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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.
Picturing progress – Four betters in focus
17/10/2025
Through a rich collection of photographs and narratives, the book illustrates how FAO works alongside farmers, fishers, scientists, governments, Indigenous Peoples, youth, and civil society to advance sustainable solutions that nourish both people and planet. Organized around FAO’s vision of the four betters – better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life
Sustainable livestock transformation
29/09/2025
This document explains how FAO's vision and work to promote sustainable, inclusive and efficient livestock transformation for better production, better nutrition, better life and better environment, leaving no one behind.
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