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No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)Technical bookThe Emergency Sequence: What FAO Does - How FAO Does It: Phase five: Relief
Phase Five - Relief
1998Also available in:
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No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)Technical reportCROP AND FOOD SUPPLY SITUATION IN KINSHASA AND THE PROVINCES OF BAS-CONGO AND BANDUNDU OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - 8 November 2000 2000
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Living standards in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been declining since the mid-1970s, largely due to poor economic management and civil strife. The situation has been aggravated by the war since 1998 with associated massive population displacements. In 1998, per capita income was estimated at US$110, among the lowest in the world. GNP growth rates of -14.7 percent in 1999 and -5.5 percent in the first semester of 2000 show continuing declines in living conditions. In Kinshasa, 70 p ercent of the population, which is currently estimated at between 6-7 million, cannot afford US$1 a day for food. Chronic malnutrition affects 18 percent of children in the inner city and over 30 percent in the outskirts where war-displaced people have been settling. In reaction to this mounting economic and food security crisis, the Government of DRC requested FAO to send a mission to assess the food situation in the capital city, Kinshasa, and the surrounding provinces of Bas-Congo and Ba ndundu, which supply a significant proportion of the city's food requirements. An assessment of the situation for the whole country could not be undertaken due to the on-going war. -
No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)Technical reportFAO/WFP CROP AND FOOD SUPPLY ASSESSMENT MISSION TO AFGHANISTAN - 2 July 1998 1998
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The Afghan economy has been disrupted by near-continuous civil strife since 1979. The consequent displacement of large numbers of people and massive unemployment have led to extremely low income levels and limited access to food, especially in urban areas. Agriculture has also suffered - from damaged irrigation structures, land mines and from the migration of farmers out of insecure areas. Food production has been affected, and the country has moved from near self-sufficiency in the mid-1970s to heavy dependency on imports (from the USSR in the 1980s and from Pakistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran in the 1990s). Most of the imported food is consumed in the urban areas. Although Afghanistan has been only around 70 percent self-sufficient in cereals during most of this decade, there is evidence of rising production in the last two or three years, as a result of greater security in some areas. Following the 1997 FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission which estimated last ye ar’s national cereal production to be the highest for several years, an FAO/WFP Mission, supported by UNDP, was fielded to Afghanistan from 4-27 May 1998, to estimate the 1998 cereal harvest and cereal import requirements for the 1998/99 marketing year, to ascertain whether the rising trend towards self-sufficiency observed in 1997 was continuing and to assess the regional food situation within the country. Particular attention was to be focused on.
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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureTop 10 species groups in global aquaculture 2023 2025
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No results found.This factsheet presents the top 10 species groups in global aquaculture production for 2023 and features a special section on catfishes which represent freshwater fishes of the order Siluriformes. The full ranking of all 68 species groups is illustrated on the back cover. A comprehensive supplementary factsheet provides more detailed information at regional and national levels, including the methodology used for species grouping and the top 10 producers for each group. -
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Policy briefPolicy briefFood Waste Management in City Region Food System - Sri Lanka
COLOMBO (SRI LANKA) Policy brief
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No results found.About 60% of Sri Lanka’s municipal solid waste (MSW) is generated in its Western Province where the Colombo District contributes half (2100 t/day) and within the district the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) 700 t/day or 10% of the national total. So far, CMC has not embarked on a larger holistic waste management strategy that includes reduce, reuse and recycle (RRR) approaches linking for example with the National Pilisaru project led by the CEA. Alternative locations for landfills are hard to find and there is an urgent need to discuss ways to reduce, recycle, recover and reuse in particular the large fraction of organic (food) waste. Based on stakeholder consultations and available research, it's recommended to 1) Streamline the MSW sector with an empowered umbrella body that coordinates integrating and implementing MSW management; 2) Create an enabling investment climate for private sector engagement in RRR; 3) Create an enabling environment at household level; 4) Link food waste generator and potential user; 5) Introduce by-laws to encourage food waste reduction in canteens and catering.