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ProjectFactsheetSupport Development and Implementation of a Livestock Feed Management Programme in Kenya - TCP/KEN/3902 2025
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No results found.Given the adverse impacts of climate adaptation, Kenya’s population is witnessing food insecurity at an increasing rate. A total of 23 out of the 47 counties in Kenya, or 80 percent of the country’s total land mass, is constituted of vast Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs), which are observing particularly high rates of hunger and malnutrition. Of these affected populations, a primary means of sustenance is based on pastoralism and related professions. Agriculturally dependent communities experience a range of increased vulnerabilities due to increased climate change such as through common irregular seasonal rains and periodic droughts, reduction of herd size and the incurred loss of productivity and forced migration in search of pastures and water sources. These factors all lead to rising cases of food and water scarcity, increased acute or chronic malnutrition, and extreme acute hunger; all of which may ultimately require humanitarian assistance. Evidence shows that programming aimed at protecting pastoral livelihoods by bridging the gaps in livestock feeds during lean seasons has a significant impact on preventing seasonal spikes in acute malnutrition, with research indicating that children in households with consistent access to livestock feeds throughout dry seasons consume 200 ml more milk per day than those without. -
ProjectFactsheetStrengthening Institutional and Human Capacities to Design, Implement and Generate Evidence for Nutrition Sensitive Programming Including Policy and Investments in Livestock Programming In Kenya - TCP/KEN/3802 2024
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No results found.The Government of Kenya is committed to ensuring food and nutrition security and has put policies and frameworks in place to support this commitment. Key among these are the latest Kenya National Food and Nutrition Security Policy (2017-2022), which has a strong emphasis on the food systems approach to address malnutrition. Despite this dedication, the government has identified gaps in the capacity of national staff to effectively design and implement nutrition-sensitive policies. In addition, the impact of their programmes was not well-known, as they lacked evidence on how livestock programming addressed seasonal spikes of malnutrition in children under five years of age. Policy and programme investments and implementation depend on evidence-based planning and results, highlighting another need to be addressed. Moreover, the country lacked a national information database on the food consumption of vulnerable populations, requiring additional research. To address these issues, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Development (MoALD) approached FAO for assistance. -
ProjectFactsheetSupport to Smallholder Producers, in particular Livestock Farms - TCP/MOL/3803 2024
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No results found.The agriculture sector in the Republic of Moldova is characterized by a dualistic structure, comprising a small number of large-scale enterprises and a substantial presence of small-scale family farms. The latter group faces numerous challenges hindering development, including limited financial opportunities, fragmented agricultural land, a diminished ability to manage market and weather risks, and constrained access to production resources. This leads to the adoption of short-term survival strategies that compromise their long-term resilience. Nonetheless, these smallholder family farms play a crucial role in the agricultural landscape of the Republic of Moldova, contributing to over 62 percent of the country's total agricultural produce in 2016. The United Nations declared the period 2019-2028 as the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF), underlining the pivotal role of family farms, pastoralists, and smallholders in achieving food security, improved nutrition, livelihoods, efficient natural resource management, and environmental protection, as well as promoting inclusive and sustainable development. The Republic of Moldova was one of the nations that endorsed the declaration. The Global Action Plan (GAP) for the Decade of Family Farming underscores the significance of creating a supportive policy framework to bolster family farming. By the year 2024, the GAP aims to achieve the development of 100 National Action Plans (NAPs) for family farming through collaborative efforts between governments and family farmers' organizations.
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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. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookWater level in lakes and reservoirs, water storage
Assessment of the status of the development of the standards for the Terrestrial Essential Climate Variables
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No results found.Lakes level is a complex index of natural water exchange within their watersheds. Therefore, longterm level fluctuations in natural (unregulated) lakes also reflect climate changes occurring in the region. On the other hand, lake water storage, which depends on water level, is an easily available source of water for many sectors of economy such as agriculture, domestic and industrial water supply, hydropower, water transport and others. The World Meteorological Organization’s ( WMO) International Glossary of Hydrology defines lakes as an inland body of water of considerable size while reservoirs are natural or man-made water bodies used for storage, regulation and control of water resources. Gauges on lakes and reservoirs are normally located near their outlets, but sufficiently upstream to avoid the influence of drawdown (WMO-No.168, 1994). Hydrological information obtained by groundbased gauge instruments is limited due to the sparse distribution of gauge stations. An alternative is to use radar altimetry to measure surface water height of large lakes which has an accuracy of within two centimetres and is available in near-real time. Water level in lakes and reservoirs is measured in centimetres against the national reference plane or against some adopted plane (so called “zeroâ€Â graph). Surface area of a lake or reservoir is measured in m2 or km2 depending on their size. Lake or reservoir storage (volume) is measured in m3 or km3 depending on their size. -
BookletCorporate general interestEmissions due to agriculture
Global, regional and country trends 2000–2018
2021Also available in:
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.