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ProjectStrengthening Capacities to Operate Government-Led Home-Grown School Food Initiatives in Ethiopia and Senegal - GCP/GLO/775/ITA 2022
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Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF) is a school feeding model that provides children in schools with safe, diverse and nutritious food sourced locally from smallholders. The benefits of HGSF go beyond education and nutrition to tackle livelihoods of smallholder farmers and local communities. However, building links between school feeding programmes and local and smallholder agriculture production requires adjustments and reforms at institutional, policy and regulatory levels. This includes the alignment of public procurement laws, regulations and related practices. Against this background, building on the previous experience of the Purchase from Africans for Africa (PAA Africa) programme designed and implemented by FAO and the World Food Programme (WFP) to support HGSF, the project aimed to enhance the technical capacity of the governments of Ethiopia and Senegal to operate their current HGSF initiatives. The project also provided additional options for decision making on supply chain and business models, operational modalities, adapted procurement regulatory frameworks and contractual options, for an inclusive public procurement of a diversified school food basket. -
ProjectSupporting the European Union’s Analytical and Decision-Making Capacity on Agricultural Investments - GCP/GLO/948/EC 2024
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No results found.Although agriculture provides the main source of income for around half a billion smallholders in the world, farmers and small rural enterprises face challenges in attracting the necessary capital, particularly from local financial institutions, to improve their productivity, livelihoods and supply chain participation.In 2017, as part of their strategic dialogue, FAO and the European Union decided to expand their collaboration in the area of investment support, with a view to enabling greater private investment in sustainable agrifood systems that might have a strong development impact. In this context, the present AgrIntel project was designed in 2018 with the overarching objective of supporting the European Union’s analytical and decision-making capacity on agricultural investments, including value chain analysis and investment support services.The project had three main goals, namely (i) to support the INTPA in making informed decisions regarding the European Union’s specific investment operations in agricultural value chains, in particular concerning economic, social and environmental sustainability, (ii)to contribute to the overall generation of knowledge and dialogueon agrifood value chains in countries of interest to INTPA, and(iii)to provide demand-driven investment support services to improvethe dissemination of value chain and investment analysis amongkey value chain stakeholders. To achieve these goals, the project wasstructured around three main areas: blended finance advisory services,food systems assessments (FSAs) and the Global Sustainable CocoaInitiative (SCI). -
Book (stand-alone)Fruit and vegetables
Opportunities and challenges for small-scale sustainable farming
2021This book will convince the reader to care about fruit and vegetables and to see that the small-scale production of these crops is fundamental to achieving sustainable development goals. In five chapters, the reader will learn about the challenges and rewards for producers, sellers, and consumers. Chapter 1: a working definition for fruit and vegetables, making the case for supporting small-scale farmers and value chains. Chapter 2: options for farm management to ensure that production is sustainable including genetic resources, seed systems, management of water, soil, nutrients, and control of pests and diseases. Chapter 3: options to integrate small-scale commercial fruit and vegetable farmers into socially inclusive value chains, including innovative post-harvest handling services, market linkages, and reducing food loss and waste. Chapter 4: options for practitioners and policymakers at different governmental, institutional and social levels to promote the sustainable production and consumption of safe, nutritious, and affordable fruit and vegetables. Chapter 5: key interventions and innovations to facilitate the sustainable production of fruit and vegetables in low- and middle-income countries across the world. This publication takes readers on a journey introducing them to a diverse array of fruit and vegetables through colorfully illustrated studies from around the world. It justifies the importance of these crops and it encourages readers to take an active role both in promoting fruit and vegetable production and in encouraging more people to eat them.
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