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Let Learning Lead: A Promising Practice for Agrifood Systems Transformation. Emerging Insights and Innovations from the SFS-MED Experience.

Report of the workshop “Agrifood Systems Learning for Change – The SFS-MED Experience”, FAO Headquarters, 6-7 June 2024

Year of publication 2024

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 21 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Synopsis (short abstract) Since 2021, the multi-stakeholder initiative for Sustainable Food Systems in the Mediterranean (SFS-MED Platform) has adopted an innovative regional approach to agrifood systems transformation by building a network for shared learning in response to existing agrifood challenges. This report documents specific and beneficial agrifood systems changes as a result of SFS-MED, illustrates the role and practices of accompanied networked learning in working collectively to achieve results and makes the case to enrich and expand systems change learning as one of several pathways to agrifood systems transformation.

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FAO. 2024. Let Learning Lead: A Promising Practice for Agrifood Systems Transformation. Emerging Insights and Innovations from the SFS-MED Experience – Report of the workshop “Agrifood Systems Learning for Change - The SFS-MED Experience”. Rome, FAO.

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