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| FAOSTAT |
| | FAOSTAT, the FAO statistical database, is an on-line multilingual database currently containing over 3 million time-series records from over 210 countries and territories covering agriculture, nutrition, fisheries, forestry and food aid |
| Food for the Cities |
| | The task of feeding the world's cities adequately constitutes an increasingly pressing challenge, requiring the co-ordinated interaction of food producers, transporters, market operators and a myriad of retail sellers. It also requires constant improvements in the quality of transport and distribution systems. Not least, it involves a shared understanding among city officials and national and international development agencies of the common problems and the potential solutions faced when seeking to feed cities on a sustainable basis.
Jacques Diouf
FAO Director-General
(FAO: The State of Food and Agriculture 1998)
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| Land and Water Development Division |
| | Land-use surveys usually target information that allows one to answer one or more of the following questions concerning the current use of the land
- What? - the purpose of activities undertaken
- Where? - the location
- When? - the temporal aspects of various activities undertaken
- How? - the technologies employed
- How much? - quantitative measures e.g. areas, products
- Why? - the reasons underlying the current land use
Agricultural land-use data are important for many of the regional to global activities currently undertaken by FAO (e.g. the validation of agricultural land evaluation; the preparation of perspective studies on agricultural production and food security; early warning for food security; natural disaster relief operations; farming systems studies; policy formulation). |
| UN-Water |
| | The main purpose of UN-Water is to provide support to Member States in their efforts towards achieving goals, targets and actions agreed by the international community, particularly those contained in the Millennium Development Goals and the Johannesburg Program of Implementation. |
| The FAO Fisheries Global Information System is a network of integrated fisheries information (FIGIS) |
| | The FAO Fisheries Global Information System (FIGIS) is a global Information system on fisheries aimed at providing policy makers with timely, reliable strategic Information on fishery status and trends on a global scale. Designed as a policy-based Information system, it will enable policy makers to make informed decisions about the key challenges of sustainable development, and will support their shifting towards sustainability-centred management by providing them with a single entry point to strategic data, Information, analyses and reviews of fisheries issues and trends. |
| AQUASTAT |
| | AQUASTAT is FAO's global information system on water and agriculture developed by the Land and Water Development Division. It collects, analyses and disseminates data and information by country and by region. Its aim is to provide users interested in global, regional and national analyses with comprehensive information related to water resources and agricultural water management across the world, with emphasis on countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
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| The State of Food Insecurity in the World |
| | The state of food insecurity in the world reports on global and national efforts to reach the goal set by the 1996 World Food Summit: to reduce by half the number of undernourished people in the world by the year 2015. |
| FAO - Research and Extension |
| | This Portal provides a gateway to sound information on research, technology, extension and their linkages in order to enable decision-makers, research institutes, extension services and regulatory bodies, to make informed decisions. |
| Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems - FIVIMS |
| | One of the key steps towards achieving the 1996 World Food Summit goals in the fight against hunger in the world was the establishment of an inter-agency programme to be called Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems (FIVIMS). FIVIMS is now well established and has members representing international and bilateral donors, technical UN agencies and NGOs. The IAWG-FIVIMS is supported by a Secretariat housed in FAO headquarters in Rome (Italy).
At the International level, FIVIMS implements diverse activities in support of national information systems, for them to become part of an international information exchange network.
At the country level, FIVIMS works with a network of information systems that gather and analyze relevant national and subnational data that measure food insecurity and vulnerability.
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| Codex Alimentarius Commission |
| | The main purposes of this Programme are protecting health of the consumers and ensuring fair trade practices in the food trade, and promoting coordination of all food standards work undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations
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| FAOSTAT - Food Balance Sheet |
| | A food balance sheet presents a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply during a specified reference period. The food balance sheet shows for each food item i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption which corresponds to the sources of supply and its utilisation. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilisation side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and other uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per capita supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking in it. Data on per capita food supplies are expressed in terms of quantity and by applying appropriate food composition factors for all primary and processed products also in terms of caloric value, protein and fat content. |
| Forestry Department |
| | The FAO Forestry Web site provides literally thousands of pages of information, access to all of FAO's forest-related databases, detailed country profiles and links to documents on all aspects of forestry. |
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The following text is from Updating the Principles and Methods of Risk Assessment: MRLs for Pesticides and Veterinary Drugs.
Residue de
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The following text is from Updating the Principles and Methods of Risk Assessment: MRLs for Pesticides and Veterinary Drugs.
Residue definition, chemical identity, and physicochemical properties: a residue, defined in the simplest terms, results when a drug or pesticide is deliberately applied to a food producing animal or plant. This differentiates "residues" from "contaminants". The Codex Procedural Manual (CAC, 2005) provides the following definitions:
Contaminant means any substance not intentionally added to food, which is present in such food as a result of the production (including operations carried out in crop husbandry, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine), manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packing, packaging, transport or holding of such food or as a result of environmental contamination. The term does not include insect fragments, rodent hairs and other extraneous matter.
Residues of veterinary drugs include the parent compounds and/or their metabolites in any edible portion of the animal product, and include associated impurities of the veterinary drug concerned.
Pesticide residue means any specified substance in food, agricultural commodities, or animal feed resulting from the use of a pesticide. The term includes any derivatives of a pesticide, such as conversion products, metabolites, reaction products, and impurities considered to be of toxicological significance.
Neither of these definitions of residues includes reference to other substances that may be present as adjuvants in the formulated products, nor to carrier or delivery devices.
The workshop concluded that the definition of a pesticide residue and a veterinary drug residue are essentially the same. The definition for "residues of veterinary drugs" could be made more consistent with the definition for "pesticide residue" by the addition of the phrase "considered to be of toxicological significance".
Published: 12/10/06
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FAO holds several databases on fish species. They are available on the FIGIS Aquatic Species page.
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FAO holds several databases on fish species. They are available on the FIGIS Aquatic Species page.
Published: 12/10/06
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The new FAOSTAT is already available from the FAO website. It comes with complete global coverage, cross-domain integration, a fully refined user
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The new FAOSTAT is already available from the FAO website. It comes with complete global coverage, cross-domain integration, a fully refined user interface and increased data transparency. The following pages provide more information:
Published: 12/10/06
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See the Map on Dietary Energy Consumption (2000/2002) and also FAOSTAT's Sources of Dietary Energy Consumption 2001-2003.
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The Statistics Division holds information on the top 20 commodities exported and imported by country.
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The Statistics Division holds information on the top 20 commodities exported and imported by country.
Published: 12/10/06
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