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Food Outlook – Biannual report on global food markets
13/11/2025
Beyond the core market assessments for major food commodities, the November 2025 edition of the FAO Food Outlook report provides an update on the fertilizer market and recent developments in olive oil markets. The overview of market indicators summarizes trends in futures markets, ocean freight rates, the global food import bill, and food price indices.
Hunger Hotspots: FAO–WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity - November 2025 to May 2026 outlook
11/11/2025
This report warns that acute food insecurity could deepen across 16 countries and territories over the outlook period of November 2025 to May 2026, compared to the same time one year earlier. Six contexts are at “highest concern” – Sudan, Palestine (Gaza Strip and West Bank), South Sudan, Yemen, Mali, and Haiti – where populations already face or risk entering Catastrophe (IPC/CH Phase 5) conditions.
Update on scientific findings on the interactions between agriculture, food systems, and climate change
10/11/2025
This White Paper reports on the latest scientific findings related to agriculture, food systems, and climate change. It builds on the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Climate Change and Land and the contributions of Working Groups II and III to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (IPCC, 2019, 2022a, 2022b)
The State of Food and Agriculture 2025
03/11/2025
The 2025 edition of The State of Food and Agriculture explores the theme “Addressing land degradation across landholding scales”. It examines the implications of human-induced land degradation for agricultural production, producers of all scales, and vulnerable populations.
World Food and Agriculture – Statistical Yearbook 2025
28/10/2025
The Statistical Yearbook 2025 offers a synthesis of the major factors at play in the global food and agricultural landscape. Statistics are presented in four thematic chapters, covering the economic importance of agricultural activities, inputs, outputs, and factors of production, their implications for food security and nutrition, and their impacts on the environment.
Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025
21/10/2025
This assessment examines the status of, and trends in, forest resources over the period 1990–2025, drawing on the efforts of hundreds of experts worldwide.
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2024: January, February, April, May, June, July, October, November, December
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