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Enhancing Agrifood Systems in Pacific SIDS: Digital Village Initiative as a Catalyst for Sustainable Development

2024 Pacific SIDS Solutions Forum, Nadi, Fiji, 5-8 November 2024

Year of publication 2024

Place of publication Apia, Samoa ;

Pages 18 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Synopsis (short abstract) The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched the Digital Village Initiative (DVI) to promote digital innovations that support inclusive, gender-sensitive rural development and sustainable agrifood transformation in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The DVI adopts a country-led, user-centred, and holistic digital ecosystem approach to digital village development. This approach combines territorial strategies, innovative design, pilot projects, and local ownership to ensure that digital solutions are tailored to each community's specific needs and demands, fostering long-term sustainability.In the Asia-Pacific region, the FAO Regional Office conducted an assessment of digital village models across 13 countries, documenting pilots, models and prototypes. Inspired by this diversity, FAO developed a blueprint for supporting digital villages based on country ownership, bottom-up approaches and ecosystem-centred development. This blueprint guides the DVI's implementation and customizes support functions to each country's digital needs and advancement. This paper reports on FAO's Digital Village Initiative work in the Pacific, and was presented at the 2024 Small Island Developing States Solutions (SIDS) Forum held in Nadi, Fiji from 5-8 November 2024

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