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GLOBEFISH Price Dashboard
27/09/2021
The GLOBEFISH Price Dashboard takes the prices GLOBEFISH monitors for fisheries and aquaculture products in Europe and presents this information in a powerful and user-friendly interface. It provides a dynamic tool in facing the challenges of monitoring real-time data and making information accessible to end-users.
In the GLOBEFISH Price Dashboard, prices are automatically drawn from various sources along the value chain into a central database and updated once a week.
Hunger Hotspots - FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity - August to November 2021 Outlook
30/07/2021
The August to November edition of the Hunger Hotspots report provides the results of a joint FAO-WFP early warning analysis of acute food insecurity hotspots, highlights countries that are at risk of significant food security deterioration, and in particular acute hunger and associated malnutrition. The analysis takes into account all major drivers of food insecurity. It provides a forward-looking perspective, outlining the likely evolution of impacts over the next four-month or so months aiming to inform urgent action to safeguard food security of the most vulnerable communities in these locations.
State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021
12/07/2021
Between 720 and 811 million people in the world faced hunger in 2020. Considering the middle of the projected range (768 million), around 118 million more people were facing hunger in 2020 than in 2019. Around 660 million people may still face hunger in 2030, in part due to lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on global food security – 30 million more people than in a scenario in which the pandemic had not occurred
FAO + European Union: Investing in a sustainable and food secure future
06/05/2021
In 1991, the European Union (EU) became the 161st Member of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), marking an institutional breakthrough: it was the first time that FAO welcomed a Member Organization. The EU–FAO partnership has since been sound and growing, as evidenced by the upward trend of the EU’s voluntary contributions1 in recent years. This has enabled FAO to work extensively across the globe and in those regions where assistance is most needed.
Global Report on Food Crises 2021
05/05/2021
The number of people facing acute food insecurity and needing urgent life and livelihood-saving assistance has hit a five-year high in 2020 in countries beset by food crises, an annual report launched by the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) - an international alliance of the UN, the EU, governmental and non-governmental agencies working to tackle food crises together - has found.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2020: Overcoming water challenges in agriculture
26/11/2020
The State of Food and Agriculture 2020 presents new estimates on the pervasiveness of water scarcity in irrigated agriculture and of water shortages in rainfed agriculture, as well as on the number of people affected. It finds major differences across countries, and also substantial spatial variation within countries. This evidence informs a discussion of how countries may determine appropriate policies and interventions, depending on the nature and magnitude of the problem, but also on other factors such as the type of agricultural production system and countries’ level of development and their political structures. Based on this, the publication provides guidance on how countries can prioritize policies and interventions to overcome water constraints in agriculture, while ensuring efficient, sustainable and equitable access to water.
FAO-WFP Early warning analysis of acute food insecurity hotspots
30/10/2020
The report raises an early warning on 20 countries and situations that are likely to face further deterioration of acute food insecurity over the next three to six months. Projections are based on the analysis of a multiplicity of interlinked drivers, including economic shocks, adverse climate conditions and weather shocks, conflict and insecurity, political instability, diffusion of plant pests and animal diseases, and the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19.
The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2020
23/09/2020
The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2020 (SOCO 2020) aims to discuss policies and mechanisms that promote sustainable outcomes – economic, social and environmental – in agricultural and food markets, both global and domestic. The analysis is organized along the trends and challenges that lie at the heart of global discussions on trade and development. These include the evolution of trade and markets; the emergence of global value chains in food and agriculture; the extent to which smallholder farmers in developing countries participate in value chains and markets; and the transformative impacts of digital technology on markets.
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