Recommendations for "Infrastructure (116 results)"
Reduce food loss and waste including by supporting the improvement of infrastructure and cold chain development, through consumer education, the dissemination of best practices, information, capacity development, and the transfer of technology as mutually agreed, including for smallholders and pastoralists, considering the most appropriate local technologies.
2016
Promote policies that promote climate change mitigation and adaptation in agriculture, which are especially useful for helping smallholders manage risks while improving productivity. Investments in mitigation include helping farmers improve their energy efficiency and manage their land in ways that increase carbon storage. Investments in adaptation could focus on helping farmers adjust their planting dates as well as on developing and ensuring public provision of high-yielding crop varieties and technologies that are adapted to changing precipitation patterns and temperatures.
2013
Increase efforts to examine and promote ICTs, such as mobile phones and Internet kiosks, that can boost access to affordable payment, savings, and credit services for small-holders. Such financial products can be bundled with other development services, such as capacity-building and extension services.
2013
Strategically position the public spending portfolio to offer a short-term cushion for coping with livelihood shocks as well as long-term productivity-enhancing or exit opportunities for smallholders to escape poverty and food insecurity.
2013
National research systems need to prioritize the development of location-specific and smallholder-friendly technological innovations across the whole agricultural value chain.
2013
Innovation in insurance schemes need to be accompanied by investment in infrastructure (such as weather stations for weather-based indexes) and capacity building of farmers and providers.
2013
Public investments should be directed toward providing essential public goods that have the highest economic and social returns, including rural infrastructure (especially rural roads) and agricultural research and development.
2013
Strengthen market organization by analyzing the overall quality and efficiency of existing infrastructure and improving national road networks, as well as transport and market infrastructure, which are critical in getting produce from the farm gate to markets at reasonable costs, promoting context-specific policies.
2020
Clean and sufficient drinking water, proper sanitation, drains for wastewater and proper management of solid waste are key interventions in deprived areas to aide against infectious diseases and malnourishment.
2020
Public investment in demand-driven research and extension should be complemented by investment in rural electrification programmes, irrigation infrastructure and increased mechanization to further raise productivity.
2020
Access to quality internet in terms of bandwidth and better speed is crucial for international trade. There is a need to focus on improving the quality of digital infrastructure in the developing world, where bandwidth speed can be diverse across countries and subscriptions.
2020
Trade policies that foster open markets should be complemented by measures that improve the capacity to compete in modern global value chains. These include investments in infrastructure, effective regulation and, most importantly, measures targeting the upgrade of skills for farmers and workers.
2020
Government policies are crucial to underpinning market participation. They should target rural areas with measures to improve health and education services, upgrade infrastructure and foster labour markets, supporting an enabling environment that is conducive to business.
2020
The impact of increased GVC participation is likely to vary depending on policies that promote the mobility of production factors, especially labour, and on conditions that allow economic activity to expand, such as investments in human capital through better skills, improved infrastructure and effective regulation.
2020
At the country level, well-established legislation, institutional structures, policies and plans can create an enabling environment to limit the impact of climate-related disasters and climate variability and build climate resilience. A mix of different tools – including regulation, fiscal instruments, investments in research and knowledge dissemination, support for market accessibility, improvements in infrastructure, and social protection – is seen as being more effective and sustainable in creating a pathway for climate resilience than a single intervention.
2018
Enhance the fairness, transparency, efficiency, and functioning of markets, in particular taking into account the interests of smallholders, improving related infrastructure, and increasing the resilience of agriculture and food systems.
2014
Manage and reduce risks to public health across agriculture and food systems, including strengthening science based strategies and programmes for the control of food safety, with supporting infrastructure and resources.
2014
Addressing the needs and constraints of smallholders – women and men – in a gender sensitive manner in policies, laws and regulations, and strategies to address capacity development through improved access to inputs, advisory and financial services including insurance, education, extension, training, infrastructure and access to markets.
2014
Improve access to education, training and capacity development for small and medium enterprises, cooperatives, associations, and farmer and producer organizations to enable them to enter into agreements and engage with other market actors.
2014
Increase resilient infrastructure, land and forests. Promote the development and rehabilitation of agricultural infrastructure, and managing land, soils, biodiversity, water and forests in order to strengthen resilience to climate change and natural disasters and maintain the agricultural production potential.
