Year: 2017

Resource type: Publications

This document provides an overview of the report “The future of food and agriculture - Trends and challenges”.    

Year: 2015

Resource type: Publications

This report presents estimates of the additional investments required to achieve the objective of zero hunger worldwide by 2030, through the elimination of extreme poverty. To this end, a twin-track approach involving social protection transfers...

Year: 2015

Resource type: Presentations

Presentation by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Director General, ES Department, FAO at the side event on “Ending Rural Hunger” to the Committee of World Food Security (CFS) 41st Session [Rome, Italy – 13 October 2015]. This...

Year: 2014

Resource type: Videos

This interview with Lorenzo G. Bellù, FAO Economist, recorded by the first channel of the public Italian Television (RAI 1) in preparation of EXPO 2015 in Milan (Italy), addresses the issue of how to feed...

Year: 2004

Resource type: Technical material

After analysing trends in food consumption, overweight and obesity, this paper provides possible remedies to stop and reverse the obesity epidemic in high-income countries, and to prevent similar developments in low- and middle-income ones. The...