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Book (stand-alone)Technical bookEcosystem services assessment in livestock agroecosystems 2025
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No results found.This document highlights the crucial role of livestock agroecosystems in rural development, landscape management, and food security, while noting that public debate often focuses mainly on negative aspects such as environmental impacts, human health, and animal welfare. These concerns tend to overshadow the multiple benefits livestock systems provide to society.Framed through the concept of ecosystem services, the guide outlines four categories of benefits that livestock agroecosystems deliver to human well-being:- Provisioning services, including the production of food and fibre.- Regulating services, such as climate and air quality control, water management, disease regulation, pollination, and natural hazard mitigation.- Cultural services, encompassing recreational, aesthetic, educational, social, and spiritual values.- Supporting services, including soil formation, photosynthesis, and water and nutrient cycling.Achieving truly sustainable livestock production requires recognizing and systematically assessing these services. To support this, the guide calls for a harmonized international approach. It recommends the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES) as a standardized framework for identifying and categorizing ecosystem services, and proposes a five-step roadmap to ensure robust and transparent valuation processes that generate reliable evidence for policy and management.Integrating biophysical, socio-cultural, economic, and modelling valuation methods, the guide serves as a first step toward consistent international guidance. It provides both conceptual foundations and practical approaches to better assess, promote, and sustain the contributions of livestock agroecosystems to global sustainability. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureAssessment of ecosystem services in livestock agroecosystems 2025
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No results found.This e-learning course introduces the concept of ecosystem services provided by livestock agroecosystems and explores various methods for assessing them. Beginning with foundational principles, the course guides learners through biophysical, sociocultural, economic, and modeling approaches. By the end, participants will have the knowledge and tools needed to effectively evaluate and promote ecosystem services within diverse agricultural contexts. -
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Book (stand-alone)Technical bookEcosystem services assessment in livestock agroecosystems 2025
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No results found.This document highlights the crucial role of livestock agroecosystems in rural development, landscape management, and food security, while noting that public debate often focuses mainly on negative aspects such as environmental impacts, human health, and animal welfare. These concerns tend to overshadow the multiple benefits livestock systems provide to society.Framed through the concept of ecosystem services, the guide outlines four categories of benefits that livestock agroecosystems deliver to human well-being:- Provisioning services, including the production of food and fibre.- Regulating services, such as climate and air quality control, water management, disease regulation, pollination, and natural hazard mitigation.- Cultural services, encompassing recreational, aesthetic, educational, social, and spiritual values.- Supporting services, including soil formation, photosynthesis, and water and nutrient cycling.Achieving truly sustainable livestock production requires recognizing and systematically assessing these services. To support this, the guide calls for a harmonized international approach. It recommends the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES) as a standardized framework for identifying and categorizing ecosystem services, and proposes a five-step roadmap to ensure robust and transparent valuation processes that generate reliable evidence for policy and management.Integrating biophysical, socio-cultural, economic, and modelling valuation methods, the guide serves as a first step toward consistent international guidance. It provides both conceptual foundations and practical approaches to better assess, promote, and sustain the contributions of livestock agroecosystems to global sustainability. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureWhy bees matter
The importance of bees and other pollinators for food and agriculture
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For centuries bees, busy as they are known to be, have benefited people, plants and the planet. But did you know that bees are not the only ones that sustain life on earth? By carrying pollen from one flower to another, bees, butterflies, birds, bats and other pollinators facilitate and improve food production, thus contributing to food security and nutrition. Pollination also has a positive impact on the environment in general, helping to maintain biodiversity and the vibrant ecosystems upon which agriculture depends. To encourage pollinator-friendly practices in agricultural management and stop the decline of pollinator populations, FAO carries out various activities. Every year on 20 May, World Bee Day offers an opportunity for all of us to pay tribute to pollinators. -
Book (stand-alone)Corporate general interestLibro di attività – L’acqua è vita, l’acqua ci nutre
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2023Questo Libro di Attività è rivolto a un’ampia fascia d’età di giovani interessati ad approfondire l’importanza dell’acqua nel nostro pianeta, con lo scopo di fornir loro soluzioni per una gestione più efficiente delle risorse idriche.Governi, settore privato, agricoltori, mondo accademico, società civile e singole persone devono collaborare per affrontare le emergenze idriche globali. È necessario produrre più cibo e altre materie prime agricole con minori quantità di acqua, garantendo al tempo stesso che venga distribuita equamente, salvaguardando i sistemi alimentari acquatici e senza lasciare nessuno indietro. Questo libro è anche fonte d’ispirazione per chi desidera iscriversi al Concorso Poster della Giornata Mondiale dell’Alimentazione 2023. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookEcosystem services assessment in livestock agroecosystems 2025
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No results found.This document highlights the crucial role of livestock agroecosystems in rural development, landscape management, and food security, while noting that public debate often focuses mainly on negative aspects such as environmental impacts, human health, and animal welfare. These concerns tend to overshadow the multiple benefits livestock systems provide to society.Framed through the concept of ecosystem services, the guide outlines four categories of benefits that livestock agroecosystems deliver to human well-being:- Provisioning services, including the production of food and fibre.- Regulating services, such as climate and air quality control, water management, disease regulation, pollination, and natural hazard mitigation.- Cultural services, encompassing recreational, aesthetic, educational, social, and spiritual values.- Supporting services, including soil formation, photosynthesis, and water and nutrient cycling.Achieving truly sustainable livestock production requires recognizing and systematically assessing these services. To support this, the guide calls for a harmonized international approach. It recommends the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES) as a standardized framework for identifying and categorizing ecosystem services, and proposes a five-step roadmap to ensure robust and transparent valuation processes that generate reliable evidence for policy and management.Integrating biophysical, socio-cultural, economic, and modelling valuation methods, the guide serves as a first step toward consistent international guidance. It provides both conceptual foundations and practical approaches to better assess, promote, and sustain the contributions of livestock agroecosystems to global sustainability. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureWhy bees matter
The importance of bees and other pollinators for food and agriculture
2018Also available in:
For centuries bees, busy as they are known to be, have benefited people, plants and the planet. But did you know that bees are not the only ones that sustain life on earth? By carrying pollen from one flower to another, bees, butterflies, birds, bats and other pollinators facilitate and improve food production, thus contributing to food security and nutrition. Pollination also has a positive impact on the environment in general, helping to maintain biodiversity and the vibrant ecosystems upon which agriculture depends. To encourage pollinator-friendly practices in agricultural management and stop the decline of pollinator populations, FAO carries out various activities. Every year on 20 May, World Bee Day offers an opportunity for all of us to pay tribute to pollinators. -
Book (stand-alone)Corporate general interestLibro di attività – L’acqua è vita, l’acqua ci nutre
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2023Questo Libro di Attività è rivolto a un’ampia fascia d’età di giovani interessati ad approfondire l’importanza dell’acqua nel nostro pianeta, con lo scopo di fornir loro soluzioni per una gestione più efficiente delle risorse idriche.Governi, settore privato, agricoltori, mondo accademico, società civile e singole persone devono collaborare per affrontare le emergenze idriche globali. È necessario produrre più cibo e altre materie prime agricole con minori quantità di acqua, garantendo al tempo stesso che venga distribuita equamente, salvaguardando i sistemi alimentari acquatici e senza lasciare nessuno indietro. Questo libro è anche fonte d’ispirazione per chi desidera iscriversi al Concorso Poster della Giornata Mondiale dell’Alimentazione 2023.