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ProjectFactsheetSupport to Enhance Food Security and Nutrition and Encourage Healthy Eating Habits of Rural Communities in Papua New Guinea Through Piloting School Meal Programme - TCP/PNG/3805 2025
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No results found.Papua New Guinea faces significant challenges with child malnutrition, including high rates of stunting, wasting, and obesity, linked to widespread food insecurity. In March 2021, the Comprehensive Health and Epidemiological Surveillance System reported a 13.8 percent wasting rate in children under five, much higher than the global average of 5.5 percent. Stunting and overweight rates are also alarmingly high at 46.5 percent and 29 percent, respectively, the highest in the Pacific region. Malnutrition, a pressing issue beyond the health sector's scope, hinders children's growth and brain development, leading to long-term negative effects on cognitive ability, academic performance, productivity, and future earnings. Poor diets are the root cause of all types of malnutrition, with its incidence varying by region and household income. The 2016-2026 National Nutrition Policy of Papua New Guinea identifies various causes of malnutrition, and stresses the need for a comprehensive, evidence-based strategy to address the issue, proposing a multi-sectoral approach with seven key objectives to improve nutrition for all Papua New Guineans. -
ProjectFactsheetNational Food Security Policy in Papua New Guinea - TCP/PNG/3602 2019
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No results found.Malnutrition continues to be a serious issue in Papua New Guinea, imposing considerable social and economic costs on individuals, families, communities and the economy as a whole, and disproportionately affectingsuch disadvantaged groups as women and children. As a United Nations Member State, the country is committed to ending hunger, achieving foodsecurity, improving nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture by 2030. FAO assisted the Government to formulate a new National Food Security Policy (NFSP) Framework for 2017-2027 to strengthen food and nutrition security in the future. However, the capacity to formulate an action planto facilitate the implementation of the new policy was lacking. The Government therefore requested FAO to help to build national capacityin this important area. The project supported the development of acomprehensive budgeted action plan to enable the Government to roll outthe new NFSP Framework to the relevant sectorial agencies and local governments, as a follow-up to the policy formulation phase. It also builtcapacity and raised awareness at national and provincial levels, andsupported the preparation of provincial food security priority action agendasfor three pilot provinces. -
ProjectFactsheetBuilding the Food Security Resilience of Communities in Papua New Guinea - TCP/PNG/3503 2019
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No results found.The 2015-2016 El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean affected Papua New Guinea in the form of drought and frost. The lack of sustained rainfall and the repeated frost event resulted in a decrease in production from food gardens and therefore reduced the availability of food. The Government estimated that 2.4 million people were affected by drought and frost, 1.3 million of them severely. The major constraints included reduced access to clean drinking water and water availability for agriculture activities, reduced food availability and accessibility of food, a reduction in the number of meals to one per day in the most affected areas and crop losses and increased cases of plant diseases, leading to a lack of planting materials. As a result, there was a need for overall coordination of food security activities at national and provincial level and food security monitoring and planting material for farmers (drought tolerant crops and early-maturing varieties).
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Book (stand-alone)Technical bookRussian Federation: Meat sector review
Country highlights prepared under the FAO/EBRD Cooperation
2014Also available in:
World food demand has seen massive changes, including a shift from staple foods to animal proteins and vegetable oils. In the short to medium term, this trend in global food demand will continue. There will be an increased demand for vegetable oils, meat, sugar, dairy products and livestock feed made from coarse grains and oilseed meals. There are numerous mid-term forecasts for the Russian Federation’s meat sector. Most of them agree on the following trends: (i) the consumption of poultry and p ork meat will increase; (ii) the consumption of beef will decrease or stabilize; and (iii) the Russian Federation will remain a net importer of meat on the world market. According to OECD and FAO projections, meat imports from the Russian Federation will decrease from 3 to 1.3 million tonnes, owing to an anticipated growth in domestic chicken meat and pork production. The country’s share in global meat imports is anticipated to decrease from 12 percent in 2006–2010, to 4 percent in 2021. While t he Russian Federation will continue to play an important role in the international meat market, it will fall from its position as the largest meat importing country in 2006–2010 to the fourth largest global meat importer by 2021, behind Japan, sub-Saharan African countries, and Saudi Arabia. -
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. -
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.