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DocumentBulletinPost-2015 and SDGs: Nourishing people,Nurturing the planet. e-bulletin May 2015 Issue No.5
FAO and the Post-2015 Development Agenda Issue Papers, 14 themes
2015Welcome to FAO’s e-bulletin on the post-2015 development agenda. In this issue, we bring you news of a side event organised by the UN Rome-based agencies on financing SDG2 ahead of July’s Third International Conference on Financing for Development. Rural actors and agents of change are the focus of a feature article and photo gallery. Boubaker Ben-Belhassen, FAO post-2015 focal point, writes on the comprehensive approach to food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture of SDG2. We present a booklet listing 100 facts linking people, food and the planet, and, in the international year of soils, deliver a story-video-infographic package on the natural resource’s links to sustainable development. -
DocumentBulletinPost-2015 and SDGs: Nourishing people,Nurturing the planet. e-bulletin July 2015 Issue No.6
FAO and the Post-2015 Development Agenda Issue Papers, 14 themes
2015Welcome to FAO’s e-bulletin on the post-2015 development agenda. In this issue, we feature a new report by the Rome-based UN agencies estimating the investments needed to achieve zero hunger by 2030. The spotlight falls on the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Ethiopia, where the Addis Ababa Action Agenda was recently adopted. Two articles are dedicated to indicators ̶ FAO’s proposals for monitoring the post-2015 agenda, and a Q&A with Indian economist Vikas Rawal. W e bring you the latest developments in the post-2015 process, including discussion on the zero draft of the outcome document. Finally, in a special focus on sustainable agriculture, Ren Wang, FAO ADG, explains how to produce more with less. -
DocumentBulletinPost-2015 and SDGs: Nourishing people,Nurturing the planet. e-bulletin June 2014 Issue No.3
FAO and the Post-2015 Development Agenda Issue Papers, 14 themes
2014Welcome to FAO’s e-bulletin on the post-2015 development agenda, the process designed to craft a successor framework to the Millennium Development Goals. In this issue, we feature proposed targets and indicators for FAO’s 14 priority themes for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), hear from Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General for Natural Resources, who describes FAO’s post-2015 focus in a video interview, and pick out five innovative ways of engaging in the process.
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Book (stand-alone)Technical bookLivestock's long shadow
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2006This report aims to assess the full impact of the livestock sector on environmental problems, along with potential technical and policy approaches to mitigation. The assessment is based on the most recent and complete data available, taking into account direct impacts, along with the impacts of feedcrop agriculture required for livestock production. The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global. The findings of this report suggest that it should be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air poullution, water shortage and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureFood wastage footprint & Climate Change 2015
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No results found.The 2011 FAO assessment of global food losses and waste estimated that each year, one-third of all food produced in the world for human consumption never reached the consumer’s table. This not only means a missed opportunity for the economy and food security, but also a waste of all the natural resources used for growing, processing, packaging, transporting and marketing food. Through an extensive literature search, the 2011 assessment of food wastage volumes gathered weight ratios of food losse s and waste for different regions of the world, different commodity groups and different steps of the supply chain. These ratios were applied to regional food mass flows of FAO’s Food Balance Sheets for the year 2007. Food wastage arises at all stages of the food supply chains for a variety of reasons that are very much dependent on the local conditions within each country. At a global level, a pattern is clearly visible; in high income regions, volumes of wasted food are higher in the processin g, distribution and consumption stages, whereas in low-income countries, food losses occur in the production and postharvesting phases. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookFood losses and waste in the context of sustainable food systems
A report by The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition June 2014
2014According to FAO, almost one-third of food produced for human consumption – approximately 1.3 billion tonnes per year – is either lost or wasted globally. Food losses and waste (FLW) impact both food security and nutrition and the sustainability of food systems, in their capacity to ensure good quality and adequate food for this generation and future generations. This report adopts a systemic perspective to analyze the impacts of FLW on the sustainability of food systems and on food security and nutrition. It reviews the wide range of causes of FLW, identifying broad categories and levels of causes. The report is deliberately oriented towards action. It provides practical elements for all concerned actors to identify, individually and collectively, their own set of possible solutions. It includes numerous examples, and proposes a “way forward” for actors to build strategies to reduce FLW in diverse contexts and situations.