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ProjectFactsheetCapacity Building and Policy Support to Livestock and Dairy Development in Bangladesh - UTF/BGD/079/BGD 2024
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No results found.A World Bank-supported study (2016) in Bangladesh revealed that the livestock and fisheries subsectors were underexploited despite being vital drivers of agricultural growth. The Department of Livestock Services (DLS) received USD 500 million from the World Bank to implement the Livestock and Dairy Development Project, designed to target all main livestock value chains in the country. To assist the LDDP, the government requested technical assistance from FAO. The aim of the FAO project was to increase resilient and inclusive agroeconomic growth through strategies and best practices that diversify agricultural production and enhance productivity. Specifically, it would provide technical and methodological advice, coaching and mentoring to the LDDP staff responsible for the day-to-day implementation of the LDPP and the development of specific products and deliverables. -
ProjectFactsheetSupporting Investments in Low Carbon and Resilient Livestock Development in Africa - GCP/GLO/362/WBK 2023
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No results found.By 2050, the world’s population is projected to reach 9.8 billion, representing an increase of nearly one-third more than today’s population. Over half of this projected population growth is expected to take place in Africa, particularly in sub-Saharan countries. Much of the world’s additional food demand will originate in these areas, with demand for animal source foods driven by growing urban populations with increasing incomes. Livestock help to combat hunger and malnourishment in areas where higher infant mortality correlates with greater protein and critical micro-nutrient deficiencies. At the same time, livestock are both a driver of, and vulnerable to, climate change. The contribution of the region to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is relatively limited; however, in many sub-Saharan countries, livestock is among the sectors with most GHG emissions. Sub-Saharan Africa is also one of the regions where livestock production is most vulnerable to climate change. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach to managing landscapes, agroprocessing and food supply chains that enables the food system to meet both the climate challenge and deliver climate solutions. Large-scale World Bank (WB) investments targeted at the livestock sector provide an opportunity to make transformative changes for climate-smart and sustainable livestock development. The aim of the project was thus to provide technical assistance, training and tools to World Bank project teams to enable them to enhance and assess the contribution of selected country operations to the three climate-smart livestock (CSL) ‘pillars’: productivity, climate change adaptation and climate change mitigation. -
DocumentEvaluation reportFinal Evaluation of the Project “Building a Global Agenda of Action in Support of Sustainable Livestock Sector Development” Annex 1
GCP /GLO/360/MUL
2018Also available in:
No results found.Is sustainable livestock production possible, and if so, what does it look like? Livestock sector is at the center of climate and environmental issues, and plays a major role in poverty reduction and food security and nutrition. In 2011 FAO began hosting a participatory multi-stakeholder initiative to address these issues, which currently brings together 105 member organizations from Academia, Donors, International Organizations, NGOs, Public Sector, Private Sector and Social Movements, as well as producer organizations. The Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock aims at being a unique forum to share good practices and build consensus towards shaping sustainable livestock production and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals. In 2018 the evaluation of this project found significant value and progress towards these objectives, in the form of increased interaction and participation and indications of new practices and policies being implemented by members. Continuing such dialogue is crucial to achieve sustainability, and should go along with collecting evidence and good practices from members. Sustainability is an urgent and critical issue and should be treated with the highest importance.
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DocumentOther documentGlobal trade statistical update - Small Pelagics
FAO GLOBEFISH, April 2019
2019Also available in:
No results found.This update focuses on trends in trade flows for the major product groups and most important traders using the most recently available data. Data is sourced from the relevant trade statistics agency of the respective reporting country or territory. Due to differences in reporting lag, global level data will exclude any trade that had not been reported by the relevant reporting body as of the last month specified for year-to-date aggregation. Product groups are aggregated at the 6-digit Harmonized System (HS) level and will exclude any trade that is reported under other 6-digit HS codes whose commodity descriptions are insufficiently specific. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical studyDeep-ocean climate change impacts on habitat, fish and fisheries
FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper No. 638
2019Also available in:
No results found.This publication presents the outcome of a meeting between the FAO/UNEP ABNJ Deep-seas and Biodiversity project and the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative. It focuses on the impacts of climatic changes on demersal fisheries, and the interactions of these fisheries with other species and vulnerable marine ecosystems. Regional fisheries management organizations rely on scientific information to develop advice to managers. In recent decades, climate change has been a focus largely as a unidirectional forcing over decadal timescales. However, changes can occur abruptly when critical thresholds are crossed. Moreover, distribution changes are expected as populations shift from existing to new areas. Hence, there is a need for new monitoring programmes to help scientists understand how these changes affect productivity and biodiversity. The principal cause of climate change is rising greenhouse gases and other compounds in the atmosphere that trap heat causing global warming, leading to deoxygenation and acidification in the oceans. Three-dimensional fully coupled earth system models are used to predict the extent of these changes in the deep oceans at 200–2500 m depth. Trends in changes are identified in many variables, including temperature, pH, oxygen and supply of particulate organic carbon (POC). Regional differences are identified, indicating the complexity of the predictions. The response of various fish and invertebrate species to these changes in the physical environment are analysed using hazard and suitability modelling. Predictions are made to changes in distributions of commercial species, though in practice the processes governing population abundance are poorly understood in the deep-sea environment, and predicted -
ProjectFactsheetBuilding Sustainable Tropical Fruit Value Chains Globally - GCP/GLO/022/GER 2021
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No results found.The tropical fruit sector is very important in many developing countries, as it provides incomes and jobs for hundreds of thousands of farmers and other workers, contributing to the enhancement of livelihoods and food security in these countries. In addition, tropical fruit exports generate substantial earnings for several developing countries, and their unit value is the highest among fruits and vegetables. Tropical fruits are also part of a healthy diet for millions of people. Despite its importance, the sector faces significant sustainability issues (environmental, economic and social), which have been compounded by the impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19) pandemic. This project was formulated to mitigate these issues by fostering the development of more sustainable and responsible tropical fruit value chains though multistakeholder engagement. The project will initially prioritize work with the private sector (companies, trade associations and producer organizations) due to its central role in these value chains. This includes facilitating collaboration between relevant actors and capacity development activities to strengthen producer organizations and other private sector actors so that they may participate actively in the development of these value chains.