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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetTrade and Sustainable Development Goal 2: Policy options and their trade-offs
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2020With trade recognized as a means of implementation under Agenda 2030, policy-makers will need to ensure that trade, and policies affecting trade and markets, are taken into consideration as part of their efforts to achieve SDG 2. The five targets that set out the level and ambition of SDG 2, as well as trade itself, often constitute distinct competing policy priorities for governments. It is therefore important that policy-makers identify and recognize areas in which difficult tradeoffs may be needed between competing policy objectives, and identify possible ways in which these can be addressed. Furthermore, while the different targets set out under SDG 2 are mutually interdependent and inter-related, it is important to address the trade policy dimension of each component individually as part of a broader plan of action. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetEvaluation of FAO’s contributions to Sustainable Development Goal 2
Support to agricultural investment
2021Also available in:
No results found.Agricultural investment is key to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2). This study – part of the evaluation of the role of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in supporting SDG 2 – examines the FAO Investment Centre’s role in promoting agricultural investment in Africa, focusing on investment programme design and implementation. The study finds that despite an increase in lending, international financial institutions have less and less capacity to prepare and supervise ever more complex operations and are particularly short of in-country capacity. This makes it difficult to contextualize interventions for sustainability and results. In-country specialists who understand and have experience of working with farmers are therefore needed, making the Investment Centre a critical resource. Notwithstanding recent infusions of support, however, it remains understaffed and underfunded. As far as the Investment Centre’s 2018 cooperative agreement with the African Development Bank is concerned, the study finds that while the Centre has undertaken some work under the agreement, financial and political constraints may be why it has not yet gained significant programmatic traction. It also finds that the Centre’s World Bank partnership is strong, but faces a number of challenges. The Investment Centre is working with the Office of FAO’s Chief Economist to develop a programme of engagement, which will give World Bank country managers the data they need to make informed decisions on agricultural investment. The study also calls for greater FAO senior management and country office support in FAO’s interactions with the World Bank. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetEvaluation of FAO’s contributions to Sustainable Development Goal 2
Aquaculture promotion and Blue Growth
2021Also available in:
No results found.This review forms part of the overarching evaluation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contribution to Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2), as requested by the FAO Programme Committee at its 125th session. FAO’s Blue Growth initiative is a strategic, innovative approach to improving the use of aquatic resources while simultaneously increasing social, economic and environmental benefits for communities dependent on fisheries and aquaculture. The study finds that FAO has traditionally offered “discrete” support actions that are “packaged”, staffed and financed as such. However, having large-scale national economic effects requires a programmatic sequence of interrelated actions over a prolonged period. This has implications for the way in which such programmes are funded, how FAO’s budget is structured and disbursed, and the expertise and experience required of FAO staff ‒ all of which need to be aligned to such a way of working. As such, the study recommends that FAO develop programmatic aquaculture and Blue Growth interventions to supplement Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) projects and bring about “joined-up” design and strategy. Additionally, FAO could benefit from the expertise of other professionals to deliver its increasingly multifaceted, multidisciplinary, holistic Blue Growth and aquaculture projects, particularly in relation to commercial markets, business models, innovation, new products and service development.
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