2016
Promote infrastructure, better services and the use of context-adapted technologies that will free up women’s time, including irrigation, multiple-use water systems, increased energy access and innovative and sustainable agricultural production and processing technologies.
2016
Improve handling, storage, processing and preservation to enhance value chain efficiency and resilience, reduce post-harvest losses, food loss and waste and ensure food safety to increase the availability, accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods.
2021
Facilitate ongoing international efforts to improve trade rules affecting agriculture, noting that measures inconsistent with international rules and obligations may undermine the efficient functioning of FVCs, calling on all countries to respect their obligations in this area.
2019
Countries’ own farm structure, hard and soft infrastructure in production, processing and distribution, expected roles played by producer’s organization and consumers’ buying behavior need to be taken into account in order to achieve effective and sustainable growth of the agro-food sector.
2019
Strengthen the infrastructure needed for urban-rural integrated development and agricultural connectivity.
2018
The rapid and constant growth of ICTs and their applications in agriculture contribute to agricultural productivity and profitability, food security and nutrition and to promote sustainable agriculture. It is important to explore their potential opportunities and impacts, particularly on women and small and family holders, addressing scientific and technological issues, as well as institutional, commercial and trade-related aspects.
2018
Revitalize the rural economy, harmonize urban and rural development, catalyze agricultural growth with industrialization and urbanization, improve and maintain rural infrastructure, and enhance both equal exchange and balanced allocation of production factors in urban and rural areas, giving due attention to food security in cities.
2016
Encourage private sector and other stakeholders to engage in investment dialogue and exchanges, broaden channels for agricultural investment and financing, and promote agricultural investment facilitation.
2016
Pursue investments in agricultural infrastructure and agricultural research and extension, to improve water management, land governance and strengthening farmer skills and knowledge.
2016
Support for responsible investment also requires an enabling environment including infrastructure and policies conducive to well-functioning markets, an open and rules based multilateral trading system, inclusive financial institutions, secure tenure of land, social protection, the management of risk and measures to limit the adverse impacts of excessive price volatility.
2015
Sharing country experiences in reducing food loss and waste, including through policy incentives, infrastructure investments, market innovations, consumer education, recovery and redistribution of otherwise lost or wasted food for people to eat, business incentives and private sector investments, will also facilitate global efforts to tackle this issue.
2015
Promote national enabling environments for investment including infrastructure and policies conducive to well-functioning markets, the integration of smallholders and women into those markets, inclusive financing institutions, secure tenure of land, social protection, the management of risk and measures to limit the adverse impacts of excessive price volatility.
2015
Improve public investment in infrastructure for markets, storage and other necessary food system components to support deconcentration of production and distribution networks and bring more diversity for resilience.
2020
Reduce the prevalence of childhood undernutrition by addressing its direct (food insecurity) and indirect causes (hygiene, clean water, civil strife, unsafe food supply, etc.).
2020
Encourage investment in rural infrastructure development, agricultural services and access to markets, in order to mitigate rural to urban migration.
2020
Improved roads, ports and market infrastructure need to be coupled with expanded private-sector-driven access to mobile connectivity.
2019
Catalyze investments that strengthen food supply links so that smallholders have greater market access and food transporters, distributors, processors, and retailers can thrive.
2020
Interventions provided directly to farmers, including farm inputs, R&D, improved livestock feed, and irrigation infrastructure.
2020
Improve access to infrastructure and markets
2019
Introduce energy-efficient, low-carbon cold chains
2019
Reengineer manufacturing processes during industrial or domestic processing and/or packaging to reduce food loss and waste
2019
Providing the conditions necessary to scale local successes into large-scale, transformative initiatives. This includes fostering the underlying social and economic conditions and institutions, particularly those relating to stakeholder engagement, land tenure, gender equality, and the availability of sustained investment and infrastructure.
2017
Reinvigorate investment in rural infrastructure, education, training, technology, knowledge transfer and payments of environmental services.
2016
Enable midstream SMEs to raise agricultural productivity. In addition to midstream SMEs’ role in supporting smallholders in gaining access to quality inputs and good agricultural practices, downstream investments in processing and packaging facilities, transport logistics and cold-chain management help to guarantee continual production and consistent product quality. SMEs are therefore considered key multipliers for investment in domestic and regional markets.
