This section of the site is devoted to the major featured websites developed by the division in support of its programme of work. In several cases this involves collaboration with external institutions or networks of experts…

INPhO, the Information Network on Pos-Harvest Operations was designed by FAO with the support and collaboration of GTZ and CIRAD. The main objective is to increase the development of activities of the global post- harvest sector for tropical agricultural products for a better access to technical data and an exchange of information among the different post harvest actors..

Conservation Agriculture (CA) aims to conserve, improve and make more efficient use of natural resources through integrated management of available soil, water and biological resources combined with external inputs. It contributes to environmental conservation as well as to enhanced and sustained agricultural production. It can also be referred to as resource-efficient / resource effective agriculture..

FAO's initiative for "Food Supply and Distribution to Cities" addresses the relationship between urbanization, urban poverty and food insecurity. It focuses on the impact of urbanisation on the efficiency of food supply and distribution activities and the need to stimulate private-sector initiatives and investment..

Small farmers produce much of the developing world's food. Yet they are generally much poorer than the rest of the population in these countries, and are less food secure than even the urban poor. Furthermore, although rapid urbanisation is taking place in many developing countries, farming populations in 2030 will not be much smaller than they are today. For the foreseeable future, therefore, dealing with poverty and hunger in much of the world means confronting the problems that small farmers and their families face in their daily struggle for survival..