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    推广生态农业 实现可持续发展目标 — 联合国粮食及农业组织第二届生态农业国际研讨会纪实 2021
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    2018年4月,联合国粮农组织(FAO)召开了第二届生态农业国际研讨会:“推广生态农业 实现可持续发展目标”。本届研讨会达成了部分协议并作出相关承诺,为推广生态农业、实现可持续发展目标奠定了基础。会议讨论并列举了推广生态农业为当地带来的主要好处、在全球层面推广生态农业的机遇以及将生态农业纳入其全球项目的具体路径,并发起了“生态农业推广举措”。该“举措”被视为推动并实现《2030年可持续发展议程》(特别是可持续发展目标2)的未来方向和战略方法。
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    The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025
    Addressing high food price inflation for food security and nutrition
    2025
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    While some progress and recovery have been made in recent years, the world is still above pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels and far from eradicating hunger and food insecurity by 2030 (SDG Target 2.1). Similarly, despite some progress in the global nutrition targets, the world is not on track to achieve SDG Target 2.2. Among other factors, persistent food price inflation has slowed this momentum.The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025 highlights how elevated inflation in many countries has undermined purchasing power and, especially among low-income populations, access to healthy diets. The report documents how high food price inflation is associated with increases in food insecurity and child malnutrition. Vulnerable groups, including low-income households, women, and rural communities, can be particularly affected by food price inflation, risking setbacks in the fight against hunger and malnutrition.In response to these challenges and to prevent future price shocks, the report examines policy measures adopted by countries, and outlines what is necessary going forwards. It stresses the importance of coherent implementation of fiscal and monetary policies to stabilize markets, promote open and resilient trade, and protect vulnerable populations. Additionally, it calls for better data systems and sustained investment in resilient agrifood systems to build long-term food security and nutrition. These coordinated actions are vital to reignite progress towards ending hunger and malnutrition by 2030.
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    世界粮食与农业 动物遗传资源状况 2007
    发展中国家大量的动物遗传资源面临危险。而用于保护与可持续利用的资金来源又非常有限,这就意味着经济分析能够在确定保护与遗传改良的优先发展重点方面发挥重要作用。在这方面,重要的任务特别包括:确定动物遗传资源在社会各行业中的经济贡献;通过可以使保护畜禽多样性的成本效益的鉴别资助重点项目的评估;以及为促进个体农民或社区的动物遗传资源保护帮助经济激励和制度安排的设计。
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    青少年海洋科普手册 2022
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    《青年与联合国全球联盟学习和行动系列:青少年海洋科普手册》是为学校、青年团体和其他好奇的年轻学习者提供的教育资源,探索从海岸带到冰冻极点,从深海到公海的海洋。它仔细探讨了塑造水下和潮间带动植物生命的物理特征和自然过程。它还展示了海洋带给我们的诸多好处,讨论了我们对海洋带来的负面影响,并解释了好的管理如何保护和养护海洋及海洋生命。在手册的最后,提供了一些鼓舞人心的青年人领导倡议的例子,并给出了容易遵循的动作计划来帮助你发展自己的海洋养护行动和项目。
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    粮农组织:粮农组织在全球化世界中面临的挑战和机遇 2019
    本书系综合性书籍,旨在确定《2030 年议程》背景下粮食和农业面临的挑战和机遇,为实现更可持续的世界提供解决方案,并展示粮农组织近年来如何致力于支持其成员国实现可持续发展目标。

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    Planning aquaculture in Landlocked Developing Countries
    Insights from the Plurinational State of Bolivia
    2025
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    Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) face persistent food security and nutrition challenges, with aquatic food consumption well below global levels. Despite abundant resources, aquaculture performance in LLDCs remains limited, though growth has accelerated in recent decades. This paper analyzes the rapid rise of aquaculture in the Plurinational State of Bolivia—one of the world’s fastest-growing producers, driven mainly by tambaqui/pacu farming. It examines production, trade, consumption, and socioeconomic and environmental dimensions, identifying key constraints such as value chain fragmentation, limited efficiency, and the need for species diversification. Bolivia’s experience highlights the value of strong institutional support, farmer engagement, targeted markets, and clear policies in building scale and consumer confidence. At the same time, it underscores the importance of aligning production with market capacity and embedding sustainability to avoid boom-bust cycles. The findings offer practical lessons for LLDCs: expand domestic fish demand, improve efficiency, strengthen governance and value chains, and adopt data-driven policies. While Bolivia’s conditions are unique, its core principles provide a pathway for using aquaculture to advance food security, nutrition, livelihoods, and sustainable growth in other LLDCs.
