Summaries of consultations
Eradicating extreme poverty: What is the role of agriculture?
This document summarizes the online discussion Eradicating extreme poverty: What is the role of agriculture? which was held on the FAO Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) from 3 to 24 April 2018. The discussion was facilitated by Ana Paula de la O Campos and Maya Takagi of FAO...
Reports and briefs
Food security and armed conflict: a cross-country analysis
The report analyses the relation between conflict and food security, using country-level data that cover 106 countries in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America between 1961 and 2011. The results highlight the negative correlation between conflict and food security, illustrating how certain...
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Reports and briefs
Combined effects and synergies between agricultural and social protection interventions: what is the evidence so far?
This publication identifies interactions between agricultural and social protection interventions and shows the positive impacts of combined programmes on income diversification, food security and poverty reduction.
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Reports and briefs
Strategic work of FAO to Reduce Rural Poverty
Poverty is one of the greatest obstacles to human development and economic growth. Recognizing the diverse spectrum of poor rural households, FAO proposes a broad approach with differentiated strategies to help the rural poor move from low levels of labour status and productivity towards improved...
Reports and briefs
Small Family Farms Country factsheet: TAJIKISTAN
The Smallholder Farmers’ Data portrait is a comprehensive, systematic and standardized data set on the profile of smallholder farmers across the world. This Factsheet generates an overview on how small family farmers in Tajikistan live their lives by using the Data Portrait, putting an emphasis on...
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Reports and briefs
Agriculture, food and jobs in West Africa
This paper quantifies and describes the structure of employment in the food economy across four broad segments of activities: agriculture, processing, marketing and food-away-from home. It also examines some of the emerging spatial implications, in particular rural-urban linkages and rural...
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Consultation
Eradicating extreme poverty: what is the role of agriculture?
With this online discussion, we would like to invite you to reflect on the nexus between extreme poverty and food insecurity.
While there is little doubt that hunger and poverty are closely linked, policies and interventions addressing hunger and extreme poverty are often sector-specific and look at either of the two problems.
FAO flagships
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017
The report warns that the greater number of conflicts, whose impacts are often exacerbated by climate-related shocks, is one of the main drivers behind the fact that after steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger appears to be on the rise once more. This is threatening to derail the...
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Reports and briefs
Agriculture in Africa—Telling Myths from Facts: A Synthesis
Stylized facts drive research agendas and policy debates. Yet robust stylized facts are hard to come by, and when available, often outdated. In a special issue of Food Policy, 12 papers revisit conventional wisdom on African agriculture and its farmers’ livelihoods using nationally representative...
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The State of Food and Agriculture 2017
Today, the 2017 edition of the State of Food and Agriculture has been released. This year, the theme of the report is “Leveraging food systems for inclusive rural transformation”.
The new report looks at how population growth, increasing urbanization, technologies, and climate change are transforming rural and urban areas, and how the world’s food systems are evolving. The report concludes that fulfilling the 2030 Agenda depends crucially on progress in rural areas, which is where most of the poor and hungry live today, and outlines a strategy for how agriculture and rural economies in developing countries can provide prosperity.
Please visit the following website to download the report and additional material one of the six UN languages:
http://www.fao.org/state-of-food-agriculture/en/.