SEED FUNDING JOINT PROGRAMMES
Rwanda
Resilient Food Systems: Enhanced Value Chain and Post Harvest Management
PROJECT TITLE | Resilient Food Systems: Enhanced Value Chain and Post Harvest Management |
| Context | Food systems transformation is embedded in several national policies in Rwanda, including the National Transformation Strategy, the Strategic Plan for Agriculture Transformation, the National Environment and Climate Change Policy. In 2021, Rwanda developed its National Pathway, which highlights four priority areas for the country towards 2030: ensuring food security and nutrition for all, while increasing demand for healthy diets; enhancing the environmental sustainability of food systems; improving livelihoods for farmers and all workers in food systems while building resilience to shocks; promoting inclusion of women and youth in food systems, including through enhanced financial opportunities. |
| PUNOs | FAO, WFP, IFAD |
| Contribution to SDGs | SDG 1 No Poverty; SDG 2 Zero Hunger; SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth; SDG 13 Climate Action |
| Contribution to other SDG transitions | Decent Jobs and Universal Social Protection; Energy Access and Affordability |
| Duration | July 2024 – June 2025 |
| Expected financial leverage | $ 3,070,000 |
| Alignment with SG Call to Action | Policy integration; Food systems governance; Research, data, technology and innovation; Inclusive and participatory design; Private sector engagement |
| Outcomes | The JP leverages on improved post-harvest management as a strategic approach to simultaneously reduce food loss, improve incomes, and boost food availability. The JP promotes the economic integration of youth-led MSMEs and builds linkages with partners and initiatives focused on nutrition and food security to connect the dots between food production, processing and consumption. |
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Empowering UN teams to transform food systems
The Food Systems Thinking Guide for UN Resident Coordinators and UN Country Teams is now available online. Developed under the UN Food Systems Task Force, this guide offers a digital tool with practical examples to advance food systems transformation through a systems approach. The guide aims at supporting UN coordination on food systems transformation efforts at country level and integrating food systems into strategic planning, advocacy and policy work.
Given its potential impact on agriculture, health, economies and the environment, food systems transformation is one of the key transitions (or transformative entry points) that can have catalytic and multiplier effects across the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Harnessing the transformative potential of sustainable food systems is essential to achieving food security and nutrition for present and future generations, while concurrently addressing critical global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity and natural resource degradation, rural poverty and economic shocks. Transforming food systems, therefore, requires a systems approach that connects components and outcomes of agrifood systems and interrelated systems to achieve sustained change across multiple sustainability dimensions, transforming the way people interact with each other and with the planet.
This guide was created as a concerted effort of the UN Food Systems Task Force’s Working Group on Supporting UN Country Team Coordination and Joint Programming and reflects inputs from 13 UN agencies and bodies, highlighting the power of collaboration.
UN Resident Coordinators and UN Country Teams are encouraged to pilot the food systems thinking guide in their day-to-day work on food systems transformation and provide feedback through this survey to ensure it evolves effectively to meet their needs. This first release of the thinking guide is intended as a working draft that will be piloted in 2025, with future updates based on feedback gathered from the experiences at country level.
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