally, sustainable finance and new financial mechanisms can be unlocked to enhance SME access to affordable innovation and technology. Business incubators and accelerators promote a change of mindset that can lead SMEs to embrace innovation by adopting new business models, matchmaking innovators and co-founders, and inspiring ideas. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetEvaluation reportIntegrated Country Approach for boosting decent jobs for youth in the agrifood system - Phase III
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2024Also available in:
No results found.The project's third phase, which took place in Guatemala, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal and Uganda, aimed to adopt and implement agrifood system development policies, strategies and programmes. These initiatives focused on youth and were sensitive to both gender and decent work. They intended to generate knowledge, raise awareness on youth emplyment programmes, and develop stakeholder capacity and interinstitutional coordination in the agrifood system. The project also focused on strengthening FAO tools and internal capacity to promote gender-sensistive youth emplyment, foster regional and global knowledge sharing and partnerships, and support youth beneficiaries in coping with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetProgramme / project reportIntegrated Country Approach (ICA) for boosting decent jobs for youth in the agrifood system - Fourth phase (2024–2027) 2024
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The Brief provides an overview of the project “Integrated Country Approach for boosting decent jobs for youth in agrifood system, Phase IV” (ICA 4).Since 2011, FAO has been implementing the Integrated Country Approach (ICA) programme to assist countries in developing inclusive agrifood policies, strategies and programmes for the promotion of youth engagement and employment in agrifood system. The fourth phase, that will be implemented in Ecuador, Viet Nam, and Zambia, aims at improving market functions or rules to generate more and better jobs for the rural youth. The brief presents the ICA-4 approach in detail. The brief includes the following sections: (i) youth employment in agrifood systems related challenges addressed by the project; (ii) project’ and target countries (Ecuador, Viet Nam and Zambia); (iii) expected results; and (iv) project’s logic.
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Book (stand-alone)General interest bookAgrInvest-Food Systems Project – Political economy analysis of the Kenyan food systems
Key political economy factors and promising value chains to improve food system sustainability
2020Also available in:
No results found.This publication supports the AgrInvest-Food Systems project by analyzing Kenya’s national food system through food systems and political economy approach. These approaches resulted in mapping and linking Kenya’s food system outcomes and challenges, structural factors and drivers, sustainability challenges, and institutions and actors. These analyses led to the identification of two promising value chains for SDG-aligned investments, namely indigenous vegetables and aquaculture, and of the bottlenecks that currently impede more investments in Kenya. -
Book (stand-alone)General interest bookFood Systems Profile – Kenya
Catalysing the sustainable and inclusive transformation of food systems
2023Also available in:
No results found.Food systems are intimately linked to our lives – through the food we eat, our nutrition and health, our livelihoods, jobs, and the environment and natural resources of the planet. The main challenge for food systems is to produce nutritious food for all while preserving our biodiversity and environment and ensuring equitable distribution of wealth. This Food Systems Profile provides a summary of the main food system issues in Kenya and highlights potential solutions for their sustainable and inclusive transformation. It is the result of a systemic analysis and stakeholders' consultation that was part of a global assessment of food systems in over 50 countries, following a joint initiative by the European Union, FAO, and CIRAD which aims at catalysing the sustainable and inclusive transformation of food systems. -
BookletCorporate general interestEmissions due to agriculture
Global, regional and country trends 2000–2018
2021Also available in:
No results found.The FAOSTAT emissions database is composed of several data domains covering the categories of the IPCC Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector of the national GHG inventory. Energy use in agriculture is additionally included as relevant to emissions from agriculture as an economic production sector under the ISIC A statistical classification, though recognizing that, in terms of IPCC, they are instead part of the Energy sector of the national GHG inventory. FAO emissions estimates are available over the period 1961–2018 for agriculture production processes from crop and livestock activities. Land use emissions and removals are generally available only for the period 1990–2019. This analytical brief focuses on overall trends over the period 2000–2018.