Guide on incentives for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems
Guide on incentives for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems

Author: Bulman, A., Cordes, K.Y., Mehranvar, L., Merrill, E., Fiedler, Y.

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2021-05-14

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9251341672

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Increased investment in agriculture and food systems—from both the private and public sectors—is critical to enhance food security and nutrition, reduce poverty, and adapt to climate change. To generate sustainable benefits, this investment must be responsible. What role should investment incentives play in encouraging such investment? This Guide helps to answer that question. Specifically, the Guide provides policymakers and government technical staff with guidance on how investment incentives can be used (and how they should not be used) to enhance responsible investment in agriculture and food systems. The Guide provides an overview of responsible investment in agriculture and food systems; examines common types of incentives; offers general considerations on how incentives can be used; and discusses how to plan for, design, monitor, and evaluate investment incentives for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems.

OECD-FAO Guidance for Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains
OECD-FAO Guidance for Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2016-10-14

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9264251057

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OECD and FAO have developed this guidance to help enterprises observe standards of responsible business conduct and undertake due diligence along agricultural supply chains in order to ensure that their operations contribute to sustainable development.

Promoting responsible investment in agriculture and food systems
Promoting responsible investment in agriculture and food systems

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2018-10-26

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13: 9251094756

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This guide provides a methodology for the review of national legal and institutional frameworks related to responsible investments in agriculture and food systems. It also identifies key areas of regulation within a thematic context, with a focus on larger scale private agricultural investments in primary agriculture.

Save and Grow
Save and Grow

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2018-06-22

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9251068712

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The book offers a rich toolkit of relevant, adoptable ecosystem-based practices that can help the world's 500 million smallholder farm families achieve higher productivity, profitability and resource-use efficiency while enhancing natural capital.

Empowering young agri-entrepreneurs to invest in agriculture and food systems
Empowering young agri-entrepreneurs to invest in agriculture and food systems

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2020-10-14

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9251333424

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Measures that empower young agri-entrepreneurs should be a key component of a sustainable development-centred investment promotion strategy. The very realization of future generations’ food security, the sustainable transformation of food systems and the combat against unemployment and distress migration all depend upon the successful implementation of strategies that make the agri-food sector more attractive for the youth. This, in turn, requires smart policy responses that will help young investors overcome the numerous barriers they face – access to finance, land, information and technical services, to name but the most crucial ones.Since 2017, FAO has provided support to African and South-East Asian countries in identifying key challenges for young agri-entrepreneurs and good practices through participatory capacity analyses and strategic planning processes which were carried out with, and for the youth. This report summarizes the main findings and lessons learned from FAO’s work with eleven African countries – Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea Conakry, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia and Uganda. It identifies key challenges and policy recommendations regarding youth’s access to finance; land; technical services and information; as well as the engagement of youth in policy-making processes. The report also contains a set of five overall key policy recommendations for the empowerment of young agri-entrepreneurs.

Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Developing Markets
Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Developing Markets

Author: Joshua Y. Abor

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-05-09

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1803927062

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Covering pertinent areas of sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) this forward-looking book examines SRI in developing markets including its evolution, principles and concepts. It explores the drivers and challenges in developing economies and analyses the theoretical underpinnings to critical issues pertaining to SRI.

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Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published:

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9251387257

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SAFA Guidelines
SAFA Guidelines

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Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789251084854

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The Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture Systems (SAFA) Guidelines were developed for assessing the impact of food and agriculture operations on the environment and people. The guiding vision of SAFA is that food and agriculture systems worldwide are characterized by all four dimensions of sustainability: good governance, environmental integrity, economic resilience and social well-being.

Renewable energy for agri-food systems: Towards the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement
Renewable energy for agri-food systems: Towards the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement

Author: International Renewable Energy Agency

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2021-11-03

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9251352356

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In 2021, the United Nations Secretary-General will convene the Food Systems Summit to advance dialogue and action towards transforming the way the world produces, consumes and thinks about food guided by the overarching vision of a fairer, more sustainable world. The Secretary-General will also convene the High-Level Dialogue on Energy (HLDE) to promote the implementation of the energy-related goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Given the inextricable linkages between the energy and agriculture sectors, integrating the nexus perspective within the FSS and the HLDE is crucial to formulate a joint vision of actions to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement. In this context, IRENA and FAO have decided to jointly develop a report on the role of renewable energy used in food chain to advance energy and food security as well as climate action towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. While energy has a key enabling role in food system transformation and innovation in agriculture, its current use is unsustainable because of the high dependence on fossil fuels and frequent access to energy in developing countries. The challenge is to disconnect fossil fuel use from food system transformation without hampering food security. The use of renewable energy in food systems offers vast opportunities to address this challenge and help food systems meet their energy needs while advancing rural development while contributing to rural development and climate action.

Making Better Policies for Food Systems
Making Better Policies for Food Systems

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2021-01-11

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9264967834

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Food systems around the world face a triple challenge: providing food security and nutrition for a growing global population; supporting livelihoods for those working along the food supply chain; and contributing to environmental sustainability. Better policies hold tremendous promise for making progress in these domains.