Rural migration in Senegal
2018
This animated video provides a snapshot of rural migration in Senegal, focusing on the rural regions of Kaolack and Matam - which are particularly affected by out-migration. The video highlights...
Categories: Video
Securing sustainable small-scale fisheries in the context of food security and poverty eradication
2018
Empowering small-scale fisheries: the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication. Short animated video that wants to trigger awareness and discussion about...
Categories: Video
Regional overview of national school food and nutrition programmes in Africa
2018
School feeding programmes are recognized as a key part of food assistance and relief in emergency and development programmes. They are principally concerned with transfer of food to school to...
Categories: Issue paper
Eleventh WTO Ministerial Conference (MC11): outcomes for agriculture and fisheries. Trade Policy Technical Notes No. 31. WTO negotiation
2018
The briefs presents the main outcomes of MC11. Four Ministerial decisions on various trade issues, including on fisheries subsidies, e-commerce and small economies are briefly presented. No update for agriculture as no...
Categories: Brief, Policy brief
FAO Technical Guide 2. Integrating gender into the design of cash transfer and public works programmes
2018
Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries or recipients of benefits. Extending social protection to rural populations has great...
Categories: Tool, Guidelines & methodologies
Improving governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests
2018
The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, known as the VGGT, promote secure tenure rights and...
Categories: Brief, Project highlights
Rural migration in Tunisia
2018
The RuMiT (Rural Migration in Tunisia) research addresses the determinants of migration and mobility, the patterns and types of rural youth outmigration and the impact of rural youth migration on...
Implementing the food and nutrition security strategy in Afghanistan
2018
Food and nutrition insecurity is a severe and widespread problem in Afghanistan. About 30 percent of the population is food insecure, and 40 percent of Afghan children under five years...
Categories: Brief, Project highlights
Feeding People, Protecting the Planet. FAO and the GEF
2018
Aligned with the GEF cross-cutting corporate strategy on capacity development (CD) FAO believes that robust and systemwide CD approaches are essential to enhance the impact, sustainability and scale of GEF projects...
Global Strategy on Agricultural and Rural Statistics (GSARS)
2018
The initiative to develop the Global Strategy to improve agricultural and rural statistics (GSARS) came as a response to address developing countries’ lack of capacity to provide reliable statistical data...
Categories: Tool
World Programme for the Census of Agriculture (WCA) 2020
2018
Each round of agricultural censuses covers a ten-year period. The present round (WCA 2020) covers agricultural censuses to be undertaken between 2016 and 2025. The census of agriculture continues to...
Categories: Tool, Guidelines & methodologies
Strengthening national data collection and regional data sharing through FIRMS to support priority regional fishery management plans in the WECAFC area: GCP/SLC/007/EC
2018
ENHANCING FISHERY MANAGEMENT IN THE WESTERN CENTRAL ATLANTIC FISHERY COMMISSION AREA At the 14th and 15th sessions of the Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission (WECAFC), the European Union (EU) member countries...
Categories: Brief, Project highlights
Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)
2018
Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) is experience-based measures of household or individual food security. The FIES Survey Module (FIES-SM) consists of eight questions regarding people's access to adequate food, and can...
Asia and the Pacific − Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2018: Accelerating progress towards the SDGs
2018
This report reveals that some 486 million people remain undernourished in the region, highlighting that the reduction in the number of hungry and malnourished people – including children – has...
Categories: Report
MAFAP data: policy monitoring indicators
2018
The Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme seeks to establish country owned sustainable systems to monitor, analyse, and reform food and agricultural policies to enable more effective,...
Categories: Data and statistics
Strengthening Sector Policies for Better Food Security and Nutrition Results. Food Systems for Healthy Diets. Policy Guidance Note 12
2018
This policy guidance note is part of a series that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and partners are producing to support policy makers address the...
Categories: Tool, Guidelines & methodologies
Parliamentary alliances against hunger and malnutrition. First Global Parliamentary Summit
2018
For the third year in a row, hunger is on the rise again and affects 821 million people in the world. In addition, one third of the global population suffers...
Categories: Issue paper
FAO Technical Guide 1. Introduction to gender-sensitive social protection programming to combat rural poverty. Why is it important and what does it mean?
2018
Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries or recipients of benefits. Extending social protection to rural populations has great...
Categories: Tool, Guidelines & methodologies
FAO Migration Framework. In brief
2018
The drivers and impacts of migration are intimately linked to FAO's global goals of eradicating hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition, eliminating poverty and promoting the sustainable management and utilization of...
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018. Building climate resilience for food security and nutrition
2018
New evidence this year corroborates the rise in world hunger observed in this report last year, sending a warning that more action is needed if we aspire to end world...
Categories: Report