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Manual for the preparation and sale of fruits and vegetables. From field to market
By: Andrés F. López Camelo The fruit and vegetable production sector of Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Eastern Europe is facing a new situation where, on the one hand, supermarket chains account for an increasing percentage of the domestic food retail market and, on the other hand, producers must compete in an increasingly demanding global market for non traditional and off-season fruits and vegetables. Producers with the necessary financial, management and technological skills are already meeting the new challenges; however, small farmers are increasingly being marginalized and will be facing unequal market conditions unless they are able to change their practices to meet the needs of a modern food marketing system. Regardless of the production system, the technological challenge is to increase returns through the rational use of available resources, reducing production costs and post-harvest losses, enhancing competitiveness and adding value to the final product. On the basis of these principles, this manual analyses the techniques for reducing post-harvest losses and ensuring quality and food safety from harvest to consumption. The new concept of quality involves ensuring total quality for increasing competitiveness and providing produce that better satisfies the demands of food retailers and, ultimately, the consumers.
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Trypanotolerant livestock in the context of trypanosomiasis intervention strategies
By: Kwaku Agyemang Trypanosomiasis poses a considerable constraint on livestock-agricultural development in tsetse-infested areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Many efforts to limit or eradicate trypanosomiasis have failed or have had limited success. However, in certain areas of West Africa, livestock production remains possible, despite the presence of tsetse fly, through the use of cattle and small ruminant breeds that are tolerant to the disease. This paper provides an overview of the problem and the various options for its control. Emphasis is placed on the definition of the role of trypanotolerant livestock as an integrated approach to control the disease.
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General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean. Report of the seventh session of the Scientific Advisory Committee. Rome, 19-22 October 2004
FAO Fisheries Report No. 763 The Committee reviewed work by its subcommittees during the intersessional period, appraised scientific activities, formulated advice on fishery management and identified complementary research needs. It agreed on its workplan for 2005. In particular, SAC emphasized the need to ensure the availability of more scientific contributions, data and analysis, as well as a greater coverage of GFCM Geographical Sub-Areas.
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Management of large pelagic fisheries in CARICOM countries
By: Robin Mahon, Patrick McConney Large pelagic fish are important to the small-scale, commercial and recreational fisheries in many Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries. They are seen as an area with potential for growth. As most are transboundary, their management requires collaboration among countries in the context of international fisheries agreements. The FAO Technical Cooperation Programme project described in this report sought to assist CARICOM countries in formulating an approach to the development and management of large pelagic fisheries. The approach involved two thrusts, addressing each group of large pelagics: oceanic and coastal. The project compiled and reviewed a wide range of material on large pelagic fisheries in the Caribbean. This included status of resources, fishery harvest and post-harvest sectors, status of national and regional management initiatives and the extent to which countries are engaged in international management activities such as those undertaken by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT).
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Report of the FAO Regional Workshop on the Elaboration of National Plans of Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing - Southeast Asia Subregion. Penang, Malaysia, 10-14 October 2004
FAO Fisheries Report No. 757 The purpose of the Workshop was to assist countries in Southeast Asia, People's Republic of China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, to develop capacity so that they would be better placed to elaborate National Plans of Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (NPOAs-IUU). The Workshop addressed the 2001 International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IPOA-IUU) in detail and the Technical Guidelines that have been developed to support the implementation of the IPOA-IUU; concepts of planning and the elaboration of action plans; a case study for the development of a NPOA-IUU; decision-making about IUU fishing and skills enhancement through the identification of key issues relating to NPOAs-IUU, the primary vehicle by which the IPOA-IUU will be implemented by countries. Working groups were formed to encourage maximum participation in the Workshop. A review of the major IUU fishing problems in the region and their possible solutions were discussed.
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Compendium of food additive specifications. Addendum 12
FAO Food and Nutrition Paper No. 52 Add. 12 This document is one of three publications prepared by the sixty-third session of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), held in Geneva, Switzerland, in June 2004, and dedicated to the evaluation of food additives. The report of the meeting will be published in the WHO Technical Report Series and the toxicological monographs in the WHO Food Additives Series. Specifications of certain food additives in this document provide information on their identity and purity. The three main objectives of these specifications are to identify the substance that has been subject to biological testing, to ensure that the substance is of the quality required for safe use in food and to reflect and encourage good manufacturing practice. This publication will be useful to all those who work with or are interested in food additives and their safe use in food
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Family Nutrition Guide
By: Anne Burgess, Peter Glasauer The Family Nutrition Guide is a practical guide that aims to improve the feeding and nutrition of families in developing countries. It is primarily written for health workers, nutritionists, agricultural extensionists or other development workers who design nutrition education materials and activities and work with people at community level. It should also be useful to mothers or other caregivers who want to know more about family feeding, as well as anyone training health staff and other community-level workers. Topics cover basic nutrition, family food security, meal planning, food hygiene and the special feeding needs of children, women and men, and old, sick and malnourished people. The nutrition facts for each topic are complemented by communication suggestions for peoples working directly with families and community group.
