This webpage features all available e-learning courses on responsible investment in agriculture and food systems, targeting different stakeholders (government, parliaments, producer organizations, civil society organizations and the private sector) and covering different subjects (including the engagement of women and youth in agricultural investments), to promote application of the Principles for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security.
The e-learning series consists of the following courses:
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Creating an enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Fundamentals
This course illustrates the importance of responsible investment in agriculture and food systems for sustainable development, as well as the scope and content of the CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems (CFS-RAI). It also analyses the features of an institutional, policy, legal and regulatory environment that fosters responsible investment, and it identifies the main actors who play a role in the process of creating such an enabling environment.
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Creating an enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Analysis
This course, which is part of series of three, provides guidance to conduct an analysis and gap identification for the creation of an enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems. Specifically, it describes how to analyse current institutional, policy, legal and regulatory frameworks and compare them with the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems (CFS-RAI) through a context-specific and inclusive multi-stakeholder process.
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Creating an enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Reform
This course, which is part of a series of three, provides guidance on driving reforms that strengthen policy, legal, regulatory and institutional frameworks for responsible agricultural investment (RAI). Specifically, the course provides support to design the reform strategy, establish multistakeholder consultation processes for decision-making and enhance the role of regulatory processes in creating an enabling environment for responsible agricultural investment.
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Empower youth to engage in responsible investment in agriculture and food systems
Empower youth to engage in responsible investment in agriculture and food systems This course is intended to complement the series of three courses “Creating an enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Fundamentals - Analysis – Reform”. It aims to provide guidance on youth-specific issues that should be taken into consideration when creating an enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems.
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Responsible investments in agriculture and food systems. A practical handbook for Parliamentarians and Parliamentary advisors
This handbook provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the role that members of parliament and parliamentary advisors can play in the creation of reliable, coherent, and transparent “enabling environments” in the range of areas related to investment in agriculture and food systems. It offers two different paths: a short version with “must know” information, specifically targeting parliamentarians, and a long version with more detailed information, conceived for advisors.
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Responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - targeted to the private sector
This course is intended to help private investors plan and operate responsible investments by applying the “Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems” (CFS RAI). The course includes also an assessment tool that allows investors to evaluate their company’s compliance with the CFS RAI Principles.
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Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems
Through this mobile resource, you will be able to explore the Principles for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems, endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security.
Some of the courses conclude with a final test. A digital badge certificate is issued upon successful completion of the test.
Depending on the interest of learners, the self-paced courses in this series can be completed as a whole (which is preferable), or as individual courses (or lessons), taken independently.
Throughout the course series, references are made to specific courses or lessons where certain subjects are covered more extensively. Each course takes the learner step-by-step through the learning content using interactive screens and is complemented by exercises and links to additional material and websites for further reading.