Publications
The State of the World
FAO’s State of the World collection comprises the Organization’s flagship reports. Published annually or biennially, these are data-rich and analytically complex publications: they provide a global snapshot of topics associated with food and agriculture.
The collection is increasingly structured to gauge progress towards the goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is aimed at policymakers; donors; international organizations; academia; and journalists and researchers specializing in food security, agrifood systems, the environment and international development.
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World
Urbanization, agrifood systems transformation and healthy diets
The State of Food and Agriculture
Revealing the true cost of food to transform agrifood systems
The State of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Towards Blue Transformation
The State of the World's Forests
Forest pathways for green recovery
The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets
The geography of food and agricultural trade
The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security
The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security
Avoiding and reducing losses through investment in resilience
This biennial report puts numbers on the losses that disasters – ever more frequent and intense in recent years – have produced in global agriculture. It also outlines strategies to reduce disaster-related risk in the sector.
Recent Publications
Global Report on Food Crises 2022
04/05/2022
Globally, levels of hunger remain alarmingly high. In 2021, close to 193 million people were acutely food insecure and in need of urgent assistance across 53 countries/territories, according to the findings of the 2022 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC 2022). This represents an increase of nearly 40 million people compared to the previous high reached in 2020 (reported in the GRFC 2021). The sixth edition of the Global Report on Food Crises is...
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2023-2032
07/07/2023
The Agricultural Outlook 2023-2032 is a collaborative effort of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It brings together the commodity, policy and country expertise of both organisations as well as input from collaborating member countries to provide an annual assessment of the prospects for the coming decade of national, regional and global agricultural commodity markets. The publication consists of 11 Chapters;...
FAO Action Plan 2022–2025 for the implementation of the FAO Strategy on Climate Change
21/07/2023
The elements of the Action Plan are derived from the Theory of Change anchored in the Strategy. The Action Plan is therefore articulated around the three pillars and six outcomes of the Strategy. In addition, and with the aim to provide more clarity, action areas have been introduced to cluster the outputs, which are concrete results contributing to each outcome of the Strategy. The outputs are formulated based on the FAO actions listed in...