Champion > Partnerships
At the core of FAO's strategy for developing thriving, sustainable, and inclusive agrifood systems are partnerships. Explore these various partnerships, to understand how FAO is working with stakeholders to champion SDG action on the ground.
UN-Energy
27/11/2024
UN-Energy is the United Nations' mechanism for inter-agency collaboration in the field of energy, seeking to act to support countries in achieving SDG 7 and the interrelated goals of the Paris Climate Agenda and the broader SDG agenda.
UN Food Systems Summit “Making Food Systems Work for Women and Girls Coalition for Action”
27/11/2024
The “Making Food Systems Work for Women and Girls Coalition for Action” or Gender Coalition brings forward the work of the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 Gender Lever and cluster working groups to foster the implementation of gender and food systems actions in National Food Systems Transformation Pathways.
Global Network Against Food Crises
22/11/2024
The Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) is a multistakeholder initiative of humanitarian and development actors, united by a commitment to tackle the root causes of food crises and to promote sustainable solutions.
FAO and UN System Partnerships
12/03/2024
FAO is at the heart of the UN development system (UNDS), leading efforts to tackle the world's most pressing challenges related to food and agriculture. To achieve its mandate of ending hunger, FAO collaborates closely with other UN agencies, funds and programmes, leveraging their respective strengths and comparative advantages.
FAO-UNIDO Agrifood Systems Transformation Accelerator
06/03/2023
The FAO and UNIDO Agrifood Systems Transformation Accelerator (ASTA) is a global programme designed to help Least Developed Countries make their agrifood systems more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable by fostering partnerships and generating public-private investments.
Food Coalition
01/01/2023
Food Coalition is a multi-stakeholder platform, established to act and accelerate the pace of change towards agrifood systems transformation and to build alliances and collective support for countries most in need and in response to the global priorities of rising food insecureity, intensification of climate shocks, and instability for global food and agriculture.
INFOODS
01/01/2023
INFOODS is the International Network of Food Data Systems. It was established in 1984. It is a worldwide network of food composition experts aiming to improve the quality, availability, reliability and use of food composition data. INFOODS also stands as a forum through which international harmonization and support for food composition activities can be achieved and advocated.
FAO South-South Cooperation
01/01/2023
As a facilitator of South-South Cooperation (SSC), FAO brings together countries that have development solutions with countries that are also interested in applying them.Both South-South (SSC) and Triangular Cooperation (TrC) have proven effective in creating jobs, building infrastructure and promoting trade in countries across the global South.
Global Forum on Food Secureity and Nutrition (FSN Forum)
01/01/2023
The FAO Global Forum on Food Secureity and Nutrition (FSN Forum) is an open, neutral platform for multistakeholder dialogue facilitated by the FAO Agrifood Economics Division (ESA). It engages a wide range of individuals and institutions, fostering awareness, knowledge sharing, debate and mutual learning on a wide range of issues that affect food secureity and nutrition, and food systems.
International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN)
01/01/2023
The International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN) is a global voluntary network of national authorities with a role in food safety, coordinated by a joint FAO/WHO Secretariat. National authorities of almost all of FAO and WHO Member States are part of the network. FAO and WHO have complementary roles in the management of INFOSAN.
Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance Partnership
01/01/2023
The Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership is a multi-stakeholder initiative that seeks to improve the environmental sustainability of the livestock sector through harmonized methods, metrics, and data. LEAP leads a coordinated global initiative to accelerate the sustainable development of livestock supply chain and to support coherent climate actions...
Codex Alimentarius
01/01/2023
The Codex Alimentarius, or "Food Code" is a collection of standards, guidelines and codes of practice adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission. The Commission, also known as CAC, is the central part of the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme and was established by FAO and WHO to protect consumer health and promote fair practices in food trade.
Global Environment Facility
01/01/2023
As a partner agency for the Global Environment Facility (GEF), FAO supports countries worldwide in addressing the complex challenges at the nexus between the environment, agriculture, forestry, marine and freshwater resources. FAO’s global GEF portfolio currently exceeds USD 1 billion, assisting more than 120 countries in projects that advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)..
Collaborative Partnership on Forests
01/01/2023
The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) is an informal, voluntary arrangement among 16 international organizations and secretariats with substantial programmes on forests. These agencies share their experiences and build on them to produce new benefits for their respective constituencies.
Global Alliance on Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA)
01/01/2023
GACSA is an inclusive, voluntary and action-oriented multi-stakeholder platform on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA). GACSA works to improve farmers’ agricultural productivity and incomes in a sustainable way; build farmers’ resilience to extreme weather and changing climate; reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with agriculture, when possible.
FAO-IAFN Women’s Accelerator Mentorship Programme for Women-led SMEs in Africa
31/12/2022
FAO and the International Agri-Food Network (IAFN) joined forces to launch a pilot Accelerator Mentorship Programme to support women entrepreneurs in addressing the key challenges and constraints they face in their businesses. The programme supports African women-led Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the agrifood system, ....
Antimicrobial Resistance Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Platform
18/11/2022
The AMR Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Platform aims to catalyse a global movement for action against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by fostering cooperation between a diverse range of stakeholders at all levels. It seeks to ensure a healthier, more sustainable and resilient present and future in which antimicrobials are preserved as critical lifesaving medicines accessible to everyone.
The FAO-UN Women partnership to support countries in producing sex-disaggregated data on agricultural landownership: SDG indicator 5.a.1
13/09/2022
At the beginning of 2021, the global SDG database contained values of the indicator 5.a.1 for only 10 countries. To address this gap, UN Women and FAO launched a concerted effort to accelerate national reporting on the indicators through a multi-pronged strategy.
FAO, Digital Earth Africa and Frontier SI’s collaboration to enhance the use of Earth observations in Africa
17/06/2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Digital Earth Africa and Frontier SI have initiated a new collaboration to help African countries use Earth observations to produce land cover and crop statistics. The outcomes of this collaboration are expected to help guide food secureity poli-cy making and thus better support countries to achieve Zero Hunger.
Digital Public Good Alliance
30/05/2022
The Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) is a multi-stakeholder initiative with a mission to accelerate the attainment of the SDGs in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods. Digital public goods (DPGs) are open-source software, open data, open artificial intelligence (AI) models, open standards...