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Book (series)An Overview on How Sustainability is Addressed in Official Bioeconomy Strategies at International, National and Regional Levels 2016
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No results found.This report provides an overview of about twenty bioeconomy strategies, at international , national and sub-national levels. It analyses how these strategies have addressed sustainability issues. The report also provides a brief discussion on approaches used to develop bioeconomy strategies. Finally, it also discusses the action plans of 10 action plans related to some of these strategies,and some comncluding remarks. -
Book (stand-alone)The future of food and agriculture: Trends and challenges 2017
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No results found.What will be needed to realize the vision of a world free from hunger and malnutrition? After shedding light on the nature of the challenges that agriculture and food systems are facing now and throughout the 21st century, the study provides insights into what is at stake and what needs to be done. “Business as usual” is not an option. Major transformations in agricultural systems, rural economies, and natural resources management are necessary. The present study was undertaken for the quadrennial review of FAO’s strategic framework and for the preparation of the Organization Medium-Term plan 2018-2021. -
Book (stand-alone)The plants that feed the world
Baseline data and metrics to inform strategies for the conservation and use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture
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No results found.The availability of comprehensive and reliable information is crucial for developing evidence-based policies and strategies for the conservation and use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Information on food and agricultural crops, on their use, interdependence, demand, supply, and security is increasingly available but scattered through a number of information systems, databases and scientific literature. This study was undertaken by a team of international experts to pool together information from a wide range of sources in a user-friendly manner and to develop a reproducible set of metrics and indicators, complementing existing indicators. The main global database sources consulted include FAOSTAT, the Data Store of the International Treaty, FAO WIEWS, Genesys PGR, GBIF, PlantSearch, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault’s SeedPortal, UPOV’s PLUTO database, and NCBI’s Entrez database. The resulting metrics were organized into five domains – crop use, interdependence, demand, supply, and security. The study includes findings about the importance of the Multilateral System of Access and Benefit-sharing of the International Treaty, the primary global operational mechanism to exchange plant germplasm needed for research and breeding around the world, while pointing at gaps and possibilities to enable its growth. A number of vignettes complete the study with information on contemporary issues on crop conservation and use, to further showcase how the management of plant genetic diversity is evolving at present. It is hoped that this publication will support countries, researchers, breeders and other stakeholders in prioritizing activities, implementing multilateral frameworks and leading policy discussions related to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. -
Book (series)The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022
Repurposing food and agricultural policies to make healthy diets more affordable
2022This year’s report should dispel any lingering doubts that the world is moving backwards in its efforts to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms. We are now only eight years away from 2030, but the distance to reach many of the SDG 2 targets is growing wider each year. There are indeed efforts to make progress towards SDG 2, yet they are proving insufficient in the face of a more challenging and uncertain context. The intensification of the major drivers behind recent food insecurity and malnutrition trends (i.e. conflict, climate extremes and economic shocks) combined with the high cost of nutritious foods and growing inequalities will continue to challenge food security and nutrition. This will be the case until agrifood systems are transformed, become more resilient and are delivering lower cost nutritious foods and affordable healthy diets for all, sustainably and inclusively. -
Book (series)The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2024
Blue Transformation in action
2024The 2024 edition of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture features the Blue Transformation in action, illustrated by activities and initiatives, led by FAO in collaboration with Members, partners and key stakeholders, to integrate aquatic foods into global food security and sustainability, enhance policy advocacy, scientific research and capacity building, disseminate sustainable practices and technological innovations, and support community involvement. Part 1 of this edition of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture benefits from significant improvements in data collection, analytical and assessment tools and methodologies to present the most up-to-date review of world fisheries and aquaculture production and utilization. Part 2 highlights the role of FAO and its partners to catalyse the transformational changes required to support aquaculture expansion and intensification, effective management of global fisheries and upgrading of aquatic value chains. Part 3 covers the high-impact challenges and opportunities of the untapped potential of utilizing whole fish and by-products to improve food security and nutrition, expounds on the role of aquatic food systems in providing critical climate, biodiversity and environmentally sound solutions, and highlights the importance of their integration into national and multilateral processes. It also presents an outlook on future trends up to 2032 based on projections. The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2024 provides the most up-to-date and evidence-based information, supporting policy, scientific and technical insights on challenges, opportunities and innovations shaping the present and future of the sector, for the benefit of a wide and expanding audience of policymakers, managers, scientists, fishers, farmers, traders, civil society activists and consumers.