2021
Ensure youth have access to basic infrastructure and services (sanitation, formal and informal education, health services, infrastructure, energy, information and communication technology and broadband access, extension services) in the rural-urban continuum to guarantee good standards of living for themselves and their children.
2021
Incentivize the establishment and functioning of cooperatives and other organizations to facilitate young farmers’ access to productive assets such as tools, machinery, farming and fishing equipment, storage and cooling facilities, processing and post-harvest equipment, and new, adaptable technologies.
2021
Improve shared public infrastructure (irrigation, processing and packaging facilities, food safety measures, physical and virtual market spaces, supportive zoning and regulation, roads that link urban and rural markets, and start-up funds) for informal, newly emerging and alternative markets that promote short food supply chains to improve income and lower barriers to entry for youth producers, entrepreneurs and traders.
2021
Invest in digital infrastructure and complementary nondigital infrastructure in rural and remote areas to ensure rural connectivity; digitize the activities of public agricultural bodies; and build the digital skills of public sector workers to support change.
2021
Ensure youth have access to basic infrastructure and services (sanitation, formal and informal education, health services, infrastructure, energy, information and communication technology and broadband access, extension services) in the rural-urban continuum to guarantee good standards of living for themselves and their children.
2021
Incentivize the establishment and functioning of cooperatives and other organizations to facilitate young farmers’ access to productive assets such as tools, machinery, farming and fishing equipment, storage and cooling facilities, processing and post-harvest equipment, and new, adaptable technologies.
2021
Improve shared public infrastructure (irrigation, processing and packaging facilities, food safety measures, physical and virtual market spaces, supportive zoning and regulation, roads that link urban and rural markets, and start-up funds) for informal, newly emerging and alternative markets that promote short food supply chains to improve income and lower barriers to entry for youth producers, entrepreneurs and traders.
2021
Ensure youth have access to basic infrastructure and services (sanitation, formal and informal education, health services, infrastructure, energy, information and communication technology and broadband access, extension services) in the rural-urban continuum to guarantee good standards of living for themselves and their children.
2021
Incentivize the establishment and functioning of cooperatives and other organizations to facilitate young farmers’ access to productive assets such as tools, machinery, farming and fishing equipment, storage and cooling facilities, processing and post-harvest equipment, and new, adaptable technologies.
2021
Improve shared public infrastructure (irrigation, processing and packaging facilities, food safety measures, physical and virtual market spaces, supportive zoning and regulation, roads that link urban and rural markets, and start-up funds) for informal, newly emerging and alternative markets that promote short food supply chains to improve income and lower barriers to entry for youth producers, entrepreneurs and traders.
2021
Support the development of all forms of necessary infrastructure, particularly in poorer and marginal areas, to improve the economic conditions and competitiveness of the agriculture and food sectors in those areas.
2022
Catalyse the investment in physical infrastructure needed for a viable MSME sector, such as roads, electrical grids, and internet and mobile phone infrastructure, with a focus on areas with high levels of rural poverty and inequality.
2022
Science-intensive and promising opportunities such as scaling up sustainable cold chain technology to make perishable foods (especially vegetables and fruits; potatoes) more available and affordable and at the same time reducing food loss and waste must be pursued, along with complementary investments in infrastructure to reduce transportation and other related costs and thereby reduce food prices.
2021
Invest in human capital and in the needed infrastructures to ensure the sustainability of data processing and analytic capacity.
2022
Investments along value chains for efficient and safe storage and transport of food crops and products, including low-emissions cold chains for perishable products and other measures to prevent spoilage and safety hazards, can improve access to healthy diets and reduce food waste and loss.
2022
Climate-positive food systems transformation will require development of context-appropriate institutions and in “soft” infrastructure inclusive of rural and urban food system actors, including equal access to digital climate services, innovative insurance tools, advisory services and actionable information, and financial services to support increased productivity and sustainability.
2022
Policy incentives are necessary to encourage shops to stock and sell greater amounts of fresh and minimally processed foods, for instance, by improving their cold storage facilities.
