Welcome to FAO in action

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations not only covers the globe, but its programmes and projects cover the breadth and depth of the agriculture, forestry, fisheries and food sectors. The following examples show the impact of a cross-section of those programmes on ordinary people -- farmers, fisher folk, forest dwellers, consumers and the civil servants who provide services to them all. All the stories include related facts and figures.

Saving time and preserving the harvest TeleFood helps farmers with simple but effective technologies Download paper in PDF

Back on track after el Niño FAO's Special Programme for Food Security helped Ecuadorian villages rehabilitate their devastated farms Download paper in PDF

Healthy, tasty and cheap FAO encourages Peruvians to eat anchovies through a combined fisheries-and-nutrition project Download paper in PDF

		Strength in diversity FAO battles the cocaine trade and deforestation in Bolivia by introducing alternative crops Download paper in PDF

Enabled, not disabled FAO project restores hope to the handicapped by helping them to become independent mushroom growers Download paper in PDF

More crop per drop Low-tech water pump from FAO's Special Programme for Food Security helps Africa turn green Download paper in PDF

Cows for Kosovo FAO's emergency assistance programme helped to get Kosovo's agriculture back on track Download paper in PDF

Learning how to farm fish FAO's aquaculture training contributes to food security and increases rural prosperity Download paper in PDF

Early warning, better help FAO's Global Information and Early Warning System works to prevent hunger Download paper in PDF

Quick, convenient and now safer Improving quality of street food: FAO and Codex Alimentarius formulate food safety standards Download paper in PDF

A matter of survival International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources, adopted at FAO conference, promotes agricultural biodiversity Download paper in PDF

To market, to market Feeding the cities: FAO helps improve urban food supply and distribution systems Download paper in PDF