
Report
State of Food and Agriculture 2019. Moving forward on food loss and waste reduction
Published: 2019
This new edition of the report focuses on food losses and waste, providing new estimates of the world’s food post-harvest up to, but excluding, the retail level.
Addressing policy makers, the [...]

Case Study
E-agriculture in Action. Big data for agriculture
Published: 2019
According to Forbes, we generate almost 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. The next generation of agriculture heavily depends on data. The ability to capture, sort, analyze and extract [...]

Brochure
Background Notes on Sustainable, Productive and Resilient Agro-Food Systems: Value chains, human capital, and the 2030 Agenda
Published: 2019
Agricultural production more than tripled between 1960 and 2015, owing in part to productivity-enhancing technologies and a significant expansion in the use of land, water, and other natural resources for [...]

Case Study
Food Chain Crisis. Stories of change
Published: 2019
Using a storytelling approach, this special series of short stories communicates the impact of FAO's work on prevention and response to transboundary threats, told through the voice of the individuals [...]

Project Highlights
Strengthening national capacity to increase food and nutrition security in Afghanistan
Published: 2019
Entrenched food insecurity and malnutrition is a major concern in Afghanistan. It can be explained by several factors, including limited availability, fragile accessibility and instability of food supplies, among others. [...]

Project Highlights
Increasing the resilience of communities against disaster risk in Upper West Region, Ghana
Published: 2019
Climate change issues are among the leading causes of hunger and affect all dimensions of food security in the Upper West region of Ghana, including access to food, availability and [...]

Issue Paper
Strengthening linkages between small actors and buyers in the roots and tubers sector in Africa. Rwanda
Published: 2019
Rwanda is the sixth largest producer of potatoes in Africa, and the Irish potato is one of the most important crop in the country. Small scale farmers and food enterprises [...]

Tool
The Ex-Ante Carbon-Balance Tool (EX-ACT)
Published: 2019
The Ex-Ante Carbon-balance Tool (EX-ACT) is an appraisal system developed by FAO providing estimates of the impact of agriculture and forestry development projects, programmes and policies on the carbon-balance. The [...]

Tool
Food Price Monitoring and Analysis Tool (FPMA)
Published: 2019
The Food Price Monitoring and Analysis (FPMA) database includes over 1400 monthly domestic retail and/or wholesale price series of major foods consumed in 94 countries and weekly/monthly prices for 85 [...]

Case Study
Case studies on managing quality, assuring safety and reducing post-harvest losses in fruit and vegetable supply chains in South Asian countries
Published: 2018
This studies report aims at contributing to achieve SO4. Particularly, it serves to produce and share information and results in order to deliver under Output 2.2 of SO4, notably “Evidence-based [...]