Reports and briefs
The future of food and agriculture: Trends and challenges
What will be needed to realize the vision of a world free from hunger and malnutrition? After shedding light on the nature of the challenges that agriculture and food systems are facing now and throughout the 21st century, the study provides insights into what is at stake and what needs to be done....
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Reports and briefs
In Brief: Pulses for food security and nutrition: How can their full potential be tapped?
FSN Forum brief based on the online discussions Pulses are praised for their health, environmental and economic benefits. How can their full potential be tapped? and Pulses: innovations from the field to the cooking pot, which were held from 25 May to 19 June 2016 and from 14 October to 4 November...
Reports and briefs
Wholesome Nutrition: an example for a sustainable diet
by Karl von Koerber, Nadine Bader and Claus Leitzmann Working Group Sustainable Nutrition, Mutter-Teresa-Strasse 20, 81829 Munich, Germany Institute of Nutritional Sciences, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany 'Wholesome Nutrition' is a concept of sustainable nutrition that was developed at...
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Summaries of consultations
Summary of "How can we protect pollinators and promote their role in environmental and agricultural practices?"
This document summarizes the online discussion How can we protect pollinators and promote their role in environmental and agricultural practices? which was held on FAO’s Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) from 22 August to 9 September 2016. The discussion was facilitated by...
The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) report for 2016 has been released
The State of Food and Agriculture 2016 report (SOFA 2016), FAO’s annual flagship publication, has been released yesterday.
SOFA assesses issues on agricultural and rural development in the context of global food security. This year’s SOFA report centres on the double challenge of food security and climate change, presenting alternatives to tackle the two as a whole.
The report and furher information are available in all UN six languages at: http://www.fao.org/publications/sofa/en/
Consultation
How can we protect pollinators and promote their role in environmental and agricultural practices?
Pollination is responsible for providing us with a wide variety of food, affecting 35 percent of the world’s crop production and increasing outputs of 87 of the leading food crops worldwide. However, human activity has put a large pressure on pollinators jeopardizing entire ecosystems and the production of nutritious foods. What is being done and which further steps need to be taken to protect pollinators and promote their role in environmental and agricultural practices?
Trainings, tools and databases
Guidebook for online facilitators: Sharing experiences from climate change and agriculture communities of practice
This guidebook synthesizes lessons learned from the FAO Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture programme’s work with online communities of practice. It aims to help others searching for effective ways to organize and facilitate online communities. The guidebook is a one-stop resource bank and...
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Central Asia Climate Smart Agriculture Workshop
In Bishkek, the Kyrgyz Republic will host the Workshop on Climate Smart Agriculture (12.07 – 14.07.2016), the participants of which will be representatives of the Central Asian countries - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The Workshop will address the interlinked challenges of food security, climate change, energy and disaster risk reduction (DRR) through an integrated climate smart agriculture (CSA) approach.
Webinars and workshops
Pulses for Food Security and Nutrition
Organized in the context of the International Year of Pulses 2016, this webinar hosted the FAO experts Teodardo Calles and Fernanda Grande who presented the benefits of pulses from an agro-ecological and nutritional perspective. The presentations of the two experts were followed by a question and answer session which allowed participants to engage in a brief round of discussion.
Surveys
Online survey “Central Asia activities on Climate-Smart Agriculture”
The survey aims at taking stock of challenges posed by climate change to the agriculture sector in Central Asian countries. It also aims at collecting available information and data to provide an informative picture of the context and of how Climate Smart Agriculture could help addressing key challenges.