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Transforming food systems and empowering youth in Africa
Since 2014, the Global Environment Facility has supported countries to tackle environmental challenges in food systems and promote transformational change toward sustainability and resilience. The Africa region has been a major focus for these investments. Youth engagement has been a consistent priority for food systems investments in the region, with thousands of young people trained, employed, and supported through entrepreneurship, agroforestry, and nature-based enterprises.
Advancing the Integrated Approach for Food Security and Resilient Food Systems
In June 2015, as a key component to reforms during its sixth replenishment cycle (GEF-6), the Global Environment Facility Council approved an Integrated Approach Pilot (IAP) program on Fostering Sustainability and Resilience for Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa. The integrated approach to programming resources supports recipient countries as they tackle the drivers of environmental degradation. This approach seeks to address various global environmental challenges in line with the targets and goals of the multilateral environmental agreements that the GEF serves.
FARM+ program to pave way for sustainable, climate-resilient agriculture in 8 countries
Funded by the Global Environment Facility and led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), FARM+ is the second phase of the Financing Agrochemical Reduction and Management (FARM) program and will be implemented by the African Development Bank Group, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, UNDP, UN Environment Programme, and the UN Industrial Development Organization in very close coordination with FARM, which is led by UNEP and the Global Green Knowledge Platform (GGKP).
New $282 million GEF program targets climate and environment action through agriculture and food systems
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) launched a new program, aimed at strengthening efforts to transform global agrifood systems – from farm to table - so that they are sustainable, nature positive, resilient, inclusive, and pollution-free.
New initiative aims to curb the toxic impacts of agriculture
The governments of Ecuador, India, Kenya, Lao PDR, Philippines, Uruguay, and Viet Nam have come together to launch a $379 million initiative to combat pollution from the use of pesticides and plastics in agriculture.