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ProjectFactsheetFarmers’ Market-Safe Horticultural Crop Production in Peri-Urban Areas and Marketing in Dhaka City to Mitigate the Impact of COVID-19 Crisis - TCP/BGD/3807 2024
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No results found.In Bangladesh, the agriculture sector contributed in 2022 to around 11.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), with 60 percent of the workforce engaged directly or indirectly in agriculture 1. The Government of Bangladesh, in pursuit of its objectives outlined in the Seventh Five Year Plan (7YFP) 2016-2020, is dedicated to advancing the shift in agriculture from semi-subsistence farming to commercialization, focusing on enhancing productivity, expanding diversity, adding value, improving food safety and quality and streamlining processing methods. -
ProjectFactsheetSupporting Intensive Vegetable Production in Selected Urban and Peri Urban Areas to Mitigate the Impact of COVID-19 Crisis - TCP/BHU/3801 2023
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No results found.The COVID 19 pandemic had important consequences on international trade and food supply chains, which were all the more damaging for countries with import driven economies, such as Bhutan Reliable food provision and economic prospects in Bhutan were hindered by the sudden isolated situation in which the country found itself In particular, the quality and quantity of fresh vegetables, fruits and meat imports were in peril, given the long queues of trucks at the border with India In addition, Bhutan’s tourism and hospitality sector, an important part of its economy, was hit hard by the COVID 19 pandemic, which caused rising unemployment rates, especially in cities, where 77 percent of residents work in the services sector To face the agricultural and economic challenges related to the pandemic, the Government requested the support of FAO to enhance intensive urban and peri urban farming practices and provide greater economic and food security for the population The project was set up to develop urban and peri urban agriculture in 65 converted acres of land, developing the agriculture capacity of young people and laid off employees from the tourism and hospitality sector to produce and supply vegetables to urban markets and ensure alternative streams of income. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureThe future of livestock in Burkina Faso. Emerging Public Health Threats in Urban and Peri-urban Areas 2020
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No results found.The brief summarizes a livestock scenario report published by the FAO and the government of Burkina Fao on the unexepected consequences of the anticipated long-term growth and transformation of the livestock sector in the country. The brief stresses that, in the coming decades, growth of livestock may generate major public health threats in and around growing urban areas, including through outbreaks and spread of zoonotic diseases and antimicrobial resistance.
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BookletHigh-profileFAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022–2031 2022The FAO Strategy on Climate Change 2022–2031 was endorsed by FAO Council in June 2022. This new strategy replaces the previous strategy from 2017 to better FAO's climate action with the Strategic Framework 2022-2031, and other FAO strategies that have been developed since then. The Strategy was elaborated following an inclusive process of consultation with FAO Members, FAO staff from headquarters and decentralized offices, as well as external partners. It articulates FAO's vision for agrifood systems by 2050, around three main pillars of action: at global and regional level, at country level, and at local level. The Strategy also encourages key guiding principles for action, such as science and innovation, inclusiveness, partnerships, and access to finance.
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Book (stand-alone)Technical studyInbreeding and brood stock management. 1999
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No results found.This manual, written for extension workers, aquaculturists, and those who work with natural resource management programmes, primarily deals with the problems caused by unwanted inbreeding in cultured fish populations and describes management techniques that can be used to prevent or minimize inbreeding. The manual also describes how inbreeding can be used to improve captive populations of fish. The manual contains chapters on: basic genetics and the genetics of inbreeding; how to determine indiv idual inbreeding values when pedigrees are known; how to determine the average inbreeding value in a population when pedigrees are not known; genetic drift, which is random changes in gene frequency; how inbreeding programmes can be used to improve cultured populations of food fish; how to prevent inbreeding depression and loss of genetic variance in farmed populations; and recommendations on how to manage cultured populations of fish to prevent unwanted inbreeding and genetic drift from depress ing productivity, profits, and survival. One of the most important aspects of managing a closed population of fish at a fish farm or fish culture station is the management of the population's effective breeding number, because inbreeding is inversely related to the effective breeding number. Techniques to determine and manage the effective breeding number are described, and recommended minimum effective breeding numbers are provided for a variety of farm sizes and fish culture goals. A number of culture techniques can affect inbreeding, and ways to modify them so there is minimal impact on inbreeding are discussed. Finally, ways to minimize inbreeding during selective breeding programmes are described. -
BookletCorporate general interestEmissions due to agriculture
Global, regional and country trends 2000–2018
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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.