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Book (series)Food Outlook – Biannual report on global food markets 2025
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No results found.Food outlook is a biannual publication (June and November) focusing on developments affecting global food commodity markets. FAO’s latest assessments indicate a relatively optimistic outlook for food commodity markets, with production and trade of all commodities, except sugar, anticipated to increase. However, this growth will have different impacts on stock recovery, influenced by the delicate balance between supply and demand. Global food commodity production remains vulnerable to weather conditions. Additionally, ongoing geopolitical tensions, uncertainties in policy developments, and potential retaliatory actions could negatively affect the trade outlook. In addition to market assessment, each edition contains a set of special features and market indicators. The June 2025 edition offers a feature article on economic impacts and trade implications of high pathogenicity avian influenza. Additional topics, such as changes in the trade flows following the start of the war in Ukraine, fertilizer update, economic drivers of fish fraud, and implications of decarbonization of the international maritime sector for net food-importing developing countries are also discussed. Overview of the market indicators summarizes developments on the futures markets, ocean freight rates, food import bill, and food price indices. -
BookletFAO in Europe and Central Asia 2024 2025
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No results found.This publication summarizes very succintly the key achievements and collaboration for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the Europe and Central Asia region, despite the backdrop of ongoing challenges such as the war in Ukraine, climate change and political instability. The first section approaches programme work through the lens of the four betters. The work of FAO for its Regional Priority Programme on Empowering smallholders, family farms and youth thorugh inclusive rural transformation, digitalization and innovation" such as the Green Agriculture Technical Platform, digital agriculture and better access to resources and are described under the better production heading, Also under better production is FAO's work on One Health and other initiatives related to the "Regional Priority Programme: transforming food systems and facilitating market access and integration." The section on better nutrition includes food safety work, the achievements of the Issue-based Coalition on Sustainable Food Systems, Codex, plant health and markets and trade. The better environment part of the section focuses on climate change mitigation and the adaption of agrifood systems to be more sustainable and resilient. Gender equity, rural transformation and resilient agrifood systems are described under the rubric of better life.The second section of the report gives a very brief synopsis of important completed and ongoing project work in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan, Türkiye, Turkmenistan and Ukraine. The narrative covers the One country One Priority Product programme, the Digital Villages initiative and smart villages, women bean growers, a project about women driving resilience, the national animal identification and tracing project that has expanded within the region, locust control, land consolidation, the development of a digital land cadastre system, women's cooperatives and women's empowerment, Farmer Field Schools, forest restoration and biodiversity conservation non-wood forest products value chain development and more. -
Book (stand-alone)Stratégie d’échantillonnage biophysique 2025
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No results found.Le dernier inventaire forestier et pastoral national de la Tunisie a été réalisé en 2007 et publié en 2010. Les données de l’inventaire n’ont pas été mises à jour ni maintenues de manière appropriée et les plans nationaux, tels que le cadre du Plan d'action régional 2015-2024, ainsi que l'établissement d'objectifs de développement durable, ont un besoin critique d'informations précises sur l’état des ressources forestières, pastorales et oléicoles. L’inventaire forestier, pastoral et oléicole national, qui fait partie du projet de gestion intégrée des paysages relevant du Ministère de l'agriculture, des ressources hydrauliques et de la pêche et financé par la Banque mondiale, deviendra un outil clé pour fournir ces informations.La mise en œuvre de la méthodologie de l’inventaire forestier, pastoral et oléicole national a commencé par des consultations avec les parties prenantes et a conduit à la préparation de documents stratégiques sur lesquels l'ensemble du système se base. La stratégie d’échantillonnage de l’inventaire forestier, pastoral et oléicole national proposée ici prend en compte l’analyse des rapports existants et les sources principales de données géographiques et dendrométriques disponibles, et a été adaptée aux conditions et aux besoins