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Book (series)The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025
Addressing high food price inflation for food security and nutrition
2025While 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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Book (stand-alone)Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025 2025FAO completed its first assessment of the world’s forest resources in 1948. Since then, the Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) has evolved into a comprehensive evaluation of forest resources and their condition, management and uses, covering all the thematic elements of sustainable forest management. This, the latest of these assessments, examines the status of, and trends in, forest resources over the period 1990–2025, drawing on the efforts of hundreds of experts worldwide. The results of FRA 2025 are available in several formats, including this report, an interactive story on key findings and an online database at https://fra-data.fao.org.
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Book (series)营养挑战徽章训练手册 2021
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《营养挑战徽章训练手册》旨在帮助青少年儿童学习平衡多样化膳食的重要意义，保障人体各方面的营养需求，过上幸福健康的生活。本手册的内容包括如何做出健康的饮食选择，饮食安全的重要性，以及如何采取可持续膳食，从而减少对环境的影响。本手册还提供了丰富多彩的活动和课程，可激发学习热情，鼓励青少年儿童拥抱健康环保的生活方式。 -
Book (stand-alone)Artificial intelligence for food safety
A literature synthesis, real-world applications and regulatory frameworks
2025Also available in:
No results found.Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly applied in food safety management, offering new capabilities in data analysis, predictive modelling, and risk-based decision-making. A review of the literature identifies three primary areas of application: scientific advice, inspection and border control, and operational activities of food safety competent authorities. Five country examples with the real-world use cases illustrate diverse uses of AI tools, including pathogen detection, import sampling prioritization, and language models for regulatory data processing. Regulatory frameworks, as well as voluntary governance, addressing AI in the public sector are emerging worldwide. National and international initiatives often highlight the importance of data governance, transparency, ethical considerations, and human oversight. Challenges such as biased data, explainability, and data governance gaps appear across different contexts, along with potential risks from deploying AI systems prematurely. Access to high-quality, interoperable data and collaboration among stakeholders can support effective integration of AI technologies. AI readiness often depends on understanding specific problems to be addressed, current capacities, and the quality of available data. Human oversight and continuous evaluation contribute to maintaining trust in AI systems. Collaborative efforts involving academia, the private sector, and international organizations help build shared knowledge and resources for AI development in food safety. Overall, AI presents opportunities to enhance resilience, efficiency, and responsiveness in food safety systems. Careful consideration of governance, data management, and multi-stakeholder cooperation can shape AI’s contribution to achieving sustainable and equitable outcomes in agrifood systems.
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BookletYemen: DIEM-Monitoring emergency agriculture support brief
Rounds 28 and 29, September 2025
2025Also available in:
No results found.This emergency agriculture support brief presents the results of the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth rounds of Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring), conducted in Yemen in March and June 2025. It provides humanitarian actors with an in-depth analysis focused on agricultural households to target interventions aimed at supporting livelihoods and strengthening resilience to future shocks, protecting the food security of rural populations. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations established DIEM-Monitoring in June 2020. Data are collected several times a year across food insecure countries by DIEM enumerators through computer-assisted telephone interviews and face-to-face surveys. These data cover shocks, agricultural livelihoods, food security and household needs, and are regularly updated and easily accessible on the DIEM Hub. DIEM products consist of dashboards, maps, briefs and aggregated data, enabling partners and stakeholders to activate mitigation measures and target vulnerable households. -
Journal, magazine, bulletinCodex: Together
Protecting health, facilitating trade
2025Also available in:
No results found.The 2025 edition of the CODEX magazine, published to coincide with the 48th meeting of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, is produced under the theme “Together”. In it, we recognize the unity of purpose that is a hallmark of Codex work, while acknowledging that an important part of that work is to find ways of negotiating Members’ divergent opinions, competing national priorities, and different capacities. In the magazine, we also identify ways in which committees work together, Members join forces, and processes converge to streamline our work through effective collaboration. We hear from a range of contributors looking from different perspectives, from Members, Observers, representatives of the Commission’s parent organizations (FAO and WHO), and from the Codex Secretariat. And, as ever, we learn about the work of Codex committees and the texts and proposals that have been forwarded to CAC48. -
Book (stand-alone)Escola na Machamba do Camponês em agrofloresta
Manual prático para facilitadores
2025Also available in:
No results found.The "Escola na Machamba do Camponês em Agrofloresta – Manual Prático para Facilitadores," published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 2024, is a comprehensive guide designed to support facilitators in implementing Farmer Field Schools (FFS) focused on agroforestry in rural communities in Mozambique. The manual aims to equip facilitators with the knowledge and tools necessary to guide smallholder farmers in sustainable land management through agroforestry systems (SAFs), promoting food security, environmental restoration, and economic resilience. -
Book (stand-alone)Cahier d’opportunités d’investissement agricole responsable dans le gouvernorat de Kébili
La filière porteuse camélidés
2025Also available in:
No results found.Ce cahier présente des idées de projets d'investissement dans deux secteurs de la région de Kebili en Tunisie, à savoir les camélidés et les dattes. Il fournit une analyse de base des opportunités et des risques potentiels de chaque projet, ainsi qu'une estimation de leur conformité avec les Principes pour un investissement responsable dans l'agriculture et les systèmes alimentaires (Principes CSA-IRA). Bien que ce cahier ne puisse en aucun cas remplacer les études de faisabilité et de marché réalisées par les jeunes intéressés par ces chaînes de valeur, il fournit des idées qui pourraient servir d'inspiration pour le développement d'éventuels projets responsables. -
Book (stand-alone)Global macro-economic factors and key drivers impacting global food price volatility, domestic food prices, affordability, and accessibility of food
A paper produced for the G20 Taskforce on Food Security under the Presidency of South Africa
2025Also available in:
No results found.Global food prices became again a concern for policy makers in 2020. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was followed closely by the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, posing two successive shocks to the global economy and agricultural markets in the context of recurrent weather adverse conditions. These events contributed to the deterioration of global food security. The FAO Food Price Index reached its highest historical level in March 2022, and while international food prices have since declined, they have not returned to pre-pandemic levels. The international community, including the G20, used several policy instruments to respond to these shocks. These included monetary, financial and trade policies.The present paper was prepared by FAO at the request of the G20 Presidency of the Republic of South Africa to inform the deliberations of the G20 Taskforce on Food Security in 2025. It discusses the drivers behind recent food price movements and inflation, their pass-through to domestic markets and puts forward policy responses that can help mitigate these effects. The present paper draws from previous FAO work and contains some findings from the 2025 edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World – Addressing high food price inflation for food security and nutrition (SOFI 2025). For an extended analysis on this topic, readers may wish to refer to SOFI 2025.