Perspective of FAO on SDG, Paris Agreement and
SFDRR implementation in countries through
sustainable food and agriculture
FAO Strategic Programmes – REU Focal Points
Eradicating hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition
Making agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable
Reducing rural poverty
Enabling more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems
Increasing resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises
Climate change
Sustainability Issues
Disaster Risks
affect and transform all sectors and stages of food and agriculture
crop, livestock, forestry, fisheries, aquaculture
Sustainable food and agriculture is key to transform national development
Growth in the agriculture sectors is one of the most effective means of reducing poverty (SDG1), providing livelihoods.
It is key to ending hunger and malnutrition (SDG2) and essential for several SDGs (SDGs 2, 13, 14, 15 and other).
What changes in practices make agriculture and food systems
More climate “smart”
More sustainable
?
More risk “resilient”
Sendai framework for DRR
Example: changing crop production practices at different stages
Input > Production > Storage > Processing > Transport > Consumption > Waste
More sustainable?
economically?
environmentally?
socially?
More climate-smart?
More risk-resilient?
Changing the enabling environment for practice change
Examples of practice change options:
1. Integrated systems (livestock-crop-fish, silvopastoral, agroforestry,....)
2. Crop: drought/heat-tolerant varieties, nitrogenefficient varieties, zero-tillage, cover crops,
precision agriculture (fertilizer, drip
irrigation,..), natural pest predation, rotation
mgmt., nutrient-rich crops, vegetables, nuts
and fruits...
3. Livestock: adapted breeds, disease resistant
breeds, on-farm feed production, manure use,
by-product feed...
4. Fisheries and aquaculture co-production
5. Forestry co-production, windbreaks, orchards,
energy by-products,...
6. Post-harvest storage facilities
7. Energy-efficient cooling systems
8. Local supply chains, regional/urban markets
9. Climate and weather forecast services
10. Integrated early warning systems, vulnerability
& risk profiling, contingency plans
11. Green labelling, certification, standards
12. Food waste reduction measures, etc..
Enabling
environment to
manage cost,
benefit, risk of
practice change
National
development
plans, sectoral
strategies,
investment
plans
SDG target
commitments
Climate change
commitments
Disaster risk
commitments
Assessing potential practice changes needs to cover
all stages of agricultural and food production and consumption
“Five principles of sustainable food and agriculture” aim to
enable dialogue across agricultural sectors and stakeholders along value chains and at different levels
ensure balanced sustainability and consistency of actions
encourage collaboration and enhance overall contribution to sustainable development
Possible next steps
1. Map relevance of SDG targets, climate and DRR commitments <-> agri-food sectors
2. Raise awareness of key role of food and agriculture in national SDG, climate and DRR agenda
3. Identify and address information gaps, particularly on SDG indicators
4. Enter into dialogue on possible actions with stakeholders: dialogue with the private sector and
other stakeholders is essential for making progress
5. Identify possible actions for upcoming multi-year plans, determining contributions to SDG targets
and costs and check possibilities to mobilizing (budget) funding and investments
THANK YOU
Perspective of FAO on SDG, Paris Agreement and SFDRR
implementation in countries through sustainable food and agriculture
FAO Strategic Programmes – REU Focal Points
Eradicating hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition
Making agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable
Reducing rural poverty
Enabling more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems
Increasing resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises