Projects / Programs / Initiatives

Expert Panel / Task Force Member / Technical Adviser:

  • Scientific and Technical Advisor Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) (click here)
  • Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Task Force “Capacity Building” (click here)
  • United Nations Decade for Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) Task Force Good Practices and Capacity Development (click here)
  • International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources (ITPGR) for a Capacity Development Strategy 2022-2025 (click here)
  • Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP) Capacity Development Task Force (click here)
  • United Nations Working Group on Capacity Development (click here)

Projects / Programs / Initiatives 

Global Environmental Facility (GEF): 

Focus:

  • GEF-7 (FAO as implementing partner) Impact Programme “Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration (FOLUR)”, USD 307 million leveraging USD 2 billion on co-financing in 27 countries (click here) (FAO as implementing partner)
  • GEF-8 Food Systems Integrated Programme (FSIP), 32 countries (click here (FAO as lead agency)
  • GEF-7 Impact Programme “Dryland Sustainable Landscapes (DSL)”, USD 104 Million, 11 countries  (click here) (FAO as lead agency)

Ongoing:

  • GEF-7 ISLANDs – “Implementing Sustainable Low and Non-Chemical Development in Small Island Developing States”, 29 countries, USD 61 million (click here)
  • GEF-6 Green-AG India- “Transforming Indian Agriculture for Global Conservation Benefits in India”, USD 30 million (click here)
  • GEF-6 “Integrating Climate Resilience into Agricultural and Pastoral Production in Uganda through a Farmer / Agropastoralist Field School Approach”, USD 6.5 million (click here)
  • GEF-6 CAWA – “Climate Adaptation in Wetland Areas in Lao PDR”, USD 6 million (click here)
  • GEF-6 FishAdapt Myanmar –  “Strenghtening the Adaptive Capacity and Resilience of Fisheries and Aquaculture dependent Livelihood in Myanmar”, USD 6 million (click here)
  • GEF-6 CACILM II – “Integrated natural resources management in drought-prone and salt-affected agricultural production landscapes in Central Asia and Turkey”, 5 countries, USD 10 million (click here)

Green Climate Fund (GCF):

  • GCF Readiness in Cameroon (coming soon)
  • GCF Readiness in Kyrgyz Republic, Macedonia, Serbia (click here)
  • GCF Project “Carbon Sequestration in Rangelands and Forests Kyrgyz Republic (click here)
  • GCF Project “Nexus Biodiversity – Climate Change – Nutrition” in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in Samoa and Tonga (upcoming)
  • GCF Project Phillipines (upcoming)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO):

  • FAO and the GEF – Partnering for Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment (click here) 
  • Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems – CDAIS – (click here)
  • Agroecology – TAPE Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (click here) 
  • Sustainable Food and Agriculture SFA (click here)
  • Transforming Food and Agriculture to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (click here) 
  • Integrated Landscape Management (click here) 
  • Landscapes for Life – Approaches to landscape management for sustainable food and agriculture (click here)
  • Satoyama Initiative – Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes – SEPLs (click here)
  • FAO and the GCF (click here)
  • Climate Smart Agriculture (click here)
  • Greening the Blue – Environmental Champions in the United Nations System (click here)
  • FAO Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Corporate Strategy (click here)
  • FAO Climate Change portfolio and Corporate Strategy (click here)
  • FAO Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services portfolio (click here) and Corporate Strategy (click here)
  • Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Forest and Fisheries in the Context of National Food Security – VGGT (click here)

Completed Initiatives, Projects and Programmes: 

  • GEF-6 The Transboundary Agro-ecosystem Management Project for the Kagera River Basin in Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, (click here)
  • Committee of Food Security – High-Level Panel of Experts – Multi-Stakeholder Processes, Partnerships and Platforms to Finance and Improve Food Security and Nutrition in the Framework of the 2030 Agenda (click here)
  • Incentives fo Ecosystem Services (click here)
  • Dare to Understand and Measure (DATUM) Climate Smart Agriculture (click here)
  • Nature-based Solutions for Agricultural Water Management and Food Security (click here)
  • Integrate Agriculture into National Adaptation Plans for Climate Change Action (click here)
  • Livelihoods and Food Security Programme (LFSP) Zimbabwe (click here) 
  • Information and Communication Technologies for Development – ICT4D (click here)
  • Sport for Development and Peace (click here)
  • Multi-Stakeholder Diplomacy – MSD (click here)