Learning Services

This section of the portal presents Learning Services which FAO offers in support of capacity development in a wide range of agriculturally-related subject areas at local, national, regional, or global dimensions. Learning services are offered at policy, institutional, and/or individual levels. These services may include training and technical advice, and online learning services.

You may search by Keyword and by Topic. Double click on the green icon to the left of the Topic name for a list of the subjects covered under that Topic:

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Crop production systems management

• Agronomy
• Crop management
• Crop monitoring and forecasting
• Crop production statistics
• Crop production systems
• Crop yield estimates
• Drainage and irrigation
• Farming practices and systems
• Fertilizers
• Fruit production
• Horticulture
• Irrigation systems
• Organic agriculture
• Plant genetic resources and breeding
• Plant legislation
• Plant nutrition
• Plant production and protection
• Plant protection
• Pollination
• Seed production, quality and security
• Soil and soil resources
• Water resources and management

Diseases and pests of animals and plants

• Animal diseases and control
• Bird pests - ornithology
• Ecotoxicology
• Entomology
• Environmental and ecology disease management
• Integrated pest management
• Invasive species
• Pest control
• Pesticide management
• Phytosanitary measures (IPPC)
• Plant health quarantine
• Plant pathology and disease management
• Post harvest pests and diseases
• Weeds

Fisheries and aquaculture management and conservation

• Aquaculture
• Aquaculture and fisheries management
• Aquaculture technology
• Aquatic resource management
• Coastal area management
• Environmental management of aquaculture
• Fish handling and processing technology
• Fish quality assurance
• Fish utilization
• Fisheries and aquaculture
• Fisheries governance
• Fisheries management
• Fisheries management and development planning
• Fisheries policy and planning
• Fisheries technology
• Fishery economics
• Fishery research
• Fishery statistics
• Inland fisheries management
• Institutional development in fisheries
• Rights-based management of fisheries

Food and agriculture policy

• Accounting
• Agricultural and rural legislation
• Agricultural economics and sector analysis
• Agricultural policies
• Agricultural project formulation and evaluation
• Agro-food economics
• Development policy and administration
• Economic modeling
• Economics and policy
• Field programmes management
• Institutional development and planning
• Investment planning and preparation
• Land policy
• Political science
• Project analysis
• Rural employment policies

Forestry management and conservation

• Agroforestry
• Community forestry
• Forest and environment
• Forest assessment and monitoring
• Forest biomass
• Forest fire management
• Forest industry development
• Forest management
• Forest products and services
• Forest protection
• Forest research
• Forest wetlands
• Forestry
• Forestry economics and planning
• Mangroves
• Nature and wildlife conservation
• People and forests
• Protected area management
• Remote sensing
• Secondary tropical forest management
• Urban and peri-urban forestry
• Watershed management
• Wildlife research and management
• Wood energy

Gender and equity in rural societies

• Community based development
• Demography
• Farmers education
• Gender
• HIV/AIDS
• Household resource management
• Inter institutional networking
• Participation
• Poverty vulnerabilities analysis
• Rural and civil society organizations
• Rural disabled
• Rural livelihoods
• Rural social development
• Socio-economic institutional analysis and research

Livestock production systems management

• Animal breeding
• Animal genetic resources and breeding
• Animal health
• Animal nutrition and feeds
• Animal parasitology
• Animal production
• Animal production systems
• Animal products
• Epidemiology, risk analysis
• Livestock management
• Livestock production
• Veterinary science

Nutrition and consumer protection

• Codex alimentarius
• Codex standards
• Community nutrition
• Diet and nutrition
• Dietary intakes and food consumption
• Food additives
• Food composition
• Food industry and processing
• Food legislation
• Food microbiology
• Food production statistics
• Food quality and safety
• Food safety
• Food safety of animal products
• Food science and technology
• Food standards
• Food supply
• Nutrition
• Nutrition education
• Public health

Rural infrastructure and agro-industries

• Agribusiness management
• Agribusiness-Product development
• Agricultural engineering and technology
• Agricultural rural credit and finance
• Agroindustry
• Bioenergy
• Farm management
• Farm planning and surveys
• Food and agricultural engineering
• Food/medicinal insects industries
• Market infrastructure
• Mechanized agriculture environmental impact
• Postharvest technology
• Rural Infrastructure
• Rural energy
• Rural financial services
• Rural institutions

Rural livelihood and food security

• Agricultural extension
• Agricultural meteorology in climate and agriculture
• Agricultural project formulation and evaluation
• Agricultural situation and early warning
• Disaster risk management
• Early warning systems for drought, pests
• Emergency relief and food aid
• Emergency response following natural disasters
• Food security information
• Handling, storage and marketing of horticultural crops
• Household food security and emergency nutrition
• Institutional building, traditional knowledge
• Regional programme for food security
• Rural communications
• Rural development policy
• Rural education
• Rural livelihoods
• Rural radio
• Small-scale enterprise development
• Vulnerability assessment

Sustainable natural resources management

• Agriculture and research system
• Arid and semiarid lands management
• Assessment, monitoring and early warning
• Biodiversity conservation and use
• Biosafety related to plants and seeds
• Biosecurity
• Biotechnology
• Climate change
• Conservation agriculture
• Desertification
• Eco-tourism
• Ecosystems management
• Environmental and natural resources economics
• Environmental assessment
• Environmental data and information
• Environmental legislation
• Environmental management systems
• Environmental policy
• Environmental protection
• Integrated natural resource management
• Land and farm reform
• Land cover and land use
• Land tenure
• Mountain area management
• Multilateral environmental agreements
• Natural resource conservation
• Natural resources assessment and adaptation
• Natural resources management
• Pollution
• Poverty and environment
• Rangeland management
• Remote sensing and geospatial analysis and applications
• Terrestrial ecology
• Terrestrial observations

Trade and marketing

• Agricultural marketing
• Agricultural production, trade and utilization statistics
• Agricultural trade negotiations
• Commodity research
• Econometrics and statistical modelling
• International commercial transactions
• International trade agreements
• Labour market analysis
• Marketing
• Marketing statistics
• Monetary valuation of environmental assets
• Retail food trade

Other technical areas (agriculture management and support)

• Administration
• Agricultural research and extension
• Geographic information systems and remote sensing
• Governance
• Human resources management
• Information management and systems
• Law, legislation and legal instruments
• Libraries
• Project analysis and management
• Public information
• Statistics;Terminology
• Training and capacity building