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AQUASTAT water data snapshot 2025
12/12/2025
The AQUASTAT Water Data Snapshot 2025 presents a concise overview of the most recent data available, collected during the 2024 cycle and covering data up to 2022. This report offers users easy access to more than 10 indicators providing insight into the status of water resources, agricultural water use, irrigated area, water use efficiency and water stress at global, regional and national levels through clear visuals, charts and maps.
FAO’s Global Emergency and Resilience Appeal 2026
04/12/2025
FAO’s first Global Emergency and Resilience Appeal seeks USD 2.5 billion to assist over 100 million people in 54 countries in 2026. The Appeal calls for lasting solutions to acute food insecurity by scaling agricultural interventions alongside food assistance – feeding more people, more sustainably, and at lower cost.
FAO at 80
02/12/2025
Through words and photographs, FAO at 80: the pursuit of better food for all chronicles the Organization's milestones over the course of its mandate, seen against the backdrop of world events and the evolution of food and agriculture more generally.
The State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture 2025
01/12/2025
The report presents the status of land, soil, and water resources, and practical actions and solutions for their sustainable use and management, illustrated with examples. It also identifies the key enablers required to scale up these transformative solutions for lasting impact to build more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agrifood systems.
The State of Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries 2025
28/11/2025
This 2025 edition of the GFCM flagship publication, The State of Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries, presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date review of fisheries and aquaculture status and trends in the Mediterranean and Black Sea region. The sixth installment of this report is the most ambitious to date and comes as a result of an unprecedented collaborative effort across the region.
Agrifood systems in national adaptation plans
18/11/2025
As the national adaptation plan (NAP) process gains global momentum, this joint FAO–UNDP analysis produced under the SCALA programme looks across all NAPs from developing countries – 64 in total as of 15 June 2025 – to take stock of adaptation priorities and needs in agrifood systems.
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