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Book (stand-alone)Technical bookMarket structure and efficiency in agricultural value chains: Deep dives in El Salvador and the Dominican Republic 2025
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No results found.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. -
DocumentOther documentWebinar - The requirements and responsibilities of producers, distributors, certifiers, trade unions and civil society with respect to shared responsibility and due diligence in the African banana industry, 20 October 2022
World Banana Forum African Regional Commission
2023Also available in:
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DocumentOther documentWebinar – Requirements and Responsibilities of Producers, Distributors and Certifiers with Respect to Shared Responsibility and Due Diligence, 18 July 2022
Regional Commission of Latin American and Caribbean Producers
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Book (series)Technical studyA global yield gap assessment to link land degradation to socioeconomic risks
Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2025
2025Also available in:
No results found.There is growing empirical evidence that land degradation (e.g. loss of soil organic carbon, soil drying, increased soil erosion) is associated with increased crop yield gaps. Here, we examine how much this happens where socio-economically vulnerable populations are located and how much crop yield is lost overall. For this, we rely on newly available data on crop yield gaps, land degradation, and poverty – especially relying on satellite data – and causal forest models for the analysis. We find that globally, 1.7 billion people live where crop yields are lower due to land degradation. Particularly worrying, this includes 47 million children under the age of five already affected by stunting. The largest losses are found in eastern and southeastern Asia, with 1.3 million tonnes of lost crop production, implying a caloric loss of 3.6 trillion kcal, and lost revenues of USD 591 million. These numbers are lower-bound estimates for two reasons: first, only nonabandoned croplands are included in this study, while extreme forms of land degradation lead to abandonment; and second, only soil organic carbon, soil water, and soil erosion were used as land degradation indicators, while land degradation has other costs including lost ecosystem services and pollution. Despite being a lower bound, findings reveal clear impacts on crop production within the context of socio-economic vulnerability, which can guide policy prioritization to address land degradation and food security. -
Book (series)Technical studyRisk assessment of Listeria monocytogenes in foods. Part 2: Risk Assessment
Meeting report
2025Also available in:
No results found.The Fifty-second Session of the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene (CCFH) requested the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) to undertake full production-to-consumption risk assessments of L. monocytogenes in foods to inform a possible revision of the Guidelines on the application of general principles of food hygiene to the control of Listeria monocytogenes in foods.In response to this request, JEMRA convened a series of meetings, to prepare and develop risk assessments for Listeria monocytogenes in various foods. Several risk assessment models were developed and evaluated to characterize the risk of listeriosis due to the consumption of diced ready-to-eat cantaloupe, frozen vegetables, and cold-smoked ready-to-eat fish. Additionally, an updated dose–response model for Listeria monocytogenes was developed.This report describes the output of this expert meeting and the advice herein is useful for both risk assessors and risk managers, at national and international levels and those in the food industry working to control the hazard in foods. -
MeetingMeeting documentWorld Soil Day - 5 December 2024. Campaign Report
Caring for soils, measure, monitor, manage
2025Also available in:
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