Agricultural Technologies for Enhanced Climate Resilience and Smallholder Farmer Livelihoods
Agricultural Technologies for Enhanced Climate Resilience and Smallholder Farmer Livelihoods Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Innovative Solutions for Food Security Challenges
In response to the pressing need for innovative solutions to address food security challenges, a tripartite cooperation agreement has been established between FAO’s Regional Office for the Near East North Africa, the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). This partnership has initiated a comprehensive “Mapping exercise of affordable and transferrable food security-related technologies.”
Target Countries
This project targets ten countries where smallholder farmers face different challenges:
Technology Thematic Areas
The mapping effort focuses on six technology thematic areas critical to improving food security:
- Postharvest, reducing food loss and waste
- Water management and saving technologies
- Sustainable pest control and crop management
- E-commerce and market access
- Fintech
- Green energy for farmers
By identifying, analyzing, and cataloguing affordable, reliable, and environmentally friendly technologies, the project aims to build a knowledge base, a technology assessment framework, and a decision support tool to guide evidence-based investment in promising agricultural technologies within unique contexts. This collaborative effort seeks to accelerate the development and transfer of environmentally friendly technologies, ultimately promoting low-carbon development, environmental sustainability, and increased productivity, while mitigating risks to food security and public health.
SDGs, Targets, and Indicators
| SDGs | Targets | Indicators |
|---|---|---|
| SDG 2: Zero Hunger | 2.3: By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists, and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets, and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment. | – Cataloguing affordable, reliable, and environmentally friendly technologies for small-scale food producers. – Building a knowledge base, a technology assessment framework, and a decision support tool to guide evidence-based investment in promising agricultural technologies within unique contexts. |
| SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy | 7.2: By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix. | – Identifying and analyzing green energy technologies for farmers. |
| SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure | 9.5: Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, in particular developing countries, including, by 2030, encouraging innovation and substantially increasing the number of research and development workers per 1 million people and public and private research and development spending. | – Mapping and cataloguing affordable and transferrable food security-related technologies. |
| SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production | 12.3: By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses. | – Focusing on postharvest technologies to reduce food loss and waste. |
| SDG 13: Climate Action | 13.2: Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies, and planning. | – Promoting low-carbon development and environmental sustainability through the development and transfer of environmentally friendly technologies. |
| SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals | 17.16: Enhance the global partnership for sustainable development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology, and financial resources, to support the achievement of the sustainable development goals in all countries, in particular developing countries. | – Tripartite cooperation agreement between FAO’s Regional Office for the Near East North Africa, the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to initiate the mapping exercise of affordable and transferrable food security-related technologies. |
Source: fao.org
