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Access to #HealthyDiets is a challenge for many with 3 billion people unable to afford nutritious food. FAO explores solutions to transform agrifood systems, promoting diverse, culturally rooted diets that are affordable & sustainable worldwide. 👉 https://bit.ly/40B66wL  

In Azerbaijan 🇦🇿, a traditional nomadic lifestyle is evolving. With FAO's support, Mahammad’s dairy cooperative is embracing modern techniques, empowering families & boosting local food security. Discover their journey to sustainable growth 🔗 https://bit.ly/48HzN11 #COP29

Camelids are essential providers of milk for the communities that depend on them. 🐪🦙🐫 2024 is the International #YearOfCamelids. Swipe to discover how camel and dromedary milk contributes to livelihoods, food security and nutrition. #IYC2024

Globally Important #AgriculturalHeritage Systems are outstanding agricultural landscapes that combine: 🔹Traditional knowledge 🔸Biodiversity 🔹Resilient ecosystems 🔸Valuable cultural heritage 📽️Watch to learn more.

Now available: Empowering rural women to engage in responsible agricultural investments in Sierra Leone.   This FAO manual, developed in collaboration with @solidaridad-network West Africa, helps organizations empower rural women in #SierraLeone by supporting them to engage in responsible agricultural investments. The manual includes illustrations, videos and interviews. Download it here 👉 https://buff.ly/40seQVK

🔶Protecting agricultural knowledge & tradition 🔷Preserving precious biodiversity 🔶Conserving ecosystems and resources 🔷Supporting local communities This is what FAO's Globally Important #AgriculturalHeritage Systems programme is about. Learn more👉bit.ly/3qsslln

Pacific Islands countries began a key gathering here today to work toward agrifood systems transformation that addresses their unique challenges and vulnerabilities particularly in the context of the climate crisis. Organized by FAO and the Government of Fiji, the SIDS (Small Island Developing States) Solutions Forum 2024, from 5 to 8 November, is a high level platform, aimed at sharing innovative solutions and showcasing their impacts and scalability to transform how food is produced, distributed and consumed in the Pacific Islands region. The gathering brings together hundreds of professionals including public policymakers, practitioners, international donors, community leaders, agri-entrepreneurs, investors, and private sector representatives with the theme “Transforming Agrifood Systems for our Blue Pacific Continent through Better Production, Better Nutrition, a Better Environment and a Better Life.”  During the week the Forum will also focus on progress and innovation in the Pacific through FAO’s #4Betters principles that guide its work – Better Nutrition, Better Production, a Better Environment and a Better Life, leaving no one behind. Other key topics on the agenda include agroforestry, data and FAO’s Digital Village Initiative and Hand in Hand Initiative. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dhZrRb9F

In Kazakhstan's Koram village, women like Aishagul are transforming their lives through greenhouse farming, gaining stability and economic independence with FAO and Global Environment Facility support. Discover how greenhouses are changing futures 🔗 https://bit.ly/3YRQAeJ

Policy makers, researchers and the public have a new resource to gauge the scale and importance of agrifood systems in providing employment around the world. FAO has launched five new indicators and overhauled the data available on its #FAOSTAT portal, the global go-to resource for those interested in agrifood facts and rural livelihoods. The new FAOSTAT offering gives useful insights on what is the world’s largest labor sector, employing close to 1.3 billion people, or 39.2 percent of the global work force. It also sets the stage for more detailed monitoring of trends at a local level going forward. The expanded data domain now provides, at the country, regional and global levels, information on 23 indicators ranging from employment in agrifood systems, status in employment, divisions of agriculture and hours worked of the people employed in agriculture, forestry and fishing and in rural areas by sex and age whenever possible. Key indicators refer to agricultural and non-agricultural employment in agrifood systems and break down data by age groups, sex and sectors of agriculture including forestry and logging and fishing and aquaculture as well as hunting and crop and animal production. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dZbFg5Ne

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are more vulnerable to natural disasters and often rely on imports due to limited natural resources. Here are ways FAO is helping #SIDS achieve food security #SmallIslands