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    Food policy monitoring in the Near East and North Africa region, 3rd Quarter 2025 | Bulletin
    Financing the transformation of agrifood systems for food security and nutrition
    2025
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    The Near East and North Africa (NENA) region faces a fragile food security landscape, shaped by inequality, conflict, climate extremes, and price volatility. While the FAO Food Price Index remained stable in August 2025, fertilizer costs and soaring regional food inflation continued to strain households. Prices rose an average of 33.8 percent year-on-year, with Palestine and Libya experiencing inflation close to 200 percent. Agricultural output for 2024/25 varied: Tunisia reported above-average cereal harvests, while Morocco, Algeria, and Lebanon saw sharp declines due to drought, heat, or conflict. Egypt’s irrigated systems provided stability, but long-term risks from rising temperatures persist. For 2025/26, North Africa’s wheat production is expected to grow 4.2 percent, while the Near East faces a 10.4 percent decline.Food insecurity hotspots remain severe, with famine confirmed in Gaza, affecting nearly two million people, while Yemen and Sudan face worsening crises. Governments are responding with measures such as expanding grain reserves, investing in renewable energy and climate-smart irrigation, and pursuing concessional financing. Yet limited fiscal space and subsidy distortions hinder progress. The bulletin’s focus highlights financing agrifood system transformation, stressing repurposed support, innovative financial instruments, and regional platforms like the Transformational Impact Partnership to mobilize resources and build resilience.
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    Elaboración y ejecución de un Plan de acción nacional para la pesca en pequeña escala (PAN-PPE)
    Manual de apoyo a la aplicación de las Directrices voluntarias para lograr la sostenibilidad de la pesca en pequeña escala en el contexto de la seguridad alimentaria y la erradicación de la pobreza
    2025
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    El objetivo de este manual es servir de orientación para la elaboración y ejecución de un Plan de acción nacional para la pesca en pequeña escala. Estos procesos son únicos en su tipo, ya que garantizan que se escuchen las opiniones e inquietudes de las partes interesadas de pesca en pequeña escala y les permiten participar activamente en los procesos de adopción de decisiones que configuran sus vidas y medios de subsistencia. De este modo, la aplicación de un Plan de acción nacional para la pesca en pequeña escala es una forma eficaz de alinear los marcos jurídicos con las disposiciones de las Directrices voluntarias para lograr la sostenibilidad de la pesca en pequeña escala en el contexto de la seguridad alimentaria y la erradicación de la pobreza. Estas Directrices fusionan el desarrollo social con la pesca responsable, por lo que combaten la marginación y la vulnerabilidad presentes en el sector y promueven un enfoque basado en los derechos humanos.
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    20 años de trabajo de la FAO en Chile (2005-2025) 2025
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    En esta publicación conmemorativa se destacan los 20 hitos más significativos del trabajo de la FAO en Chile entre 2005 y 2025. Se muestra el impacto del apoyo técnico de la Organización en políticas públicas, programas e iniciativas relacionadas con la seguridad alimentaria, el desarrollo rural sostenible, la agricultura, la pesca, la silvicultura y la adaptación al cambio climático.
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    Market structure and efficiency in agricultural value chains: Deep dives in El Salvador and the Dominican Republic 2025
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    Hunger and malnutrition remain critical developmental challenges in Central America. Since 2020, rates of moderate and severe food insecurity have risen across the region, while key indicators in early childhood nutrition persist at high levels across both lower- and upper-middle-income states. Rising food prices play a key role in limiting access to healthy and affordable diets for the populations of these countries. In 2022 and 2023, food price inflation reached or exceeded 10 percent in Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Across almost all of these countries, white maize prices remain more than 40 percent higher than their levels in 2021, while prices for red and black beans rose by 40 percent to 90 percent over the same period. These price increases have disproportionately affected poorer and rural households. This report represents a context-specific approach to analyzing market structures and dynamics that may contribute to price distortions in two country-commodity pairs in Central America: white maize in El Salvador, and bananas in the Dominican Republic.