The aim of this paper is to assess the causal impact of trade policy distortions on food security. The added value of this work is twofold: i) its use of a non-parametric matching technique with continuous treatment, namely the Generalised Propensity Score (GPS) to address the self selection bias...
Ensuring food safety is a public health priority, and an essential step to achieving food security. Effective food safety and quality management systems are key not only to safeguarding the health and well-being of people but also to fostering economic development and improving livelihoods by...
That Africa has become a net importer of food and of agricultural products, despite its vast agricultural potential, is puzzling. Using data mainly for the period 1960-2007, this report seeks to explain Africa’s food-trade deficit since the mid-1970s. The core finding is that population growth, low...
昆虫饮食（entomophagy）意指由人类将昆虫作为食品而 消费。昆虫饮食在世界各地的诸多国家普遍存在，然其在亚 洲，非洲和拉丁美洲更为常见。目前，昆虫为将近20亿人补 充了食谱，且其一直是人类饮食的一部分。然而，昆虫饮食 引起媒体、研究机构、厨师和食品工业行业、立法机构和与 食品及饲料相关的各类机构之关注，尚属新近之发现。联 合国粮农组织（FAO）食用昆虫计划（The Edible Insects Programme）还考察了将蛛形纲动物（如蜘蛛和蝎子）用于 食品和饲料的潜力，尽管其按分类学的定义并不属于昆虫。
家庭农业中的创新 全世界有5亿多个家庭农场，经营着世界上大部分 农地，生产出世界上大部分粮食。我们需要这些家庭农场来保障全球粮食安全，管理和保护自然环境，消除贫困、食物不足和营养不良现象。然而，要想彻底实现这 些目标，公共政策需要支持家庭农场，使其提高自身的生产率和实现可持续性；换言之，政策必须要支持家庭农场，使其在一个承认其所面临挑战的多样性和复杂性 的体系中实现创新。 《2014年粮食及农业状况：家庭农业中的创新》着力分析家庭农场，并分析创新在保障全球粮食安全、减贫和环境可持续性等方面所发挥的作用。报告提出，必需支持家庭农场创新，推动生产可持续集约化和改善农村生计...
The Right to Food: Past commitment, current obligation, further action for the future – A Ten-Year Retrospective on the Right to Food Guidelines analyzes some of the main issues experienced while implementing the Right to Food Guidelines over the past decade and looks to possible avenues for making...
提高森林的社会经济效益 在世界各地，森林、农场树木和农林兼作系统对 农村人口的生计发挥着至关重要的作用，为人们提供 就业、能源、营养食物以及一系列其他产品和生态系统 服务，在推动实现可持续发展和绿色经济方面具有巨 大潜力。但这一点却一直缺乏有力证明。必须收集相关 证明才能为森林管理和利用政策提供素材，确保森林所 产生的惠益能够在2015年后发展议程中得到认可，这不 仅是对环境的贡献，也包括对更广泛社会问题的贡献。 本期《世界森林状况》通过系统地收集和分析有关 森林对人们的生计、食物、健康、住所和能源需求所作 贡献的现有数据，旨在填补这一知识缺口。关键的一 点是...
On 7 August 2014 Russia announced a ban on food imports from Western countries which, in an earlier move, had imposed sanctions on Russian business interests in connection with the crisis in eastern Ukraine. The prohibition was effective immediately, and will stay in place for one year, blocking all...
Recent increases in the levels and volatility of food prices have created significant challenges to efforts to reduce levels of food insecurity both at national and household levels. As a result, significant political attention has been given to the promotion of improvements in food staples...
The Food Security Commitment and Capacity Profile methodology There is a global consensus that strong political commitment by Governments and development partners is key to the elimination of hunger and malnutrition. It is against this background that FAO has developed a methodology to assess and...