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Book (stand-alone)Food systems for an urbanizing world 2018
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Food Systems for an Urbanizing World is a joint report prepared by the World Bank and FAO. It aims to stimulate discussion and suggest pathways to support local and national governments, and civil society and private sector actors in their efforts to improve the performance and capacity of food systems. The report describes the diversity and ever-changing nature of food systems, with interlinked traditional, modern and informal channels that respond to different market segments and different consumer preferences. It also underscores the importance of targeting support to the type of city and food system. The task is not an easy one. Data are weak and empirical analysis is weaker. As cities’ engagement in urban food issues is relatively new, the institutions, governance mechanisms and capacities needed for effective design, implementation and delivery of this agenda must be strengthened. Finding effective ways to prioritize, mobilize and coordinate contributions from multiple sectors will be essential for achieving food system goals. -
Book (series)The fourth World Food Survey 1977
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No results found.It is now fourteen years since the Third World food Survey was issued by FAO in 1963. As such, the publication of The Fourth World Food Survey, which should have followed within a decade of the previous one, may be said to be overdue. However, the document "Assessment of the World Food Situation" wh1ch was prepared for the World Food Conference in 1974 included much of the material, though, in a more concise form, that would have formed the subject of this survey. Another FAO publication, Population, Food Supply, and Agricultural Development, which appeared at about the same time, also covered much the same ground. The publication of the present number in the series was therefore held over for this year, the scope of this survey is broadly similar to that of its predecessors. It makes an attempt to update the review of recent trends in food production and supply against the background of increasing population and most recent evidence regarding the incidence of under and malnutrition. The synergism between malnutrition and disease is more evident now than before. This review is disquieting, while firm evidence of any significant progress being made since the World Food Conference in reducing the numbers affected by inadequate supplies of food is not yet available. -
Book (stand-alone)World Food Survey
Washington, 5 July 1946
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No results found.Early in 1946, several of these agencies loaned the services of some of their staff members to the Food and Agriculture Organization for the purpose of making a world food survey in which the best available figures and estimates would be brought together, critically examined, and reduced to a uniform basis. The objective was to obtain as clear a picture as possible of the world food situation as it was in the years just before the war. F AO needed these figures as a guide in working out proposals for future world food and agricultural policies. This report gives the results of the survey. It covers 70 countries whose people makeup about 90 percent of the earth's population. It need scarcely be said that the figures for many countries are highly imperfect. Statistical services in most countries will have to be vastly improved before complete and accurate data are obtainable; it is one of FA O's functions to help bring about this improvement, which will take many years.
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