Cristina Petracchi, FAO eLearning Team Leader - Partnerships and South-South Cooperation Division

The FAO eLearning Center provides online courses on topics related to food security, agriculture, nutrition, and sustainable development. It offers over 500,000 learners a broad range of free courses anytime, anywhere. Courses cover issues like food insecurity, food losses, climate change, natural resource management, and gender inequalities. The Center works with universities, UN agencies, and NGOs to develop blended and online learning programs. Its goal is to transfer skills and knowledge on issues important to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Education

FAO ⓔlearning Center
Cristina Petracchi
FAO eLearning Team Leader
Partnerships and South-South Cooperation Division (DPS)
UNIMED General Assembly 2018, Venice 25th October 2018

Challenges to which humanity is confronted
• Food Insecurity
• Food Losses and Food Waste
• Food Systems inclusive, integrated,
performant and for enhanced nutrition
• Climat Change, extreme weather events
and natural disasters
• Governance of Tenure and Management
of Natural Resources
• Gender inequalities and discrimination
(access to food, education, financial
resources, services,
decision making)

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Education
for all
Anytime
Anywhere
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charge
Transfer of
skills and
competences
Multilingual
500,000
learners
throughout
the world
Public
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All SDGs and
SDG 4
www.fao.org/elearning

A broad offering of a unique series of courses
Responsible
Governance of Tenure
Gender M&E and Impact
Assessment
Climate Change
Food and Nutrition
Security
Trade, Markets &
Investments
Social Analysis
Child
Labour
Nutrition and Food
Systems
Communication
Sustainable
Development Goal
Indicators
Information
Management &
Knowledge Sharing

A broad offering of a unique series of courses
Responsible
Investment in Agriculture &
and Food Systems
Rural Employment,
Decent Work and
Migration
Capacity
Development
Right to food
Social Protection and
Resilience Agricultural Statistics
Crop Improvement
Geospatial data for
Land Monitoring
Animal Production
and Health
Humanitarian
coordination
Food safety

UN and Development
Agencies
Uptake, impact and scaling up
Universities and
Academic Institutions
UNICEF
UNITAR
UNHCR
WFP
EU
COMESA
CILSS
GIZ
UNIMED, CRUI, PRIMA
LUISS University
IGNOU, AIU, AVU
COL, RUFORUM
Open University of
Catalonia, UDUAL
University of Pretoria
Anhalt University
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APC
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INIT
UNU
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UN-OCHA
IAEA
UNDP
NEPAD
IDLO
IICA
E-learning content
NGOs and CSOs
Supporting staff
development
Enriching capacity
development activities
Enhancing University
Curricula

FAO Diversified Delivery Methods and Pedagogical Models
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Learning
Programmes
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Tutored Courses
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Food Security Right to Food
Impact
Assessment
Project
Joint UOC/FAO Master’s Degree Food Security
and Impact Assessment 60 ECTS
15 ECTS
4 months
15 ECTS
4 months
15 ECTS
4 months
15 ECTS
4 months
Post Graduate Degree 30 ECTS Credits
Example of UOC/FAO partnership

• Improving Nutrition through Agriculture and Food
Systems
• Enhancing participation in CODEX activities
• Trade, Food Security and Nutrition
• The Principles for Responsible Investment in
Agriculture and Food Systems
• Pesticide management and child labour prevention
• Trade in Agriculture Agreements
Parnership LUISS University and FAO
LUISS Master’s in Food Law

This document discusses strategies for reducing poverty and malnutrition among vulnerable groups. It makes three key points: 1) Poverty and malnutrition are intrinsically linked, as extreme poverty determines limited access to income, health services, and infrastructure. The poorest groups are often the last to benefit from universal policies. 2) Agriculture and food systems can play an important role in accelerating poverty reduction, but need to be designed with the poor in mind. Targeting specific actions at the poor is more expensive but necessary to ensure they are not left behind. 3) Reaching the extreme poor requires comprehensive approaches, including social assistance programs, livelihood support, and ensuring agricultural policies promote poverty reduction and decent work opportunities.

This document summarizes lessons learned from resilience-building and nutrition programs implemented in Ethiopia, Niger, northern Kenya, and other food-insecure regions. It finds that cash transfers and seasonal safety nets alone were insufficient, and longer-term, multisectoral interventions are needed to build communities' ability to withstand shocks. Successful approaches included integrated interventions across agriculture, water and sanitation, livelihoods, and nutrition; strengthening government response capacity; and coordinating humanitarian and development actors. The document also provides recommendations for international donors, policymakers, and practitioners to adopt resilience-building approaches.

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The document outlines findings from Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) and key lessons that can inform social protection programs. The PSNP aimed to address food insecurity and promote development. It provided predictable multi-year support to nearly 8 million people through public works projects, direct support, and other initiatives. Evaluations found the PSNP reduced food gaps and increased investments in areas like fertilizer and soil conservation. Key lessons included the importance of government ownership, integration with broader development goals, coordination among stakeholders, targeting approaches, monitoring and evaluation, and opportunities for ongoing learning and adjustment of programs.

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Changing patterns of malnutrition in Ethiopia and lessons learned. Stunting, wasting, and underweight rates in children under 5 have declined significantly from 2000 to 2014 due to decisive government commitment and leadership. Key factors contributing to improvements include strengthened primary health care and nutrition-specific interventions, expanded access to agriculture and education, and multi-sectoral nutrition policies integrated across health, agriculture, education, industry, and social protection sectors. Remaining challenges include continuing to address equity and quality, strengthening nutrition-sensitive actions and information systems, and managing the emerging issues of overweight and obesity.

