The Advisory Committee on Sustainable Forest-based Industries is a FAO statutory body composed of senior executives from the private industry sector worldwide. It meets yearly with the main objective of providing guidance on activities and programme of work of the [...]

The Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) is an inter-Agency Platform to enhance food market transparency and encourage coordination of policy action in response to market uncertainty. The initial focus of AMIS is on four crops that are particularly important in [...]

The LEAP Partnership was founded in 2012 as a result of a consultative process between FAO’s Animal Production and Health Division with three stakeholder groups (governments, private sector and civil society). The overarching goal of this initiative is to contribute to [...]

The objectives of the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade entered into force on 24 February 2004. The Convention creates legally binding obligations for the implementation of the Prior [...]