2023
For street foods, important food safety actions include ensuring a supply of water of acceptable quality for food preparation, clean places for preparation and consumption of food, sanitary facilities for workers in food outlets, training for street vendors and consumer education. Interventions at national and local government levels are also required to ensure nutritional quality for street foods in each local situation.
2023
Better linkages between producers, agro-industrial processors, agricultural and non-agricultural services, and other downstream segments of the agrifood value chain could provide more opportunities for SME development and, from a spatial perspective, could turn small and intermediate cities and towns (SICTs) into crucial “food exchange” nodes.
2023
Building rural infrastructure, including quality rural and feeder roads to connect remote farms and enterprises to main road networks, is essential for unlocking the productive potential of small and intermediate cities and towns (SICTs) and their catchment areas.
2023
Public investments (in addition to roads) to support linkages between (mainly small) farms and SMEs could include warehousing, cold storage, dependable electrification, access to digital tools and water supply.
2023
In order to attract private sector investment, public investments need to be more targeted and part of more comprehensive national strategies for infrastructure development. For example, building “last-mile” infrastructure and logistics that enable delivery from a distribution centre or facility to the end user, opens up possibilities for producers to reach bigger markets and, in the process, creates conditions that foster agribusiness development.
2023
In general, investments in connectivity between locations and components of agrifood systems in small and intermediate cities and towns (SICTs) have spurred substantial development of and investments by SMEs and the creation of spontaneous clusters of wholesale and logistics SMEs. Such clusters, in turn, induce farmers to increase their crop variety and to use more inputs.
2023
Investing in improved and gender-sensitive wholesale market infrastructure (e.g. in territorial food markets) could improve supply of fresh products and facilitate compliance with food safety and quality standards by smallholder producers, incentivize producers to supplyhigher-quality foods that could bring them better returns, and increase the quantity and variety of food supply through vertical and horizontal scaling.
2023
Investing in infrastructure is key for enhancing agrifood systems linkages across the rural–urban continuum. From a productive perspective, investing in irrigation is important for boosting fruit and vegetable production.
2023
Cold chains provide benefits in terms of maintaining food quality (including nutritional quality) and safety, reducing food loss and waste, and facilitating market access, and they are also key to maintaining the integrity of veterinary medicines and vaccines to help prevent and manage outbreaks of zoonotic diseases.
2023
Climate-friendly refrigeration systems based on renewable energy can help cold chains become more sustainable, though challenges such as access to reliable and affordable energy need to be addressed.
2023
Invest in rural transport, market infrastructure, nutrient-preserving food processing and food storage, with special consideration for disadvantaged groups and places, and supporting territorial markets.
2023
Governments, private sector, and other stakeholders should, where appropriate, invest in infrastructure (e.g. storage facilities, transport infrastructure, physical markets and market information systems) and logistical support to prevent postharvest loss and waste and support the ability of food producers, including smallholders and micro, small and medium-size enterprises to deliver diverse, perishable and safe food to local, regional, international markets in sustainable ways.
2021
Strengthen local, national and regional markets (through appropriate measures such as processing hubs, transportation infrastructure and adapted food safety regulations in line with international standards (IPPC, Codex and OIE) to link urban communities and rural territories through sustainable food production systems that support rural livelihoods, including by capturing a high proportion of the value of production locally.
2019
Repurpose ageing infrastructure to consider all forms of freshwater storage, both natural and built, for multiple benefits.
2023
Improve water management and irrigation technologies.
2023
Modernize irrigation systems to align with farmer demand for flexible and reliable water supplies and phase out flood irrigation techniques.
2023
Change water-pricing policies and subsidies to irrigation, or energy for irrigation. Channelling existing subsidies towards investments in new infrastructure, promotion and adoption of water saving practices, and soil enhancement methods should be privileged, including payments for carbon in soil.
2023
Protect food through use of improved technologies and enhanced storage facilities with limited GHG footprint, especially by deploying innovative cold storage solutions and low-scale storage solutions for smallholders.
2023
Foster partnerships between public and private sectors to invest in infrastructure, logistics, and technology innovations that streamline the supply chain and minimize losses.
2023
Improve infrastructure to facilitate integration and distribution of bioenergy within existing systems, leveraging compatibility with natural gas and industrial infrastructures.
