Agrifood systems are undergoing a transformation with the aim to provide safer, more affordable, and healthier diets for all, produced in a sustainable manner while delivering just and equitable livelihoods: a key to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, this transformation needs to be executed in the global context of major challenges facing the food and agriculture sectors, with drivers such as climate change, population growth, urbanization, and natural resources depletion compounding these challenges.
Food safety is a keystone to agrifood systems and all food safety actors need to keep pace with the ongoing transformation while preparing to navigate the potential threats, disruptions, and challenges that may arise. Foresight in food safety facilitates the proactive identification of drivers and related trends, both within and outside agrifood systems, that have implications for food safety and therefore also for consumer health, the national economy, and international trade. Early identification and evaluation of drivers and trends promote strategic planning and preparedness to take advantage of emerging opportunities and address challenges in food safety.
In this publication, the FAO Food Safety Foresight programme provides an overview of the major global drivers and trends by describing their implications for food safety in particular and for agrifood systems by extrapolation. The various drivers and trends reported include climate change, changing consumer behaviour and preferences, new food sources and production systems, technological advances, microbiome, circular economy, food fraud, among others. The intended audience for this publication is broad – from the policymakers, academia, food business operators, private sector, to all of us, the consumers.
A joint initiative of Purpose and the United Nations, Verified is a crisis communications model designed to adeptly respond to intersecting crises in an era of prolific mis- and disinformation. Heavily based on behavioral science insights, it cuts through the noise around global crises and deliver critical fact-based advice and information.
Collate and estimate all-cause and cause specific mortality and
morbidity for all member states. Key product for tracking global
health trends and providing evidence for resource allocation.
The Reference Death Archive is a global repository of deaths with matched pathology-based biomarkers, WHO verbal autopsy data, and independently assigned reference causes of death, designed to provide high-quality evidence to improve, validate, and standardize verbal autopsy methods and algorithms for cause of death assertion.
The Data For Now initiative (Data4Now), aims to develop countries’ capacities to deliver the information needed by local and national policy and decision makers to design effective development strategies and policy programmes to achieve the 2030 Agenda and make a positive difference in people’s lives. To this end, it supports members of the National Statistical Systems in participating countries to leverage innovative sources, technologies, methods and partnerships for the streamlined production and dissemination of better, more timely and disaggregated data for sustainable development. In this context, it also supports effective collaboration between members of the National Statistical System, local, national, and global partners from intergovernmental organizations, academia, civil society, and the private sector. Visit our website for more information: https://unstats.un.org/UNSDWebsite/capacity-development/data-for-now/
A cutting-edge immersive museum at the intersection of art, technology, and impact on a mission to imagine and build a positive future. We inspire hope for the future through enchanting immersive experiences, technological innovation, and socially engaged discussion. Aligned with the United Nations 2030 agenda, we foster imaginative solutions that drive real-world change. We center the imaginations of historically marginalized communities, fostering a vibrant space for intercultural exchange and world-class arts entertainment.
The Digital Government Academy equips civil servants with the skills and knowledge needed to prototype, implement, operate and expand the use of user-centric digital government systems.
The UNDRR and WMO have developed a Global Observatory for EWS Financial Tracking to support the UN Secretary-General’s Early Warnings for All (EW4All) initiative. This tool systematically tracks investments in Early Warning Systems (EWS) using a standardized taxonomy, transforming how stakeholders manage, visualize, and analyze data.
Leadership, Orientation and Guidance for Operational Support (LOGOS) is a flagship programme that equips the next generation of field leaders, particularly prospective Chiefs/Directors of Mission Support (C/DMS), to lead effectively in complex, field-based environments.
Public space with digital tools for data consultation and analysis, online learning and training, and evidence-based decision-making on development issues.
“Transformative Spaces” is a collective initiative across UN partners whose goal is to convene “safe and inclusive spaces for connection, dialogue, co-creation and transformation” and amplify these across different workspaces and networks of engagement and dialogue.
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