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Foods derived from biotechnology. Codex Alimentarius Commission. Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme
Rome, 2004, 58 pp. The Codex Alimentarius Commission at its twenty-sixth session in 2003 adopted overarching principles on the risk analysis of foods derived from modern biotechnology and guidelines for food safety assessment of foods derived from recombinant-DNA plants or produced using recombinant-DNA micro-organisms. This compact volume contains these adopted texts to promote wide use and understanding of the risk analysis process of food derived from modern biotechnology by governments, food industries and consumers.
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Commission générale des pêches pour la Méditerranée. Rapport de la septième session du Comité scientifique consultatif. Rome, 19-22 octobre 2004
FAO, Rapport sur les pêches nº 763 Le Comité a passé en revue les tâches effectuées par ses sous-comités pendant la période intersession, a évalué leurs activités scientifiques, formulé des avis sur l'aménagement des pêcheries et identifié les besoins de recherche afférente. Il a convenu d'un programme de travail pour l'année 2005. Plus particulièrement, le Comité a souligné le besoin de garantir la disponibilité d'un nombre plus important de contributions scientifiques, de données et analyses et de s'assurer une meilleure couverture scientifique de toutes les zones géographiques sous-régionales de la CGPM.
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Économie mondiale du tabac, (L'). Un choix d'études de cas
Etudes FAO sur les produits de base nº 2 La FAO partage l'inquiétude internationale concernant les effets nuisibles du tabagisme et l'incidence croissante des maladies liées à l'usage du tabac qui, parallèlement aux dommages personnels et sociaux, entraînent également des pertes économiques et ce, non seulement dans les pays développés mais dans les pays en développement aussi où la consommation continue de s'accroître. Le présent volume est le deuxième à être publié dans le cadre du projet Tobacco Supply, Demand and Trade by 2010 : Policy options and ajustment. Le présent volume se propose d'étudier de plus près l'économie du tabac dans un certain nombre de pays choisis. Ces études portent en particulier sur les effets éventuels qu'une contraction de la demande mondiale pourrait avoir sur les conditions économiques, les gains et la sécurité alimentaire des communautés agricoles dans les pays en développement qui sont particulièrement tributaires de la production de tabac pour leur subsistance.
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Aliments dérivés des biotechnologies. Commision du Codex Alimentarius. Programme mixte FAO/OMS sur les normes alimentaires
Rome, 2004, 64 p. À sa vingt-sixième session en 2003, la Commission du Codex Alimentarius a adopté des principes de portée générale sur l'analyse des risques liés aux aliments dérivés des biotechnologies modernes et de directives pour l'évaluation de la sécurité sanitaire des aliments dérivés de plantes à ADN recombiné ou produits à l'aide de micro-organismes à ADN recombiné. Cette publication sous format réduit devrait permettre une plus ample utilisation et une meilleure compréhension du processus d'analyse des risques liés aux aliments dérivés des biotechnologies modernes par les gouvernements et autres parties intéressées, y compris le secteur agroalimentaire et les consommateurs.
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Informe de la Consulta Técnica para Examinar los Progresos y Promover la Plena Aplicación del Plan de Acción Internacional para Prevenir, Desalentar y Eliminar la Pesca Ilegal, no Declarada y no Reglamentada así como el Plan de Acción Internacional para la Ordenación de la Capacidad Pesquera. Roma, 24-29 de junio de 2004
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Cuestiones relacionadas con la economía mundial del tabaco. Estudios de casos seleccionados
Estudios FAO sobre productos básicos Nº 2 |
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Normas sociales y ambientales, la certificación y el etiquetado de cultivos comerciales, (Las)
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Report of the Technical Consultation to Review Progress and Promote the Full Implementation of the International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and the International Plan of Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity. Rome, 24-29 June 2004.
FAO Fisheries Report No. 753 The Technical Consultation made major recommendations on how to strengthen international cooperation on managing fishing capacity and combating IUU fishing. It also asked FAO to undertake a series of actions to facilitate effective and full implementation of these two IPOAs. Noting in particular an ongoing build-up of capacity in tuna fisheries in the western and central Pacific Ocean, the Technical Consultation suggested that governments in the region should lend priority attention to addressing the situation, including halting introductions of addidional large-scale fishing vessels.
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