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No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)Technical bookThe People's Participation Programme in Africa 1994
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No results found.This report describes a participatory development methodology pioneered since 1982 by the FAO People's Participation Programme. FAO believes that the grassroots approach described here could energize a vast reservoir of human resources, providing developing countries with a key to generating rural employment, achieving food self-sufficiency, slowing the rural-urban exodus and building national self-reliance. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookThe Group Promoter’s Resource Book
A practical guide to building rural self-help groups
1994The group promoter (or GP) is a key figure in rural development. He or she has three important tasks: to help the rural poor to form small, autonomous groups, to help group members develop their skills, and to facilitate communication between groups and development services.This resource book is designed to guide GPs in all phases of group development. It provides a step-by-step approach to identifying the poor in rural communities, forming groups, linking them in associations and building group income generating activities.It includes detailed suggestions for strengthening democracy within groups and for planning group enterprises. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookDecentralized rural development and the role of self help organizations 1999
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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. -
Book (series)Technical studyGender and Land Statistics 2015
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No results found.Although there is global consensus that women’s land rights are fundamental for the realization of food security and rural development, accurate and reliable statistics to monitor the attainment and realisation of these rights are still lacking. However, landownership and management statistics are becoming increasingly available as multiple international efforts are underway, including the ‘52 Minimum Set of Gender Indicators’ approved by the UN Statistical Commission, methodological work under the UN EDGE (Evidence for Data and Gender Equality) project on collecting sex disaggregated landownership data, and FAO World Programme of Agricultural Census 2000, all which encourage countries to compile and report key sex-disaggregated indicators, including those related to land rights. This document summarizes these current efforts to streamline and compile international statistics on gender and land in a unified framework, providing an entry point for the statistical work in the Gender and Land Rights Database (GLRD) The document also summarizes current available statistics in the database (and at global level) and future FAO's work to increase their availability, particularly to monitor targets of the SDGs. -
DocumentOther documentThe Future of food and agriculture: Trends and challenges—Overview 2017
This is a brief executive summary of the report of the same name, The future of food and agriculture
The purpose of this report is to increase understanding of the nature of the challenges that agriculture and food systems are facing now and will face into the 21st century. Its analysis of 15 global trends provides insights into what is at stake and what needs to be done. Most of the trends a re strongly interdependent and, combined, inform a set of 10 challenges to achieving food security and nutrition for all and making agriculture sustainable. ‘Business-as-usual’ is not an option. Major transformations in agricultural systems, rural economies and natural resource management will be needed if we are to realize the full potential of food and agriculture to ensure a secure and healthy future for all people and the entire planet.
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