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Making Agricultural Value Chain Programmes Work for Workers: A Practical Guide for Development Donors and Practitioners







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    Practical recommendations for donors to improve the enabling environment and increase sustainable investments in the dairy value chain in Ethiopia 2024
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    This policy note aims at providing practical and evidence-based recommendations to improve the enabling environment and subsequently increase sustainable investments in the whole dairy value chain (VC) in Ethiopia. The relevance of this policy note relies on the fact that to date, there are multiple assessment and studies that have been conducted on the VC but – to the authors' knowledge – no study has yet attempted to study the linkages between the challenges as well as to determine which challenges faced by VC actors are effectively enabling environment factors. In other words, building from these multiple studies and some specific studies, this note aims at going one step further by mapping the different challenges found in the VC assessments, as several of them are closely intertwined (like land size affecting both feeding and effective cattle management), as well as determining at what scale the challenges impact the VC. For instance, some factors have a national level impact (i.e. they are a national enabling environment factor, affecting most or all VC actors), others have a regional level impact (i.e. a regional enabling environmental factor, affecting only the VC actors of a specific region), while others heavily depend on the individual characteristics of the VC actors.
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    Develop Quality Management Systems and Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) for Priority Value Chains - TCP/BOT/3904 2025
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    Agriculture is the main sector supporting poor rural households in Botswana. While commercialization of the agricultural sector is a key priority for the Government of Botswana, value chain actors need support to strengthen their capacities, improve the quality and safety of their products and increase diversification through value addition and access to markets. In this context, the project aimed to assist value chain actors to develop and implement Quality Management Systems (QMS), Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and Standard Codes of Practice to improve product quality management in agricultural enterprises and to therefore maximize market and production competitiveness of food and agricultural products at local, national and international levels. The main objective of the project was to help ensure that agricultural commodities meet certain standard requirements, which will ultimately improve and increase their production competitiveness, create decent jobs and employment opportunities and develop the potential for broad-based industrialization. The proposed activities of this project aimed to introduce technical solutions that were new to the beneficiaries and stakeholders including agricultural standards, innovative practices for wastewater use, improved knowledge for market access, and QMS.

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    2024年世界渔业和水产养殖状况
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    2024年版《世界渔业和水产养殖状况》重点介绍了“蓝色转型在行动”的内容,包括粮农组织与各成员、合作伙伴和关键利益相关方在以下方面合作开展的活动和举措:将水产食品纳入全球粮食安全和可持续性议题,加强政策咨询、科学研究和能力建设,推广可持续的做法和技术创新,并支持社区参与。本报告第1部分得益于数据收集、分析和评估工具及方法方面的重大进展,展现了世界渔业和水产养殖业的生产和利用方面的最新情况。第2部分重点介绍了粮农组织及其合作伙伴在推动转型变革以支持水产养殖规模化和集约化发展、全球渔业有效管理和水产价值链升级方面的作用。第3部分介绍了整鱼和副产品利用方面尚未发掘的潜力所带来的重大挑战和机遇,说明水产食品体系能够发挥重要作用,提在应对气候变化、保护生物多样性和环境方面提供关键且妥善的解决方案,突显出将水产食品体系纳入国家进程和多边进程的重要性。本报告还在各项预测的基础上,提出了直到2032年的未来趋势展望。本报告为政策制定者、管理者、科学家、渔民、养殖户、贸易商、民间社会活动家和消费者等广大读者们提供了有关影响渔业和水产养殖业当前及未来的挑战、机遇和创新的基于实证的最新信息,支持政策、科学和技术方面的见解。
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    Report of the Africa Regional Consultative Meeting on Securing sustainable small-scale fisheries: bringing together responsible fisheries and social development, Maputo, Mozambique, 12-14 October 2010. / Rapport de l’atelier consultatif régional africain sur les pêches artisanales pour une pêche artisanale durable: associer la pêche responsable au développement social, Maputo, Mozambique, 12-14 octobre 2010. 2011
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    The African workshop was one of three regional consultative workshops carried out as a follow-up to the 2009 inception workshop of the FAO Extra-Budgetary Programme on Fisheries and Aquaculture for Poverty Alleviation and Food Security. The workshops built on the outcomes of the Global Conference on Small-Scale Fisheries held in Bangkok in October 2008 and referred to the recommendations made by the 26th Session of the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) in March 2009 with regard to the potential development of an international instrument and programme for small-scale fisheries. The purpose of the workshops was to provide guidance on the scope and contents of such an international small-scale fisheries instrument and on the possible priorities and implementation modalities for a global assistance programme. It was organised around plenary presentations on key subjects and working group discussions. The workshop agreed that an international instrument on small-scale fisheries and a rela ted programme would be important tools for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries. It recommended that a small-scale fisheries international instrument and assistance programme should be informed by human rights principles and existing instruments relevant to good governance and sustainable development, comprise the ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) as a guiding principle for resource management and development and incorporate Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Climate Change Adaption (C CA) as an integral part considering that DRM is a continuum process, before, during and after a disaster. The workshop recognised the value and worldwide acceptance of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and strongly felt that a small-scale fisheries instrument should be closely aligned to the Code. The instrument should build on what already exists and use a similar language to the Code. In developing the instrument, reference should be made not only to States but also to other sta keholders, recognizing the shared responsibility with regard to resource sustainability and livelihood security. Local, national and regional ownership should be ensured. Implementation aspects should be considered already at the design stage, including the need for technical guidance and supportive mechanisms. Results monitoring should be based on well-defined impact indicators and be an integral part of the implementation modalities.
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    The future of food and agriculture - Trends and challenges 2017
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    What will be needed to realize the vision of a world free from hunger and malnutrition? After shedding light on the nature of the challenges that agriculture and food systems are facing now and throughout the 21st century, the study provides insights into what is at stake and what needs to be done. “Business as usual” is not an option. Major transformations in agricultural systems, rural economies, and natural resources management are necessary. The present study was undertaken for the quadrennial review of FAO’s strategic framework and for the preparation of the Organization Medium-Term plan 2018-2021.