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Book (series)GuidelineCaracterización de peligros de patógenos en los alimentos y el agua. Directrices. Serie de Evaluación de Riesgos Microbiológicos (MRA) 3 2004La evaluación de riesgos microbiológicos (ERM) es un nuevo instrumento para el análisis de la inocuidad de los suministros de alimentos y de agua. La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO) y la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) desempeñan una función central en la elaboración y normalización de la ERM a nivel internacional, a fin de informar acerca de la gestión de riesgos en los alimentos tanto en el ámbito nacional como internacional. La elaborac ión de directrices, como éstas sobre la Caracterización de peligros de patógenos en los alimentos y el agua, son importantes en la realización de estas tareas. Las directrices están orientadas sobre todo a una audiencia multidisciplinar, que interviene directamente en la elaboración y el examen de documentos relativos a la ERM a nivel internacional o nacional. También serán útiles para los gestores de riesgos que basan sus decisiones en los resultados de la evaluación de riesgos y deben conoce r los principios y postulados subyacentes que respaldan estas evaluaciones.
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Book (stand-alone)Manual / guideCodex Alimentarius - Higiene de los Alimentos (Textos básicos) - Cuarta edición 2009La Comisión del Codex Alimentarius es un órgano intergubernamental que integran más de 180 miembros, creado en el marco del Programa Conjunto sobre Normas Alimentarias que establecieron la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO) y la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) con el objetivo de proteger la salud de los consumidores y asegurar prácticas equitativas en el comercio de alimentos. La Comisión también promueve la coordinación de todos lo s trabajos sobre normas alimentarias emprendidos por las organizaciones internacionales gubernamentales y no gubernamentales. El resultado principal del trabajo de la Comisión, el Codex Alimentarius («código de alimentos» en latín), es un compendio de normas alimentarias, directrices, códigos de prácticas y otras recomendaciones adoptados internacionalmente. Los textos que contiene la presente publicación forman parte del Codex Alimentarius. Los textos básicos del Codex sobre higiene de los alimentos permiten entender de qué manera se formulan y aplican las reglas y reglamentos en materia de higiene de los alimentos. Los Principios generales de higiene de los alimentos abarcan las prácticas de higiene desde la producción primaria hasta el consumidor final, destacando los controles de higiene básicos que se efectúan en cada etapa. Esta publicación también contiene la descripción más utilizada a nivel internacional del Sistema de análisis de peligros y de puntos c ríticos de control (HACCP): Directrices para su aplicación. Esta cuarta edición incluye los textos adoptados por la Comisión del Codex Alimentarius hasta 2009. Resultará de utilidad a las autoridades gubernamentales, las industrias alimentarias y a todos los manipuladores de alimentos, así como a los consumidores, y a los docentes y estudiantes de higiene de los alimentos.
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Book (series)Manual / guideBuenas prácticas para la industria de la carne 2004En años recientes se ha despertado el interés público en torno a la inocuidad alimentaria de origen animal, debido a los problemas que han surgido con la encefalopatía espongiforme bovina (BSE), así como con brotes de infecciones bacterianas y la contaminación de alimentos con agentes tóxicos (por ejemplo, dioxinas). Estos problemas tienen serias implicaciones en la seguridad alimentaria nacional, en el desarrollo de industrias de productos de origen animal y para el comercio internacion al. El propósito de este Manual de Buenas Prácticas para la Industria de la Carne, es proveer con información detallada y actualizada, así como una guía práctica para la implementación de un nuevo Código de Prácticas de Higiene para la Carne, cuando sea adoptado por la Comisión del Codex Alimentarius. La publicación tiene la intención de guiar a los responsables de los mataderos y de la industria cárnica. Esto también será de valiosa ayuda a los veterinarios involucrados en la inspecci ón de carne, con sus funciones supervisoras en la higiene de la carne.
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Book (stand-alone)High-profileThe status of women in agrifood systems 2023The status of women in agrifood systems report uses extensive new data and analyses to provide a comprehensive picture of women’s participation, benefits, and challenges they face working in agrifood systems globally. The report shows how increasing women’s empowerment and gender equality in agrifood systems enhances women’s well-being and the well-being of their households, creating opportunities for economic growth, greater incomes, productivity and resilience.The report comes more than a decade after the publication of the State of food and agriculture (SOFA) 2010–11: Women in agriculture – Closing the gender gap for development. SOFA 2010–11 documented the tremendous costs of gender inequality not only for women but also for agriculture and the broader economy and society, making the business case for closing existing gender gaps in accessing agricultural assets, inputs and services. Moving beyond agriculture, The status of women in agrifood systems reflects not only on how gender equality and women’s empowerment are central to the transition towards sustainable and resilient agrifood systems but also on how the transformation of agrifood systems can contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the available evidence on gender equality and women’s empowerment in agrifood systems that has been produced over the last decade. The report also provides policymakers and development actors with an extensive review of what has worked, highlighting the promise of moving from closing specific gender gaps towards the adoption of gender-transformative approaches that explicitly address the formal and informal structural constraints to equality. It concludes with specific recommendations on the way forward. Last update 03/08/2023
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Book (stand-alone)Technical bookThinking about the future of food safety
A foresight report
2022Also available in:
Agrifood systems are undergoing a transformation with the aim to provide safer, more affordable, and healthier diets for all, produced in a sustainable manner while delivering just and equitable livelihoods: a key to achieving the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, this transformation needs to be executed in the global context of major challenges facing the food and agriculture sectors, with drivers such as climate change, population growth, urbanization, and natural resources depletion compounding these challenges.Food safety is a keystone to agrifood systems and all food safety actors need to keep pace with the ongoing transformation while preparing to navigate the potential threats, disruptions, and challenges that may arise. Foresight in food safety facilitates the proactive identification of drivers and related trends, both within and outside agrifood systems, that have implications for food safety and therefore also for consumer health, the national economy, and international trade. Early identification and evaluation of drivers and trends promote strategic planning and preparedness to take advantage of emerging opportunities and address challenges in food safety.In this publication, the FAO Food Safety Foresight programme provides an overview of the major global drivers and trends by describing their implications for food safety in particular and for agrifood systems by extrapolation. The various drivers and trends reported include climate change, changing consumer behaviour and preferences, new food sources and production systems, technological advances, microbiome, circular economy, food fraud, among others. The intended audience for this publication is broad – from the policymakers, academia, food business operators, private sector, to all of us, the consumers. -
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.