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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureRestoration of degraded agricultural lands
An urgent need for agrifood system transformation and land degradation neutrality
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No results found.Human-induced land degradation has heavily impacted agrifood systems, pushing their productive capacity in unsustainable ways and putting at risk global food security and nutrition, environmental sustainability, and social stability. Over 60 percent of the human-induced degradation is estimated to occur on agricultural land and nearly 30 percent occurs in areas covered with trees and forests. Restoration of degraded agricultural land needs urgent political leadership, massive investments, and concerted actions. Without the restoration of agricultural land, the achievement of global targets of land degradation neutrality (LDN) and zero hunger are not possible. There are opportunities to reverse the trend and move towards more sustainable and resilient agrifood systems. Among these are focusing on the restoration of agricultural lands and investment on using suitable lands for specific crops to narrow the current yield gap. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureClimate change - Background paper - Executive summary
Land and Water Days 2019 - Near East and North Africa
2019The Near East and North Africa (NENA) is one of the regions that will be most affected by the impacts of climate change. Small scale farmers in the region are among those most impacted by changing climate patterns and increased weather extremes, making them particularly vulnerable to natural hazards and changing climatic conditions and this is because, a majority of the agricultural areas in the Region are rain fed. Climate change thereby adds and intensifies existing challenges like population increase, water scarcity and increasing land degradation that leads to the rise in conflicts and distress migration; which requires coherence and convergence of humanitarian, development and peace actors blending short, medium and longer term interventions. -
DocumentOther documentSummary report on Land Degradation assessment training in Kyrgyzstan - January 2024 2024
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No results found.From 27 January to 3 February, the first training on remoteness and land degradation assessment (using the UNCCD methodology) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, was conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with the support of the University “La Sapienza” in the framework of the project “Sustainable management of natural resources in mountain areas” (GCP/GLO/052/ITA). The aim of the training was to provide effective and innovative tools to identify vulnerable mountain areas to local institutions, fostering the achievement of the UN 2030 Agenda goals. In this first activity in Kyrgyzstan, results were excellent: the participants showed interest in these topics, with a high level of interaction.
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Book (stand-alone)GuidelineGuidelines for grazing and livestock monitoring 2022
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No results found.This document is one of seven sets of guidelines developed to provide standards and recommendations for the integrated management of the country’s natural assets. The Guidelines for Grazing and Livestock Monitoring offer a methodology, sets of indicators and a framework to holistically and coherently assess these two variables, livestock and steppe productivity. They are addressed to decision-makers, staff of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), national and regional grazing management plan authorities, local and regional institutions who will participate in monitoring, shepherds and any other relevant stakeholders. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookEstimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Agriculture
A Manual to Address Data Requirements for Developing Countries
2015Countries report their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals from all sectors via national GHG Inventories, submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in accordance with international climate policy agreements and technical guidelines developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The agriculture sector represents a unique challenge for national inventory compilers, especially in developing countries, due to significant difficulties in compiling and regularly updating national statistics for agriculture, forestry and land use —the first necessary step in preparing national GHG estimates. This Manual provides Member Countries with a tool and methodology to help identify, build and access he minimum set of activity data needed for GHG estimation. Required data is largely drawn from country’s official national agricultural and forestry statistics, as disseminated in FAO’s corporate database FAOSTAT, and integrated by geo-spati al data obtained from recognized international sources. Users are provided with step-by-step guidance on how to use this minimum set to build a default, yet complete national GHG emission dataset for agriculture and land use, which follows the default, Tier 1 approach of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines on National GHG Inventories. This Manual therefore contributes to FAO and the Global Strategy support to national processes towards improved agricultural and rural statistics. It can be used as a guide by staff of national statistical offices, environmental ministries and other relevant national agencies, to understand the international context of international climate policy (Ch. 2) and international guidelines (Ch. 3), identify needs for improved agricultural and rural data as well as emission estimates towards improving GHG Inventories (Ch. 4), while supplying practical information and examples based on accessing and using the FAOSTAT Emissions database for agriculture and land use (Ch. 5). -
Book (series)FlagshipThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021
Transforming food systems for food security, improved nutrition and affordable healthy diets for all
2021In recent years, several major drivers have put the world off track to ending world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. The challenges have grown with the COVID-19 pandemic and related containment measures. This report presents the first global assessment of food insecurity and malnutrition for 2020 and offers some indication of what hunger might look like by 2030 in a scenario further complicated by the enduring effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also includes new estimates of the cost and affordability of healthy diets, which provide an important link between the food security and nutrition indicators and the analysis of their trends. Altogether, the report highlights the need for a deeper reflection on how to better address the global food security and nutrition situation.To understand how hunger and malnutrition have reached these critical levels, this report draws on the analyses of the past four editions, which have produced a vast, evidence-based body of knowledge of the major drivers behind the recent changes in food security and nutrition. These drivers, which are increasing in frequency and intensity, include conflicts, climate variability and extremes, and economic slowdowns and downturns – all exacerbated by the underlying causes of poverty and very high and persistent levels of inequality. In addition, millions of people around the world suffer from food insecurity and different forms of malnutrition because they cannot afford the cost of healthy diets. From a synthesized understanding of this knowledge, updates and additional analyses are generated to create a holistic view of the combined effects of these drivers, both on each other and on food systems, and how they negatively affect food security and nutrition around the world.In turn, the evidence informs an in-depth look at how to move from silo solutions to integrated food systems solutions. In this regard, the report proposes transformative pathways that specifically address the challenges posed by the major drivers, also highlighting the types of policy and investment portfolios required to transform food systems for food security, improved nutrition, and affordable healthy diets for all. The report observes that, while the pandemic has caused major setbacks, there is much to be learned from the vulnerabilities and inequalities it has laid bare. If taken to heart, these new insights and wisdom can help get the world back on track towards the goal of ending hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition in all its forms.