2023
Increase availability and reduce prices of nutritious foods by repurposing agricultural policies toward nutritious foods and increasing investment in transport, infrastructure, and logistics.
2024
Support sound governance and institutions for reduced sovereign financial risk.
2024
Intervene along agrifood supply chains to lower the cost of nutritious foods by increasing investments for nutrition-sensitive agricultural production and productivity; increasing efficiency of nutritious food value chains; reducing nutritious food loss and waste; promoting food biofortification; enacting mandatory food fortification; improving rural roads and infrastructure (e.g. nutritious food storage facilities).
2024
Encourage both public and private investments in infrastructure, logistics, innovation and technology and capacities in the intermediary sector of urban food value chains, particularly for fresh and perishable foods.
2024
Work with market traders and street vendors to improve food safety by: (i) creating an enabling environment (where local and national authorities support food safety through investment in basic infrastructure, policy and regulation, capacity building and monitoring and surveillance activities); (ii) providing appropriate training and technology for value chain actors; and (iii) providing incentives for behaviour change.
2024
Ensure that infrastructure investments, including for transport, are equity sensitive, and include informal‑sector actors and food‑insecure consumers.
2024
Integrate food‑trade infrastructure in transport planning to enable the sale of healthy meals to commuters.
2024
Incentivize investments towards low‑income residents and neighbourhoods for the provision of water, sanitation, waste management and reliable energy to enable healthy diets, safer food handling, and washing, preparation and cooking of meals at home.
2024
Strengthen urban health services (neonatal and infant nutrition guidance, prevention diagnostics) for FSN outcomes.
2024
Identify critical food infrastructure to be prioritized in times of crisis, and populations and areas most vulnerable to food insecurity in times of disaster and shock.
2024
Governments need to increase their investments in agriculture and rural infrastructure in line with their 10% commitment to CAADP.
2017
Priority should also be given to infrastructure investment that favors linkages between rural areas and secondary cities and towns, including improved wholesale markets in those cities and towns linked by information flows to improved rural assembly markets.
2017
Basic infrastructure and roads, particularly in rural areas and the development of markets in urban and peri-urban areas facilitates physical access to food
2019
Refocus technology and infrastructure to achieve quality food production
2020
Better adapt technology and infrastructure to local constraints and opportunities
2020
Invest in enhanced territorial market infrastructure at the regional, national and local levels.
2020
Need to complete the extension of their electrification and sanitation networks into remote rural areas
2019
Rural-rural and rural-urban road infrastructure
2019
Rural electrification for productive activities
2019
Access to workspace and infrastructure for rural and smalltown households and for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
2019
Rural water, health and sanitation
2019
Regulatory structures to promote mobile communications coverage in rural areas
2019
Public works and employment guarantee schemes: Investments in initiatives that engage participants in manual, labor-oriented activities, such as building or rehabilitating community assets and public infrastructure, can support consumption and avoid distress sales of land and other assets, thereby boosting purchasing power and enhancing resilience in the process.
2016
Improved market infrastructure: To boost commercial linkages between rural and urban areas and ease the growing demand-pull from the latter to the former, commerce-enhancing infrastructure (hard and soft) must be expanded, including roads, electricity grids, connectivity, storage and warehousing capacity, and rural and wholesale markets (and complementary services).
2016
Essential rural infrastructure: Significant investment is required to expand basic rural infrastructure in the form of roads and footpaths, bridges, schools and other buildings, irrigation and drainage, water supply and sanitation, energy, and telecommunications.
2016
Combine technological innovations, institutional capacity, and infrastructure investments – such as use of information and communication technology, food quality certification, and cold-chains to catalyze positive systemic change at the national level
2020
Trade infrastructure: reform customs; liberalize transport services; invest in parts and roads. Improving customs and border procedures, promoting competition in transport and logistics services, and enhancing port structure and governance can reduce trade costs related to time and uncertainty, mitigating the disadvantages associated with a remote location.
2020
Advanced logistics services: invest in multimodal transport infrastructure
2020
Basic ICT connectivity: Liberalize ICT services; invest in ICT infrastructure
2020
Attraction of investments in rural infrastructure, small enterprise development (e.g. inputs, local storage and processing facilities, logistic and transport).
2016