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NewsletterNewsletterFAO Liaison Office Newsletter, December 2017, Issue #2
Now from North America
2018Also available in:
No results found.The December 2017, Issue #2 of the FAO Liaison Office for North America newsletter, Now from North America highlights the World Antibiotic Awareness Week; Canadian perspectives on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report; and the important role of pollinators. It also introduced the Tax Unit, news from FAO headquarters, upcoming events and the latest publications. -
NewsletterNewsletterFAO Liaison Office Newsletter, July 2018 - Issue #9
Now from North America
2018Also available in:
No results found.The July 2018 Newsletter of the FAO Liaison Office for North America highlights a roundtable co-hosted with CARE Canada in Ottawa on the importance of empowering and investing in women in agriculture, a roundtable with GAIN highlighting the need to integrate biofortification into agriculture policies and programs, as well an EcoAgriculture - FAO North America event which examined the critical role of property rights in integrated landscape management. Further highlights in July include a Congressional Briefing with the Alliance to End Hunger and the Senate Hunger Caucus which critically analyzed the role of research and technology in paving way for better nutritional outcomes, and a collaboration with the Danish Embassy to highlight the issue of global food loss and waste with a screening of the movie “Wasted – the Story of Food Waste”. Furthermore, the newsletter features CARE Canada in the partner corner, global highlights from FAO and three new flagship publications on forests, fisheries and a global agricultural outlook. -
NewsletterNewsletterFAO Liaison Office Newsletter, November 2018 - Issue #11
Now from North America
2018Also available in:
No results found.This special World Food Day issue of the FAO Liaison Office for North America Newsletter features the first-of-its-kind Poetry Contest, and messages from U.S. and Canadian dignitaries on the importance of FAO and World Food Day. It also includes insights on the World Food Prize, Planet Forward Students at CFS 45, Canadian Perspectives on Migration and Climate Change, and the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the world.
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Book (stand-alone)Corporate general interestPulses: nutritious seeds for a sustainable future 2016
The aim of raising global awareness on the multitude of benefits of pulses was integral to the International Year of Pulses. This coffee table book is part guide and part cookbook— informative without being technical. The book begins by giving an overview of pulses, and explains why they are an important food for the future. It also has more than 30 recipes prepared by some of the most prestigious chefs in the world and is peppered with infographics. Part I gives an overview of pulses and giv es a brief guide to the main varieties in the world. Part II explains step-by-step how to cook them, what to keep in mind and what condiments and instruments to use. Part III underscores the five messages that FAO conveys to the world about the impact pulses have on nutrition, health, climate change, biodiversity and food security. Part IV illustrates how pulses can be grown in a garden patch with easy gardening instructions and how they are grown in the world, highlighting major world producers , importers and exporters. Part V takes the reader on a journey around the world showing how pulses fit a region’s history and culture and visits 10 internationally acclaimed chefs as they go the market to buy pulses. Back at their restaurant or home, each chef prepares easy dishes and gives their best kept secrets. Each chef provides 3 recipes that are beautifully illustrated.
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Book (stand-alone)High-profileState of knowledge of soil biodiversity - Status, challenges and potentialities
Report 2020
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No results found.There is increasing attention to the importance of biodiversity for food security and nutrition, especially above-ground biodiversity such as plants and animals. However, less attention is being paid to the biodiversity beneath our feet, soil biodiversity, which drives many processes that produce food or purify soil and water. This report is the result of an inclusive process involving more than 300 scientists from around the world under the auspices of the FAO’s Global Soil Partnership and its Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative, and the European Commission. It presents concisely the state of knowledge on soil biodiversity, the threats to it, and the solutions that soil biodiversity can provide to problems in different fields. It also represents a valuable contribution to raising awareness of the importance of soil biodiversity and highlighting its role in finding solutions to today's global threats. -
Book (series)FlagshipThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020
Transforming food systems for affordable healthy diets
2020Updates for many countries have made it possible to estimate hunger in the world with greater accuracy this year. In particular, newly accessible data enabled the revision of the entire series of undernourishment estimates for China back to 2000, resulting in a substantial downward shift of the series of the number of undernourished in the world. Nevertheless, the revision confirms the trend reported in past editions: the number of people affected by hunger globally has been slowly on the rise since 2014. The report also shows that the burden of malnutrition in all its forms continues to be a challenge. There has been some progress for child stunting, low birthweight and exclusive breastfeeding, but at a pace that is still too slow. Childhood overweight is not improving and adult obesity is on the rise in all regions.The report complements the usual assessment of food security and nutrition with projections of what the world may look like in 2030, if trends of the last decade continue. Projections show that the world is not on track to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 and, despite some progress, most indicators are also not on track to meet global nutrition targets. The food security and nutritional status of the most vulnerable population groups is likely to deteriorate further due to the health and socio economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.The report puts a spotlight on diet quality as a critical link between food security and nutrition. Meeting SDG 2 targets will only be possible if people have enough food to eat and if what they are eating is nutritious and affordable. The report also introduces new analysis of the cost and affordability of healthy diets around the world, by region and in different development contexts. It presents valuations of the health and climate-change costs associated with current food consumption patterns, as well as the potential cost savings if food consumption patterns were to shift towards healthy diets that include sustainability considerations. The report then concludes with a discussion of the policies and strategies to transform food systems to ensure affordable healthy diets, as part of the required efforts to end both hunger and all forms of malnutrition.