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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureSustainable nitrogen management in agrifood systems
Report brief
2025Also available in:
No results found.The FAO report "Sustainable Nitrogen Management in Agrifood Systems" provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges and opportunities related to nitrogen use in agrifood systems. The report explores solutions to enhance nitrogen use efficiency in crop and animal production and elaborates on the magnitude, sources, and pathways of nitrogen flows and losses, and associated environmental impacts such as eutrophication, acidification and biodiversity loss. The report suggests sector-specific approaches to enhance nutrient use efficiency, including the adoption of circular bioeconomy practices, and policy recommendations to promote sustainable nitrogen management. This in brief version summarizes the main messages, key actions and policy options for sustainable nitrogen management in agrifood systems. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical reportSustainable nitrogen management in agrifood systems 2025
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No results found.Nitrogen is an essential element in the natural environment, forming critical compounds necessary for all living organisms. As it cycles through air, soil, and water, nitrogen is fundamental to ecosystem functionality. However, improper management of nitrogen in agrifood systems can degrade air, water, and soil quality, while excessive extraction from soils leads to soil degradation, biodiversity loss, and exacerbation of climate change. This FAO report provides a comprehensive overview of nitrogen's role, and the challenges associated with its use in agrifood systems. It explores solutions for improving nitrogen management in crop and livestock systems to enhance nitrogen use efficiency while reducing pollution. Additionally, it highlights the potential of circular bioeconomy approaches to optimize nitrogen management and minimize nitrogen losses. By adopting balanced nitrogen practices, agrifood systems can be transformed to ensure food security, improved nutrition, and sustainable livelihoods for farmers while minimizing negative environmental impacts. -
Book (series)Technical studyEnvironmental inhibitors in agrifood systems
Considerations for food safety risk assessment
2025Also available in:
No results found.Transforming agrifood systems is key to meeting the growing global food demand while reducing agriculture’s environmental impact. Environmental inhibitors can help reduce methane emissions from farming sectors like livestock and rice cultivation, and the loss of nitrogen from farmlands. While not yet in widespread use, methanogenesis inhibitors, nitrification inhibitors and urease inhibitors, are being explored for their capacity to both increase nitrogen use efficiency and reduce the impact of agriculture on climate change.Although various environmental inhibitors are currently in development, with some already in use across markets, potential food safety risks from residues in food products have not always been fully addressed. This publication proposes a food safety risk assessment process for environmental inhibitors addressing potential residue uptake and transfer into crops intended for human consumption and foods of animal origin.
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Book (series)Technical studyOrganic Agriculture in Azerbaijan
Current status and potentials for future development
2017Also available in:
The book’s aim was to compile the existing data on organic agriculture and those collected through the project activities in order to display the current state-of-art in Azerbaijan. The book will also be available in the Russian and Azerbaijani languages to help decision makers and all stakeholders. This basis is expected to trigger further activities and projects on organic agriculture. The funding and support provided by the FAO-Turkey Partnership Programme (FTPP) to both the project and the b ook is deeply appreciated. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookRevisión científica del impacto del cambio climático en las plagas de las plantas
Un desafío mundial en la prevención y la mitigación de los riesgos de plagas en la agricultura, la silvicultura y los ecosistemas
2021El cambio climático representa un desafío sin precedentes para la biosfera mundial y para la comunidad global. También es un desafío excepcional para la sanidad vegetal. Las actividades humanas y la creciente globalización de los mercados, junto con el aumento de las temperaturas, han dado lugar a una situación favorable para el desplazamiento y el establecimiento de las plagas. Esta revisión científica evalúa los posibles efectos del cambio climático en las plagas de las plantas y, en consecuencia, en la sanidad vegetal. Las pruebas evaluadas indican claramente que el cambio climático ya ha ampliado la variedad de especies hospedadoras y la distribución geográfica de algunas plagas, y puede aumentar aún más el riesgo de introducción de plagas en nuevas zonas. Todo esto reclama la cooperación internacional y el desarrollo de estrategias de protección de las plantas normalizadas para ayudar a los países a adaptar con éxito sus medidas de gestión del riesgo de plagas al cambio climático. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical studyMarine Spatial Planning for Enhanced Fisheries and Aquaculture Sustainability 2016
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No results found.This document provides a clear and comprehensive account for the application of marine spatial planning (MSP) within the Regional Commission for Fisheries (RECOFI) region. It builds on regional technical workshops, held under the auspices of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), aimed principally at improving the prospects for fisheries and aquaculture in the Near East. Marine spatial planning provides a step-by-step process that allows for the cooperative integrati on of the major marine uses and users within a defined marine area. These ordered procedures allow all stakeholders to work towards ensuring the long-term sustainability of identified marine activities. The principles of the ecosystem approach to both fisheries and aquaculture can readily be incorporated into the process. The output of MSP is the development of a plan that addresses any potentially conflicting uses of the sea, thus enabling the strategic, forward-looking planning for the regulat ion, zoning, management, protection and sustainability of the marine environment. MSP can best function if it includes continuing reinforcement and adjustments of learned experiences over a long time period. The document includes three important annexes. The first includes the main recommendations concerning the adoption of marine spatial planning taken from the RECOFI (FAO) Cairo workshop in 2012. The second describes the types of marine activities that must be considered, their relative import ance to the national economy and to the sustainability of the marine environment. The third annex provides a comprehensive listing of additional information about MSP, including worldwide examples where MSP has been applied under varied local conditions at highly variable geographic scales.