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Book (stand-alone)SAFA (Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture systems) Guidelines
Version 3.0
2014Also available in:
No results found.The Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture systems (SAFA) Guidelines were developed for assessing the impact of food and agriculture operations on the environment and people. The guiding vision of SAFA is that food and agriculture systems worldwide are characterized by all four dimensions of sustainability: good governance, environmental integrity, economic resilience and social well-being. -
Book (stand-alone)SAFA Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture systems Guidelines
(Test Version 1.1)
2012Also available in:
No results found.Twenty years have passed since the principle of sustainable development received nearly universal agreement at the 1992 Earth Summit. Recent years have seen some progress in the realization of a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable development. Many stakeholders in the food and agriculture sector have contributed to this progress, by improving agricultural productivity, pro-tecting human and natural resources and conceiving and implementing frameworks, standards and indicators for assessing and improving sustainability across the sector and along the value chain. Several converging trends are making it difficult for the world's farmers to keep up with the growth in food demand due to rising populations and changes in consumption patterns. These include in-creased water scarcity, the growing conversion of cropland to non-farm uses, and more extreme climate events. Based on aggregate global trends and outlooks for the future, sustainable develop-ment efforts are not m aking enough positive difference. More accurate data and sound guiding principles to establish a common basis for assessing sustainability is needed. Tackling these chal-lenges requires, among other things, a common language for sustainability, as well as a holistic ap-proach to assessment and implementation that considers the complexity and relationships of all di-mensions of sustainability. Measure what matters. The dilemma is measure WHAT matters to WHOM and HOW? -
Book (stand-alone)Empowering youth to engage in responsible investment in agriculture and food systems: Guidance for organizers and facilitators of the rapid capacity assessment tool 2018This document provides guidance to support the utilization of the “Rapid Capacity Assessment Tool: Empowering youth to engage in responsible investment in agriculture and food systems”. The guidance document contains two distinctive, yet interrelated parts: • Guidance notes for organizers of the capacity assessment, which provide relevant information on planning, designing and conducting the capacity assessment; and • Guidance notes for facilitators, which contain concrete suggestions on how to prepare and facilitate multi-stakeholder discussions on the questions outlined in the tool.
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