Publications
The State of the World
FAO’s State of the World collection comprises the Organization’s flagship reports. Published annually or biennially, these are data-rich and analytically complex publications: they provide a global snapshot of topics associated with food and agriculture.
The collection is increasingly structured to gauge progress towards the goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is aimed at policymakers; donors; international organizations; academia; and journalists and researchers specializing in food security, agrifood systems, the environment and international development.
The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets
Trade and nutrition: Policy coherence for healthy diets
The State of Food and Agriculture
Revealing the true cost of food to transform agrifood systems
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World
Urbanization, agrifood systems transformation and healthy diets
The State of the World's Forests
Forest pathways for green recovery
The State of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Blue Transformation in action
Additional flagship reports
The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security
Avoiding and reducing losses through investment in resilience
The Status of Women in Agrifood Systems
This report uses extensive new data and analyses to provide a comprehensive picture of women’s participation, benefits, and challenges they face working in agrifood systems globally.
Recent Reports
Recent Publications
Hunger Hotspots: FAO–WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity outlook (November 2024 to May 2025)
10/2024
In the current edition of a joint bi-yearly report, FAO and the WFP warn that acute food insecurity is projected to worsen in 16 hunger hotspots, including a total of 14 countries and two regional clusters which comprise 8 countries, during the outlook period from November 2024 to May 2025.
Climate change, biodiversity and nutrition nexus: Evidence and emerging policy and programming opportunities
10/2024
This paper identifies entry points within agri-food systems to improve biodiversity and diets, two levers that can be used to enhance nutrition and optimize environmental sustainability while ensuring social equity, especially of the most vulnerable people. It also presents recommendations for concrete actions by key stakeholders – governments, academia, civil society, private sector, and development partners –to build resilient, inclusive, and sustainable agri-food systems.
Shaping sustainable agrifood futures: pre-emerging and emerging technologies and innovations for impact
10/2024
This study assesses a selection of technologies and innovations, which potentially could be of paramount importance in addressing agrifood challenges until 2050, as well as the most important trends and drivers that will influence the emergence of agrifood pre-emerging and emerging technologies and innovations (PETIAS) and their triggers of change, including some regional aspects and stakeholders' perspectives.
FAO Strategy on Mainstreaming Biodiversity across Agricultural Sectors
10/2020
The FAO strategy on mainstreaming biodiversity was approved at the FAO Conference in 2019, in view of preparations for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. The Strategy aims to mainstream biodiversity across agricultural sectors at national, regional and international levels in a structured and coherent manner, taking into account national priorities, needs, regulations and policies and country programming frameworks.
Food safety aspects of cell-based food
04/2023
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), has developed this document to engage with respective Members and relevant stakeholders by proactively sharing the current knowledge to identify concrete ways to inform consumers and all other stakeholders about the food safety considerations for cell-based food products.
Climate-change impacts on plant pests: a technical resource to support national and regional plant protection organizations
10/2024
To facilitate safe international trade in plants and plant products, it is imperative to strengthen national, regional and international phytosanitary capacities regarding climate change. The aim of this document is to provide technical and operational advice to NPPOs and RPPOs on how to effectively assess and manage the pest risk that is a consequence of climate change.
La Niña: Anticipatory Action and Response Plan, September–December 2024
09/2024
FAO’s La Niña Anticipatory Action and Response Plan requires urgent funding to deliver immediate support in a number of identified countries around the world, based on analysis of historical trends, latest seasonal forecasts, agricultural seasonality and the vulnerability of populations at risk.
The State of the World’s Forests 2024
07/2024
This edition of The State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) provides highlights on the state of the world’s forests and explores the transformative power of evidence-based innovation in the forest sector, ranging from new technologies to creative and successful policies and institutional changes, to new ways of getting finance to forest owners and managers.