The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted digital financial inclusion trends across the world in many and complex ways. In developing and emerging contexts, this crisis also holds the potential to propel an unprecedented acceleration in the process of financial digitization and turn out to be a game...
The Compendium is a product of the Joint Programme on Gender Transformative Approaches for Food Security and Nutrition implemented by FAO, IFAD and WFP and funded by the European Union. The compendium of 15 good practices of gender transformative approaches (GTAs) includes the individual templates...
Half of the 1.5 billion people globally who rely on forest landscapes for subsistence and cash income are women. Many see the benefits of participating in various forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs). These include both general community, smallholder farmer and indigenous people’s...
There is increasing attention to the importance of biodiversity for food security and nutrition, especially above-ground biodiversity such as plants and animals. However, less attention is being paid to the biodiversity beneath our feet, soil biodiversity, which drives many processes that produce...
This study, the third of its type published by FAO, adds further evidence that in mountain regions of developing countries, food insecurity, social isolation, environmental degradation, exposure to the risk of disasters and to the impacts of climate change, and limited access to basic services...
This document summarizes the online discussion Near-real-time monitoring of food crisis risk factors for improved early warning early action, held on the FAO Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) from 16 September to 18 October 2020. The discussion was facilitated by Betina...
This publication 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...
愈演愈烈的缺水问题对粮食安全和营养构成威胁。因此，迫切需要采取行动，在农业生产中更可持续、更公平地利用水资源。灌溉农业依然是淡水资源的最大用户，但随着对淡水资源的需求和竞争不断升级，淡水资源短缺问题正日益加重。同时，雨养农业正面临气候变化带来的降雨波动幅度不断加大的问题。这些趋势将加剧水资源使用者之间的矛盾纠纷和水资源获取方面的不平等，尤其对小农、农村贫困人口及其他弱势群体而言。 《2020年粮食及农业状况》就灌溉农业中普遍存在的水资源短缺问题、雨养农业中普遍存在的水资源不足问题以及受影响人口数量提供了新的估计数字。报告发现，各国之间存在巨大差异，各国内部同样也存在巨大的空间差异...
该报告的新版本着重围绕粮食损失和浪费领域，为阅读者提供了全球粮食收获后直至但不包括零售层面的最新估计数据。该报告还全面分析了供应链中的关键损失点，并提供了有效减少排放量的适当措施实例以供决策者参考。
联合国生物多样性十年（2011-2020）即将到期，各国政府正着手准备采用2020年后全球生物多样性框架。值此之际，本版《世界森林状况》（SOFO）考察了森林以及利用和管理森林的人类对保护和可持续利用生物多样性所做的贡献。 森林仅占全球陆地面积略高于30％，然而却为绝大多数科学上已知的陆生动植物提供了栖息地。不幸的是，森林及其所蕴含的生物多样性继续受到来自将林地转为农地或对其不可持续攫取的威胁，而且其中大部分都是非法行为。 2020年世界森林状况》评估了迄今为止在实现与森林生物多样性有关的全球目标和具体目标方面的进展，并从保护和可持续发展成果两方面考察了政策、行动和方法的有效性...