The escalation of conflict in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Middle East has sharply increased risks to global energy, fertilizer, and agrifood systems. The Strait of Hormuz, a critical chokepoint for oil, gas,...

This report analyses Ghana’s public expenditure on food and agriculture from 2016 to 2023 using the FAO Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme indicators. These indicators track both the level and composition...

In 2024, FAO delivered anticipatory cash transfers to 2 400 households in Somalia, triggered by early warning information from the Somalia Water and Land Information Management (SWALIM), ahead of peak drought conditions. One of the...

The Environmental eXternalities ACcounting Tool (EX-ACT) checklist guides the collection of essential data for the greenhouse gas (GHG) assessments of projects. It covers project-level details, land-based activities, livestock, fisheries, wetlands, downstream energy use, and inputs...

Agricultural systems and rural development are key to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Policymakers seeking to eradicate hunger today face a difficult dilemma: preventing billions from going hungry while saving the planet. To...

Uganda’s dairy industry, a key sector within the country’s third National Development Plan, has experienced remarkable growth in the last decade, with raw-milk production rising from 1.9 billion litres in 2014 to 2.8 billion litres...

This document introduces a new agrifood systems typology developed for The State of Food and Agriculture 2024 based on the typology developed by Marshall et al. (2021). It aims to categorize countries based on multiple...

Agrifood systems play a pivotal economic and social role in the five Central Asia (CA5) countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. These not only contribute significantly to the gross domestic product (GDP) of these...

The State of Food and Agriculture 2024 report prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) considers the effectiveness of actions at global, national and local level to avoid the hidden...

The State of Food and Agriculture 2024 report by FAO refines the global estimates of hidden agrifood system costs across 156 countries, introducing a typology of six agrifood system types rather than geographic classifications. Building...