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Welcome to the FAO elearning Academy

Strengthening capacity to face global challenges

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Welcome to the FAO elearning Academy

Strengthening capacity to face global challenges

Join for free

Welcome to the FAO elearning Academy

Strengthening capacity to face global challenges

Join for free

Welcome to the FAO elearning Academy

Strengthening capacity to face global challenges

Join for free

Welcome to the FAO elearning Academy

Strengthening capacity to face global challenges

Join for free

Welcome to the FAO elearning Academy

Strengthening capacity to face global challenges

Join for free

Welcome to the FAO elearning Academy

Strengthening capacity to face global challenges

Join for free

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Latest Courses

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Resilient Rivers

March 2023
3 h 30 m
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Developing bankable business plans for sustainable forest-based enterprises

February 2023
1 h 40 m
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Climate Change Negotiations for Agriculture Stakeholders

February 2023
1 h 45 m
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Agripreneurship 101

January 2023
4 h
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Governance in small-scale fisheries

January 2023
3 h
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Farm machinery and equipment for harvest, post-harvest and storage

January 2023
45 m
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Knowledge management for emergency and resilience programming

December 2022
1 h
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Highly Hazardous Pesticides

December 2022
3 h
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The role of knowledge management and learning for emergency and resilience programming 

December 2022
3 m
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Introduction to Foot-and-Mouth Disease

December 2022
2 h 40 m
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Estimating methane emissions from enteric fermentation using Tier 2 method

November 2022
2 h 15 m
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Sharing the "Nutrition and Food Systems: Pathways to sustainable and healthy diets" MOOC experience

November 2022
20 h
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Course 2: Engaging in Codex

November 2022
4 h 30 m
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Developing a learning agenda to support emergency and resilience programming

November 2022
2 h 30 m

Building resilient societies: the UN's joined-up approach

October 2022
2 h 30 m

Linkages between food security, nutrition and social protection: An introduction to basic concepts and principles

October 2022
1 h

The ISPA-FSN tool: Assessing social assistance programmes for better food security and nutrition

October 2022
1 h 30 m

Legal and policy considerations for sustainable small-scale fisheries

October 2022
3 h
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Transforming Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 10:00 - 11:30 Europe/Rome
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Major achievements for 2022

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24-hour Global Marathon for Sustainability 2021 - Food for Earth

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Major achievements for 2021

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24-hour Global Marathon for Sustainability - Food for Earth

To celebrate United Nations International Mother Earth Day

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E-learning methodologies and good practices

A guide for designing and delivering e-learning solutions from the FAO elearning Academy

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FAO elearning Academy

Achievements for 2020

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FAO elearning Academy

Major achievements 2019

Alignment with and contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals Framework, Agenda 2030

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Self-paced courses

The FAO elearning Academy offers multilingual self-paced elearning courses, accessible free of charge online and in downloadable format. The courses allow you to learn about a subject based on your individual needs and interests, and the format allows you to study at your own pace, anywhere and at any time.

Our design approach is learner-centred, collaborative, multiplatform and multilingual. Course design starts with a detailed target audience analysis, is based on realistic and measurable learning objectives and includes knowledge assessment tests. A final evaluation certifies the acquisition of competencies, by granting a digital badge.

A preliminary thorough multistakeholder and multidisciplinary collaborative learning needs assessment, involving field practitioners and target audience representatives, is conducted to design a comprehensive curriculum.

The curricula are based on  detailed analysis of target audience groups, including their roles, job functions and responsibilities and key job tasks, as well as the knowledge, skills and competencies required to improve performance and reach overall learning intervention objectives.

Each course has a clear purpose, realistic objectives that are measurable through knowledge tests and a final evaluation that certifies the acquisition of competencies through the digital badges system.

The FAO courses aim to give wide access to education worldwide, to geographically dispersed and marginalized individuals and to gender-biased communities.


International technical webinars

The FAO elearning Academy organizes and delivers international technical webinars, in close collaboration with the National Consortium for Agriculture, Food, Animal Health and the Environment (Agreenium), Future Food Institute and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).

