Innovation to counter food supply-chain disruptions and spur recovery
At Global Forum for Food and Agriculture in Berlin, FAO Director-General appeals for a creative and integrated approach to agri-food systems to drive recovery from COVID-19 and achieve a sustainable world
19 January, 2021, Rome/Berlin - Innovative solutions in agri-food systems helped households and countries contain disruptions in food supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic, and more will be required to build back better and build back greener , FAO s Director-General QU Dongyu said today.
Innovation occurs on the technology frontier but also in policy making and business models, he emphasized while speaking at a virtual high-level panel on how to help strengthen the sustainability of food systems and prevent future pandemics.
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Innovation to counter food supply-chain disruptions and spur recovery
19 January, 2021, Rome/Berlin – Innovative solutions in agri-food systems helped households and countries contain disruptions in food supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic, and more will be required to “build back better and build back greener”, FAO’s Director-General QU Dongyu said today.
Innovation occurs on the technology frontier but also in policy making and business models, he emphasized while speaking at a virtual high-level panel on how to help strengthen the sustainability of food systems and prevent future pandemics.
The event was organized by FAO as part of the week-long Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) in Berlin. Other participants included Julia Klöckner, Germany’s Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture, Thoko Didiza, South Africa’s Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Jamshid Khodjaev, Uzbekistan’s Agriculture Minister, Christian H
Small towns are bigger than we think
Innovative FAO study maps urban-rural catchment areas and points to ways to optimize policy and planning coordination for agriculture, services and agri-food systems
12 January 2021, Rome - Fewer than one percent of the global population live in truly remote hinterlands, sharpening the need for better understanding of how urban forms impact food systems as well as social and economic development, according to ground-breaking new research by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the University of Twente.
Small cities and towns and the rural areas they influence - defined as their catchment areas - play an outsized role in the way people pursue their livelihoods, says the paper, Global mapping of urban-rural catchment areas reveals unequal access to services , just published by the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Fewer than one percent of the global population live in truly remote hinterlands, sharpening the need for better understanding of how urban forms impact food systems and development opportunities, according to ground-breaking new research by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the University of Twente. Smaller cities and towns and their catchment areas play an outsized role in how people pursue livelihoods, especially in low-income countries where they are home to two-thirds of the population.