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DocumentFAO in partnerships for Caribbean food security
Issue brief 8, April 2014
2014Also available in:
No results found.The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is tasked with an ambitious mandate as outlined in its five new Strategic Objectives - to help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition; make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable; reduce rural poverty; enable inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems; increase the resilience of livelihoods to disasters. FAO recognizes that no single entity can undertake the mammoth task of eradicating hunger on its own and has placed partnerships at the very heart of its operations. Strategic partnerships are a critical means to achieving results allowing FAO to mobilize the best available knowledge and capacities in working toward common goals. Alongside natural alliances with other UN agencies, FAO welcomes the opportunity to work with bi-lateral donor agencies, development banks, regional organizations, civil society organizations, producers organizations and cooperatives, academic and re search institutions and the private sector. These relations are governed by strategic documents developed in 2013 to provide practical guidance to both FAO and its prospective partners to ensure the best possible outcomes. -
Book (series)Laudato si’
Sobre el Cuidado de la Casa Común On care for our Common Home
2016Also available in:
No results found.The name of the text, Laudato si’, published on 18 June 2015, recalls the phrase that begins the “Canticle of Creatures” by St. Francis Assisi, patron saint of creation, the poor and peace. That is the reason he adopted the name Francis after being elected pontiff. At the presentation at FAO headquarters on 27 October 2015 joining the Director General of FAO, José Graziano da Silva, were Laurence Argimon Pistre, Permanent Representative of the European Union in the agencies of the United Nation s Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome; Monsignor Fernando Chica Arellano, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the agencies of the United Nations Food and Agriculture in Rome, Cardinals Jean-Louis Tauran, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. -
Book (stand-alone)The State of Food and Agriculture 2016 (SOFA): Climate change, agriculture and food security 2016
The 2016 SOFA report presents evidence on today and tomorrow’s impact of climate change on agriculture and food systems. The report assesses the options to make agriculture and food systems resilient to climate change impacts, while minimizing environmental impacts. It shows that making agriculture and food systems sustainable is both economically and technically feasible. However barriers to the adoption of appropriate technologies and management practices will have to be lowered, especially for smallholder farmers and women farmers amongst them. Likewise, an overhaul is needed of agricultural and food policies to shift incentives in favour of investments, worldwide, in sustainable technologies and practices.
The following complementary information is available :
- Read the In-Brief summary of the full report.
- Read the Flyer.
- See the Infographic - Mitigation
- See the Infographic - Adaptation
- Visit the SOFA webpage. Purchase a print copy.
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