Course: Building a common vision for sustainable food and agriculture

Topic outline

This course examines the challenges facing agriculture and food production systems and presents a common vision and coordinated approach towards sustainable food and agriculture developed through intensive consultations and discussions among agriculture specialists. It illustrates in detail the five key principles that allow the transition toward a more sustainable and productive agriculture, highlighting examples of strategies, policies and technologies and explaining several sustainability frameworks and programmes which can underpin the efforts towards the implementation of sustainability in food and agriculture.
System Requirements
System Requirements
The online version of this course runs on the main web browsers. Preferably you should use Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome and Firefox.
The downloadable version only runs on Windows PC’s and no additional software is needed.
Audience
Audience
The course is aimed at policy makers, decision makers and policy advisors in the areas of agriculture, forestry and fisheries. It can also be of interest to specialists and professionals working in these areas.
Content
Content
The course is based on a modular approach and consists of the following six sections:
- Overview of the course - 5 minutes
- Understanding the challenge - 15 minutes
- Developing a common vision to sustainable food and agriculture - 15 minutes
- Five principles for sustainability in food and agriculture - 30 minutes
- How to transition to sustainable food and agriculture - 15 minutes
- Sustainability frameworks, partnerships and approaches - 15 minutes

Topic outline

System Requirements

Audience

Content

Food Security Concepts and Frameworks

Incorporating Climate Change Considerations into Agricultural Investment Programmes

Food Security Information Systems and Networks

Food Security Policies - Formulation and Implementation

Vulnerability Assessment and Analysis

Markets Assessment and Analysis

Availability Assessment and Analysis

Baseline Food Security Assessments

Livelihoods Assessment and Analysis

Introduction to the Responsible Governance of Tenure

Addressing Corruption in the Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests

RuralInvest - Preparing Effective Investment Project Proposals

Nutritional Status Assessment and Analysis

Food Composition Data

Agreeing on causes of malnutrition for joint action

Nutrition, Food Security and Livelihoods: Basic concepts

Addressing Tenure Issues in the Context of Natural Disasters

Governing land for women and men

Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Plan for Food Security and Agriculture Programmes

Pesticide management and child labour prevention

Business strategies and public-private partnerships to end child labour in agriculture

Improving Nutrition through Agriculture and Food Systems

Respecting Free, Prior and Informed Consent

Productive employment and decent work in rural areas

Trade, Food Security and Nutrition

Safeguarding land tenure rights in the context of agricultural investments

SDG Indicator 14.b.1 - Securing sustainable small-scale fisheries

Putting the Voluntary Guidelines on Tenure into Practice: A Learning Guide for Civil Society Organizations

Introduction to Sustainable Development Goal indicators under FAO custodianship

SDG Indicator 5.a.1 - Equal tenure rights for women on agricultural land

SDG Indicator 5.a.2 - Ensuring women’s legal rights to land ownership and/or control

SDG Indicator 6.4.2 - Level of water stress

Food loss analysis case study methodology

Migration and Youth in Rural Areas

The Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems

SDG Indicator 2.1.1 - Prevalence of Undernourishment (PoU)

Promoting youth employment and reducing child labour in agriculture

SDG Indicators 2.5.1 and 2.5.2 - Plant and Animal Genetic Resources

How to conduct a Nutrition Situation Analysis

Climate-smart crop production

Migration and gender

Understanding the risk environment in agriculture

Assessing risk in agriculture

Agricultural risk management tools

Agricultural risk management strategy, policy and mainstreaming

Sustainable land management and land restoration

Creating an enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - fundamentals

Understanding rural poverty

Bivalve Mollusc Sanitation: Growing Area Risk Profile

SDG Indicators 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 - Labour productivity and income of small-scale food producers

Migration and protracted crisis

Participatory frameworks and stakeholder strengthening

Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC). An indigenous peoples’ right and a good practice for local communities

SDG Indicator 2.4.1 - Sustainable Agriculture

Introduction to child labour in agriculture

Engaging stakeholders to end child labour in agriculture

Using data and knowledge to end child labour in agriculture

Incorporating child labour in policies and strategies

Addressing child labour in agricultural programmes

Monitoring and evaluation of child labour in agriculture

Communicating effectively to end child labour in agriculture

Investing responsibly in agricultural land

Introduction to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)

Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Protocols for Acute Food Insecurity

Home-Grown School Feeding

Introduction to national socioeconomic surveys in forestry

Measuring the role of forests and trees in household welfare and livelihoods

Collecting household welfare data through forestry modules

Operationalising the forestry modules

Developing gender-sensitive value chains

Sustainable Food Value Chains for Nutrition

Design and monitor Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture and Food Systems Programmes