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Can Water Productivity Improvements Save Us from Global Water Scarcity?
29/07/2021

This paper is intended for a broad range of actors working on agriculture water use. This includes policymakers and decision-makers who are designing national or basin-scale interventions to address water scarcity and stakeholders who would be impacted by these programs. This paper aims to provide some guiding recommendations to ensure...

Promoting youth engagement and employment in agriculture and food systems
19/07/2021

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) calls for the development of systems, policies and programmes that engage more youth in agriculture and agricultural professions. To inform this important workstream, the CFS Multi-Year Programme of Work for 2020–2023 requested the High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE)...

Climate-smart agriculture case studies 2021
09/07/2021

This publication describes climate-smart agriculture (CSA) case studies from around the world, showing how the approach is implemented to address challenges related to climate change and agriculture. The case studies operationalize the five action points for CSA implementation: expanding the evidence base for CSA, supporting enabling policy frameworks, strengthening national...

Mountain farming systems – seeds for the future
08/07/2021

This publication presents a collection of case studies by Mountain Partnership (MP) members from around the world, highlighting experiences of agroecological mountain farming systems. It aims to increase attention toward agroecological principles and approaches and showcase their potential. The MP, the only United Nations global voluntary alliance dedicated to sustainable...

OECD FAO Agricultural Outlook 2021-2030
05/07/2021

The Agricultural Outlook 2021-2030 is a collaborative effort of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. It brings together the commodity, policy and country expertise of both organisations as well as input from collaborating member countries to provide...

FAO Strategic Framework 2022-2031
05/07/2021

FAO’s Strategic Framework seeks to support the 2030 Agenda through the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable, agri-food systems for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life, leaving no one behind. The four betters represent an organising principle for how FAO intends to contribute directly to SDG 1 (No poverty),...

Guide on incentives for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems
22/06/2021

Increased investment in agriculture and food systems—from both the private and public sectors—is critical to enhance food security and nutrition, reduce poverty, and adapt to climate change. To generate sustainable benefits, this investment must be responsible. This Guide provides policymakers and government technical staff with guidance on how investment incentives...

Making climate-sensitive investments in agriculture
16/06/2021

Climate change is a major challenge for agriculture, a vital source of food, income and employment for most of the world’s poor. Agricultural investments, as a result, need to become more climate sensitive. This is as true for general agricultural investments focused on development outcomes as for projects specifically addressing...

Food Outlook - Biannual Report on Global Food Markets (June 2021)
11/06/2021

Food Outlook, issued twice a year, offers a detailed assessment of market supply and demand trends for the world's major foodstuffs, including cereals, vegetable oils, sugar, meat and dairy and fish. It also looks at trends in futures markets and shipping costs for food commodities. The report notes that trade flows...

Cross-border coordination of livestock movements and sharing of natural resources among pastoralist communities in the Greater Karamoja Cluster
09/06/2021

Frequent and persistent droughts are a recurrent feature of the Karamoja Cluster, which encompasses the southwestern parts of Ethiopia, northwestern Kenya, the southeastern parts of South Sudan and northeastern Uganda. The impacts of these droughts are exacerbated by climate change, advancing desertification and the environmental degradation of rangelands. The resulting...

Global assessment of soil pollution: Report
04/06/2021

Soil pollution is invisible to the human eye, but it compromises the quality of the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe, and puts human and environmental health at risk. Most contaminants originate from human activities, such as industrial processes and mining, poor waste management,...

Ecosystem restoration for people, nature and climate
04/06/2021

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration provides a unique opportunity to transform food, fibre and feed production systems to the needs of the 21st century, and to eradicate poverty, hunger and malnutrition. This report presents the case for why we all must throw our weight behind a global restoration effort....

Scientific review of the impact of climate change on plant pests
02/06/2021

Climate change represents an unprecedented challenge to the world’s biosphere and to the global community. It also represents a unique challenge for plant health. Human activities and increased market globalization, coupled with rising temperatures, has led to a situation that is favourable to pest movement and establishment. This scientific review...

2021 Global Report on Food Crises
07/05/2021

One year after COVID-19 spread across the world, the 2021 edition of the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) confirms dire projections. The pandemic and related containment measures have aggravated the impact of pre-existing drivers of fragility, notably conflict and climate change. The resulting economic hardship has widened inequalities and...

Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity (March to July 2021 Outlook)
23/03/2021

The FAO-WFP Hunger Hotspots report is a forward-looking, earlywarning analysis of countries and situations, called hotspots, where acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate over the coming months. These hotspots are identified through a consensus-based analysis of key drivers of food insecurity, and their likely combination and evolution across countries...