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Accelerating Agricultural Transformation and Sustainable Rural Development in Beneficiary Countries - FMM/GLO/158/MUL

Year of publication 2024

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Synopsis (short abstract) Agricultural innovation, the process that brings new or existing products, processes or ways of organization into use for the first time in a specific context, is central to transformative change of agrifood systems in least developed countries, low-income Land-locked Developing Countries, and low-income Small Island Developing States, as well as food crisis countries and large countries with high concentrations of poverty. The Hand-in-Hand (HIH) Initiative, launched in 2019, is a flagship of FAO and one of its core priority programme areas. It was developed as an innovative, comprehensive and fully integrated approach to support countries in addressing the above-mentioned issues. The overall objective of this subprogramme was the design, implementation, testing and strengthening of an alternative systematic approach to promoting agricultural innovation, linked systematically to recommendations for programmatic activities and investments for all HIH beneficiary countries. The support provided spanned across four FAO regions: Latin America and the Caribbean, the Near East and North Africa, Africa, and Asia and the Pacific.

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