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Book (series)HandbookFood balance sheets and supply utilization accounts resource handbook 2025 2025
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No results found.Acquiring accurate and timely statistical data is crucial for shaping effective strategies in agrifood systems, directly impacting living standards across nations. Food balance sheets are a structured representation of a country’s food availability, presented as an accounting of the supply and use of resources and food during a specified reference period. They are pivotal statistics, which provide comprehensive insights into national food consumption patterns, levels and trends. This handbook provides an essential description of the methodology used by FAO to develop food balance sheets. It aims to familiarize Member Nations, food budgeting institutions, and other interested parties with the core processes involved in data collection and imputation strategies specifically for agricultural and livestock products. -
DocumentOther documentRevised food balance sheet methodology and its compilation tool
Training Activities Global Strategy to improve agricultural and rural statistics - Users’ guide – Training material
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Book (series)Working paperGlobal and regional food availability from 2000 to 2017 – An analysis based on Supply Utilization Accounts data 2020
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No results found.One of the main pillars of food security is food supply, which refers to the availability of sufficient quantities of food of appropriate quality, supplied through domestic production or imports. In this paper, we use quantities of commercialized foods from the Supply and Utilization Accounts (SUA) compiled by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to analyze trends in food available for consumption based on by region and country income level group. Results show that, in general, food groups available for consumption differ across income-level country groups. There are nonetheless evident regional trends. Low-income and lower-middle-income countries have a high reliance on staple foods, and only upper-middle-income countries and Asia have enough fruits and vegetables available to meet the FAO/World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation of consuming a minimum of 400 grams per day. In addition, the availability of animal-source foods, as well as sugars and fats, overall is highest in high-income countries, but it is increasing fast in upper-middle-income countries.
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Book (stand-alone)BrochureREDD+& FLEGT Au-delà de la théorie: Travailler ensemble pour renforcer la gouvernance forestière et atténuer les changements climatiques 2016a perte de couvert forestier contribue à un sixième des émissions annuelles de gaz à effet de serre, et contribue donc de manière significative au changement climatique. L’expérience atteste que les approches visant à réduire la déforestation, la dégradation des forêts et à renforcer la gouvernance forestière - telles que la réduction les émissions liées à la déforestation et à la dégradation des forêts (REDD+) et l’application des règlementations forestières, la gouvernance et les échanges comm erciaux (FLEGT) - peuvent être bien plus efficaces pour lutter contre la perte de forêts si elles sont mises en oeuvre conjointement. À ce jour, cependant, peu de pays ont capitalisé sur les synergies entre ces processus. Les similitudes largement reconnues entre les objectifs de la REDD+ et les initiatives du FLEGT constituent des opportunités claires d’action commune pour faire face à la déforestation et pour renforcer la gouvernance forestière. La REDD+ et le FLEGT partagent un certain nombre d’approches et d’objectifs et visent les mêmes acteurs - les parties prenantes d’entités gouvernementales du secteur forestier, les communautés locales et les peuples autochtones, ainsi que le secteur privé. Il s’agit de deux mécanismes incitatifs visant à promouvoir la gestion durable des forêts, et tous deux insistent sur l’importance de la gouvernance forestière pour y parvenir.
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Book (series)FlagshipRegional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition – Latin America and the Caribbean 2022
Towards improving affordability of healthy diets
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Regional Overview present the regional food security and nutrition situation, including trends of undernourishment, food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition, together with other indicators that could help the understanding of the causes of hunger and malnutrition. This edition offers a regional overview of the socioeconomic state of the region; national and regional data and trends regarding the costs and affordability of healthy diets; the possible drivers behind the high cost of healthy diets and their unaffordability; and introduces policies and investments around the region that aim to reduce the cost of nutritious foods and improve the affordability of healthy diets. -
Book (series)Technical studyLatin America and the Caribbean - Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2023
Statistics and trends
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The 2023 edition of the Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean presents an update of the data and trends in food security and nutrition in recent years. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis and the conflict in Ukraine, as well as the economic slowdown, rising food inflation and income inequality have had an impact on regional figures. The most recent data shows that, between 2021 and 2022, progress was made in reducing hunger and food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean. However, the progress achieved is far from the targets established to meet SDG 2 of ending hunger. In addition, one in five people in the region cannot access a healthy diet and malnutrition in all its forms, including child stunting, micronutrient deficiencies and obesity continue to be a major challenge.