The Development Law Service is responsible for contributing to and maintaining user-friendly databases of national legislation and international agreements.
The FAOLEX database, for example, is one of the world’s largest online collections of national laws, regulations and policies on food, agriculture and natural resources from more than 200 countries, territories and regional economic integration organizations. It is being constantly updated with an average of 8,000 new entries every year.
These databases are open access and available for anyone to use.
Legal databases at FAO
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One of the world's largest online repositories of national laws, regulations and policies as well as international agreements on food, agriculture and natural resources management. |
Profiles of national and transboundary legal and policy frameworks regarding water. |
Database of port state measures to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, adopted both at the national level and by Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs). | |
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Disseminates laws, regulations and policies concerning agroecology in different countries. | Database of Measures on Conservation and Management of Sharks Disseminates laws, regulations and policies on the conservation and management of sharks. |
Disseminates laws, regulations and policies on soil protection and prevention of soil degradation. | |
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Disseminates laws, regulations and policies related to family farming, including agroecology, forest farming, indigenous peoples, mountain farming, pastoralism and small-scale fisheries. |
A cross-cutting thematic database of FAOLEX, providing free access to national and international legal and policy instruments on gender equality and women's empowerment. |
Disseminates laws, regulations and policies relevant to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antimicrobial use (AMU) within the context of agri-food systems. | |
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National Aquaculture Legislative Overview (NALO) Country profiles of national legal frameworks, policies and programmes on aquaculture from leading aquaculture producing countries. |
Disseminates laws, regulations and policies on pastoralism. |
Country profiles of national legal frameworks, policies and programmes on small-scale fisheries. | |
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The right to Food around the Globe Database providing access to national commitments on the right to adequate food. The platform contains quotes of national Constitutions and specifies the ratification status of some key international instruments in matter of right to adequate food. |
Country profiles of national legal frameworks, policies and programmes on forest management, timber production and trade. |
