Sustainable nitrogen management in agrifood systems

31/01/2025

This FAO report provides a comprehensive overview of nitrogen's role, and the challenges associated with its use in agrifood systems. It explores solutions for improving nitrogen management in crop and livestock systems to enhance nitrogen use efficiency while reducing pollution. Additionally, it highlights the potential of circular bioeconomy approaches to optimize nitrogen management and minimize nitrogen losses.

Gender transformative change for climate action

31/01/2025

This technical study highlights the role of discriminatory social institutions, unequal power relations and agency in influencing climate resilience processes for sustainable agrifood systems. It also defines core characteristics of gender transformative change in climate resilience programming and presents a collection of climate change interventions that address different dimensions of gender transformative change and the management of disaster risks in agrifood systems.

The Food Systems Countdown Report 2024

14/01/2025

This brief presents the Food Systems Countdown Initiative indicators depicting the current state of national food systems. In doing so, it provides a starting point for future work to identify where things can be done better, provide ideas for how to get there and inspire stakeholders (in particular, policymakers) that progress can and must be made.

The Financing Flows and Food Crises report

07/01/2025

The Financing Flows and Food Crises report is an annual publication produced by the Global Network Against Food Crises, in collaboration with Development Initiatives. It provides a comprehensive overview of financing flows related to food crises and offers insights into how international financial allocations address acute food insecurity.

FAO alerts European countries to enhance preparedness for combating peste des petits ruminants

24/12/2024

Near East and North Africa – Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2024

19/12/2024

In 2023, 66.1 million people, approximately 14 percent of the population in the Arab region, faced hunger. The report highlights that access to adequate food remains elusive for millions. Around 186.5 million people – 39.4 percent of the population – faced moderate or severe food insecurity, an increase of 1.1 percentage points from the previous year. Alarmingly, 72.7 million people experienced severe food insecurity.