Social Protection and Its Impact on Food and Nutrition Security

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This document summarizes learnings from missions by GDC to Ethiopia, Cambodia, and Malawi on how social protection programs can benefit food and nutrition security. Key findings include: 1) Social protection programs can impact food access and other determinants of nutrition if designed sensitively; 2) They can form the cornerstone of national food and nutrition policies; 3) They provide an alternative to recurrent emergency aid if made shock-responsive. The document outlines options for strengthening programs in each country, such as improving cross-sectoral cooperation in Ethiopia's PSNP or increasing the nutritional impact of Malawi's social cash transfer program.

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This document discusses financing gendered food systems. It notes that women play key roles throughout food value chains but face unique constraints shaped by structural inequalities in food systems. To address this, the document outlines several intervention considerations for focusing financing on gender, including desired outcomes, target populations, and instruments. It recommends investing in programs for both women consumers and women producers to promote equal gender norms, leadership training, and women's access to resources. The document also discusses channeling public and private funding in gender-focused ways through expenditures, programs, development aid, and impact investment funds. Financing food systems with a gender focus, the document concludes, has great potential to empower women and strengthen food security.

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The EAT Lancet Publication: Implications for Nutrition Health and Planet

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

The document discusses a publication by the EAT-Lancet Commission that aimed to define global scientific targets for healthy diets from sustainable food systems. It established a reference diet of 2500 calories per day consisting of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, plant proteins, unsaturated fats, and limited red meat and sugar. Current diets vary widely from this target. The commission also set planetary boundaries related to greenhouse gas emissions, land and water use, and nutrient flows to define a safe operating space for food production. Global modeling was used to identify combinations of measures needed to meet dietary targets sustainably by 2050, such as shifting diets, reducing food waste, and improving agricultural practices.

Global Nutrition Report 2016: From Promise to Impact

The document provides an overview and key findings from the 2016 Global Nutrition Report. It begins with an introduction to the report and what's new in 2016, including a shift to focusing on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The main section outlines the key findings, which show that global targets for nutrition are not on track to be met and that more funding and better allocation of resources is needed. It calls for political commitment to end all forms of malnutrition, increased and better invested funding, tackling malnutrition in all its forms, and taking proven and new actions to support nutrition. The document concludes by providing three things readers can do to help advance progress on nutrition.

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The document discusses building dairy value chains in Afghanistan to improve nutrition. It describes an intervention by Afghanaid from 2013-2016 that provided technical training, inputs, and business skills to women dairy producers and established cooperatives. This aimed to empower women economically and increase their leadership roles. The intervention sought to assess its impacts on participating households' nutrition and the wider population's dairy consumption, availability, and affordability. The value chain was found to increase milk volumes but faced challenges around infrastructure, quality management, and competition from imports that require further investment and support to intermediaries for coordination.

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The IFAD Pacific Islands Partnership Strategy has two strategic objectives: (i) promoting production, consumption, and import substitution of locally grown and indigenous foods in environmentally sustainable ways, and (ii) increasing farm and non-farm income and employment opportunities. It focuses on isolated areas facing hardship, prioritizing women, youth, and disadvantaged communities. IFAD's programs in the Pacific engage in areas like community development, social and economic empowerment, food and nutrition security, high-value niche markets, and climate change adaptation. Lessons learned indicate that communities can find solutions when provided with adequate support, building on traditional knowledge through local institutions is effective, and partnerships are instrumental to designing appropriate interventions.

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International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

This document discusses veterinary communication for development. It covers several topics: 1. The global context of veterinary science where hundreds of millions rely on livestock for their livelihoods. Livestock contribute significantly to agricultural GDP in developing countries. 2. A project in Vietnam that created a blueprint for sustainable smallholder pig production, using participatory approaches like questionnaires with farmers. 3. The use of participatory video where farmers created their own film about farming practices to teach each other, and participatory photography to assess long-term impacts of projects.

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Poverty is one of the biggest obstacles to human development and economic growth. Although progress has been made in reducing the global number of the poor, about 767 million people continue to live in extreme poverty and inequalities are still pervasive. Most of them live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. With the adoption of the Agenda 2030, countries have renewed their commitment to fight against poverty and hunger. As part of its mandate, FAO supports countries to reduce rural poverty by ensuring that processes of structural and rural transformation are pro-poor and inclusive, to make sure that no one is left behind. In helping countries in their efforts to eradicate poverty and hunger FAO’s multi-sectoral approach aims to address the social, economic and daily challenges that poor rural people face. This includes increasing access to natural resources and other assets for the rural poor, creating decent employment in agriculture and the rural economy, building strong social protection systems, strengthening rural institutions and empowering the rural poor to benefit from the development process.

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This white paper examines Mediterranean food consumption patterns and their impacts on diet, the environment, society, and health. It aims to stimulate discussion around improving food system sustainability and achieving food and nutrition security in the Mediterranean region. The paper notes a decline in adherence to the Mediterranean diet despite its documented health and environmental benefits. It argues that fundamental changes are needed across the entire food system to ensure sustainable food consumption patterns, minimize pressure on natural resources, and reduce food losses. The paper calls for urgent steps to assess current consumption patterns and identify research and policies to promote more sustainable diets in the Mediterranean region.

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This white paper examines Mediterranean food consumption patterns and their relationship to diet, the environment, society, the economy, and health. It was produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies. The document outlines objectives to analyze problems in these areas and identify potential indicators to assess sustainability. It proposes a conceptual framework and outlines key research needs and policy considerations to promote more sustainable Mediterranean food systems.

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