d’informations, avec le soutien de l’équipe technique centrale de la Direction générale des forêts, de la Direction générale de la production agricole et des acteurs nationaux des secteurs forestier, pastoral et oléicole. Après avoir collecté, sélectionné et analysé les données disponibles, la variabilité des indicateurs clés a été calculée pour les différentes options d’échantillonnage proposées. La stratégie sélectionnée en collaboration avec les partenaires nationaux est un échantillonnage systématique pré-stratifié par région naturelle avec des intensités différentes pour chaque strate (ou région naturelle). L'intensité d'échantillonnage dans chaque zone a été déterminée pour un intervalle de confiance de 7 pour cent pour la biomasse des ressources arborées forestières. Les unités d’échantillonnage sont considérées comme permanentes et sont localisées de façon aléatoire dans une grille hexagonale, où la distance entre les unités d’échantillonnage est comprise entre 2 480 et 12 190 mètres en fonction des strates (ou régions naturelles). Au total, 7 581 unités d’échantillonnage ont été sélectionnées au niveau national et environ la moitié seront visitées sur le terrain après une évaluation par télédétection de caractéristiques telles que l’occupation du sol, l’accessibilité et d’autres facteurs. -
Book (series)Review of the state of world marine fishery resources – 2025 2025
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No results found.Marine fisheries are crucial to the food security and nutrition, economy and overall well-being of coastal communities. Maintaining the long-term prosperity and sustainability of marine fisheries is therefore not only ecologically significant, but has social, economic and political importance. The aim of this report is to provide FAO Members, national and regional policymakers, academia, civil society, fishers and managers of world fishery resources with a comprehensive, objective and global review of the state of the living fishery resources of the oceans. This document updates the regular reviews of the state of the world’s marine fishery resources, based on stock assessments and complementary information up to 2023, and official catch statistics through to 2021. The introductory and methodology chapters provide the wider context in which this updated edition of the Review of the state of world marine fishery resources was prepared, highlighting evolutions in the landscape of fisheries and stock assessment capacities since the previous edition of this report in 2011. The methodology section gives a detailed overview of the updated FAO process for providing the state of stocks index, which involved a highly participatory and transparent process (including 19 regional workshops and consultations, with around 650 in-person experts representing 92 countries and 200 organizations). Importantly, the total number of stocks in the assessments included in this report has significantly increased to 2 570. Discussions on major trends and changes at the global level are explored in a dedicated global overview chapter, while more detailed information on the status of stocks for each of the FAO Major Fishing Areas is set out in dedicated regional chapters. Special sections address the global issue of tunas and tuna-like species, and other high-profile fisheries such as deep-sea fisheries in areas beyond national jurisdiction, and highly migratory sharks. Summary tables are provided for each species grouping used in this assessment, indicating the number of stocks included, their sustainability classification between overfished, maximally sustainably fished, and underfished categories, and the number of stocks classified into tiers based on the availability and quality of information and thus the assessment methods used. -
Book (stand-alone)Manual sobre la elaboración y el uso de las especificaciones de los plaguicidas microbianos de la FAO y la OMS 2025
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La FAO y la OMS acordaron, en 2001, elaborar conjuntamente especificaciones para los plaguicidas, proporcionando así normas únicas, sólidas y de aplicación mundial sobre la calidad de estos productos. Este programa conjunto se basa en un memorando de entendimiento entre ambas organizaciones. La presente primera edición (2024) del Manual sobre la elaboración y el uso de las especificaciones de los plaguicidas microbianos de la FAO y la OMS – disponible solo en formato digital – reemplaza cualquier manual o documento de orientación sobre este tema publicados anteriormente por la FAO o la OMS.La presente publicación describe el procedimiento estándar, los requisitos y procedimientos unificados, las definiciones y nomenclaturas armonizadas, las directrices técnicas y las normas que se deben aplicar a los plaguicidas microbianos para su uso en la agricultura y la salud pública. Las especificaciones de los plaguicidas microbianos de la FAO y la OMS, ilustradas en este documento, se elaboran a través de la Reunión Conjunta FAO/OMS sobre las Especificaciones de Plaguicidas y se publican en los sitios web de ambas organizaciones.