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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...

The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security: 2021
18/03/2021

On top of a decade of exacerbated disaster loss, exceptional global heat, retreating ice and rising sea levels, humanity and our food security face a range of new and unprecedented hazards, such as megafires, extreme weather events, desert locust swarms of magnitudes previously unseen, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Agriculture underpins...

Digital finance and inclusion in the time of COVID-19
25/01/2021

As part of the global response to COVID-19, the digital finance industry has been playing a key role in developing and providing services and innovations that have mitigated, at least partially, the disruptions brought about by the pandemic on multiple aspects of people’s lives. In developing and emerging contexts, especially,...

How to feed the world in times of pandemics and climate change?
22/01/2021

The 13th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) in 2021 is seeking recommendations, guided by four questions about “How to Feed the World in Times of Pandemics and Climate Change?”: 1) How can food systems emerge strengthened from the COVID-19 pandemic? 2) How can the agricultural sector contribute to...

Identification guide to the mesopelagic fishes of the central and south east Atlantic Ocean
23/12/2020

This identification guide includes 552 species of mesopelagic fishes (i.e. those fishes residing primarily between 200-1000 m depth during daytime) that are known to occur in the central and south east Atlantic Ocean. Fully illustrated dichotomous keys to all taxa are provided. Species are treated in detail, with accounts including...

The State of Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries 2020
14/12/2020

This third edition of the State of Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries provides a comprehensive overview of the status of fisheries in the region, looking at their main features and trends, in order to better inform their management and better examine current and future challenges that they will face in...

Vulnerability of Mountain Peoples to Food Insecurity
11/12/2020

In mountain regions of developing countries, food insecurity, social isolation, environmental degradation, exposure to the risk of disasters and the impacts of climate change, and limited access to basic services are still prevalent. This is especially true in rural areas. This study, the third of its kind published by FAO, adds further evidence of...

State of Knowledge of Soil Biodiversity
05/12/2020

This report is the result of an inclusive process involving 300 scientists from around the world under the auspices of the FAO’s Global Soil Partnership and its Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative and the European Commission. The report presents the...

The State of Food and Agriculture 2020
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...

Food Outlook – Biannual Report on Global Food Markets (2020)
12/11/2020

This report provides supply and demand forecasts for basic foodstuffs, fish and fishery products along with price analysis, policy information and a preliminary assessment of the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on trade in bananas and tropical fruits. The report’s special feature reviews recent trends in food imports bills and...