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Book (stand-alone)Technical bookEstrategias de mejora genética para la gestión sostenible de los recursos zoogenéticos 2010El Plan de Acción Mundial sobre los Recursos Zoogenéticos, adoptado en 2007, es el primer acuerdo internacional para la gestión de la biodiversidad del sector ganadero. El plan amerita el desarrollo de guías técnicas para apoyar a los países en sus esfuerzos para aplicarlo. Guías para la Preparación de las estrategias nacionales y los planes de acción sobre los recursos zoogenéticos fueron publicados por FAO en 2009 y se están complementando con una serie de guías para abordar temas té cnicos específicos. La presente guía sobre Estrategias de mejora genética para la gestión sostenible de los recursos zoogenéticos se relaciona con el Área de Prioridad Estratégica 2 del Plan de Acción Mundial - «Uso sostenible y desarrollo». Ha sido avalada por la Comisión de Recursos Genéticos para la Alimentación y la Agricultura. El mejoramiento genético es un componente esencial de la gestión de los recursos genéticos y puede hacer importantes contribuciones a la seguridad alimen taria y al desarrollo rural. Sin embargo, la mayoría de los países en desarrollo no han sido exitosos en el mantenimiento de programas de mejoramiento genético. El objetivo de esta guía es ayudar a los países a planificar y desarrollar programas de mejoramiento genético eficaces y de maximizar la probabilidad de que estos programas se sostengan en el tiempo. La guía está dirigida a los decisores políticos y a las organizaciones involucradas en el desarrollo ganadero. La guía contiene consejos prácticos sobre cómo identificar objetivos y estrategias de desarrollo ganadero y cómo definir metas de mejora genética que estén en concordancia con ellos. Además la guía tiene recomendaciones para ajustar los recursos zoogenéticos a los sistemas de producción e identificar el programa de mejoramiento más adecuado y sugerencias para iniciar o mejorar programas de mejoramiento genético en raza pura o con cruzamientos y para realizar la evaluación de las decisiones de invers ión en tales programas.
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Book (stand-alone)High-profileStatus of the World's Soil Resources: Main Report 2015
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No results found.The SWSR is a reference document on the status of global soil resources that provides regional assessments of soil change. The information is based on peer-reviewed scientific literature, complemented with expert knowledge and project outputs. It provides a description and a ranking of ten major soil threats that endanger ecosystem functions, goods and services globally and in each region separately. Additionally, it describes direct and indirect pressures on soils and ways and means to combat s oil degradation. The report contains a Synthesis report for policy makers that summarizes its findings, conclusions and recommendations.The full report has been divided into sections and individual chapters for ease of downloading:
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Book (series)FlagshipThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020
Transforming food systems for affordable healthy diets
2020Updates for many countries have made it possible to estimate hunger in the world with greater accuracy this year. In particular, newly accessible data enabled the revision of the entire series of undernourishment estimates for China back to 2000, resulting in a substantial downward shift of the series of the number of undernourished in the world. Nevertheless, the revision confirms the trend reported in past editions: the number of people affected by hunger globally has been slowly on the rise since 2014. The report also shows that the burden of malnutrition in all its forms continues to be a challenge. There has been some progress for child stunting, low birthweight and exclusive breastfeeding, but at a pace that is still too slow. Childhood overweight is not improving and adult obesity is on the rise in all regions.The report complements the usual assessment of food security and nutrition with projections of what the world may look like in 2030, if trends of the last decade continue. Projections show that the world is not on track to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 and, despite some progress, most indicators are also not on track to meet global nutrition targets. The food security and nutritional status of the most vulnerable population groups is likely to deteriorate further due to the health and socio economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.The report puts a spotlight on diet quality as a critical link between food security and nutrition. Meeting SDG 2 targets will only be possible if people have enough food to eat and if what they are eating is nutritious and affordable. The report also introduces new analysis of the cost and affordability of healthy diets around the world, by region and in different development contexts. It presents valuations of the health and climate-change costs associated with current food consumption patterns, as well as the potential cost savings if food consumption patterns were to shift towards healthy diets that include sustainability considerations. The report then concludes with a discussion of the policies and strategies to transform food systems to ensure affordable healthy diets, as part of the required efforts to end both hunger and all forms of malnutrition. -
BookletCorporate general interestEmissions due to agriculture
Global, regional and country trends 2000–2018
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No results found.The FAOSTAT emissions database is composed of several data domains covering the categories of the IPCC Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector of the national GHG inventory. Energy use in agriculture is additionally included as relevant to emissions from agriculture as an economic production sector under the ISIC A statistical classification, though recognizing that, in terms of IPCC, they are instead part of the Energy sector of the national GHG inventory. FAO emissions estimates are available over the period 1961–2018 for agriculture production processes from crop and livestock activities. Land use emissions and removals are generally available only for the period 1990–2019. This analytical brief focuses on overall trends over the period 2000–2018.