Mobile learning

In certain learning contexts and settings, our courses are made available for learning on mobile devices (e.g. smartphones, tablets). Mobile learning experiences deliver content in small modular chunks and are particularly effective and appropriate when learners are in remote areas with poor internet connectivity, or if they need quick, just-in-time support.

Just tick the box “mobile” close to the search box to have a direct access to the mobile responsive elearning courses available.

Face to face capacity development interventions

The elearning Academy supports the technical divisions of the FAO and a number of partners in designing, developing and delivering face-to-face capacity development interventions that are aligned with FAO priority areas and the Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2030.

These learning interventions are designed to:

  • support member countries’ national policy environment, legal frameworks and decision-making processes;

  • document and capitalize on country experiences;

  • capture institutional memory;

  • gather and share lessons learned;

  • replicate in different settings;

  • follow a learner-centred approach;

  • place countries in the centre of their own capacity development process; and

  • use local expertise and traditional knowledge.


Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

The FAO elearning Academy organizes, supports and delivers free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) with a number of partners. They address various thematic areas that are aligned with the FAO strategic programme and the United Nations SDG framework.

MOOCs are designed in a modular manner, have a clear purpose and realistic objectives that are measurable through knowledge tests and a final evaluation that certifies the acquisition of competencies.

They aim to give access to education worldwide, are able to penetrate geographically dispersed and marginalized individuals and gender-biased communities.


Online tutored courses

The FAO elearning Academy organizes online tutored courses targeted at specific audiences. These modular interactive, instructor-led courses are based on practical activities, with a set of hands-on tasks designed around realistic scenarios.

Collaborative activities are another core element of these tutored courses. In fact, geographically dispersed participants engage in peer reviews and discussion groups. The tutor guides them throughout their learning experience to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing. These instructor-led courses are designed around specific competencies. Through experiential learning and hands-on activities, learners are guided in applying newly acquired competencies in a concrete project related to their profession.


University learning programmes

FAO has established several partnerships with academic institutions, universities and consortia of universities for the creation of specialized joint Master’s and Graduate Degree programmes. These are fully based on the FAO elearning courses and associated materials.

The FAO elearning Academy is collaborating with Mediterranean Universities Union (UNIMED), Future Food Institute (FFI), LUISS University, African Virtual University, Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), Open University of Catalonia, Association of Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean (UDUAL), University of Pretoria, La Sapienza University, Unitelma Sapienza and many others on the creation of University programmes.


Blended learning programmes

FAO blended learning programmes are always aligned with regional or national policy and/or legal frameworks that need to be implemented, or higher-level conventions or treaties to which a country needs to adhere.

The overall aim is to strengthen the capacities of targeted professionals and allow them to acquire specific competencies. This is to aid them in facilitating the implementation of policy and legal frameworks and in decision-making processes while addressing challenges at the local and regional levels.

The programmes provide a continuous learning opportunity over a period of four to six months, through a blended approach, laid out below.

  • Participants interact in an online workshop via a collaborative learning platform, learning basic concepts and fundamentals. This initiates a participatory analysis of the country or regional context. In the online component, there is the support of a tutor to guide participants in their learning experience. They are encouraged to use social learning – like blogs, wikis and discussion groups – to interact with others and complete assignments. Performance measurement criteria and assignments are included to assess participants’ performance and ensure they meet the prerequisites needed to attend the face-to-face workshop.

  • Based on the performance evaluation, successful participants attend a face-to-face workshop. The face-to-face workshop is designed according to the results of the online activities. The overall objective is to enable participants to apply the competencies acquired and jointly develop realistic action plans at the national or regional level.

  • A final online mentoring phase completes the blended learning programme. In the three- to six-month mentoring period, participants are encouraged to apply learned skills and share the challenges, doubts and issues they are facing at the country level with the other geographically dispersed participants. This is referred to as peer-to-peer support. The tutor also provides mentoring, guidance and advice. Therefore, in this phase, participants receive support for the implementation of the action plans designed in the face-to-face workshop and keep up collaboration and dialogue with others in the programme.


Self-paced coursesInternational technical webinarsMobile learning Face to face capacity development interventionsMassive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)Online tutored coursesUniversity learning programmesBlended learning programmes
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