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Strengthening Global Agrifood Governance: a Multi-Country Initiative for Sustainable Development - FMM/GLO/127/MUL

Year of publication 2024

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Synopsis (short abstract) The achievement of SDGs relies heavily on increased political commitment and explicit capacities to leverage agriculture and food systems to combat malnutrition, poverty and inequality while ensuring sustainable resource management to cover substantial annual investments. To address these challenges, the global community, notably through bodies like the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has developed and endorsed global instruments for responsible governance of tenure and investment in agriculture and food systems, such as the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT), the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems (RAI), the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF) and the Voluntary Guidelines on the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security (RtF). In response to these needs, the subprogramme targeted six countries (Lao People's Democratic Republic, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Sierra Leone and Tunisia) to enhance the capacities of key stakeholders, including government and civil society, to adapt these global guidelines and principles to their national contexts. Additionally, it catered for activities developed in the scope of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF) 2019-2028.

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