Publications
Highlights
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The State of Food and Agriculture 2022
2022
Leveraging agricultural automation for transforming agrifood systems
FAO Science and Innovation Strategy
2022
The Strategy aims to strengthen FAO’s work on science and innovation by providing Organization-wide guidance, coherence and alignment on science and innovation. Science and innovation serve as a foundation for the FAO Strategic Framework 2022–31 and have cross-sectoral relevance across the Organization’s programme of work.
Small-scale producers in sustainable agrifood systems transformation
2022
If the world is to transition towards agrifood systems that are more sustainable and equitable, small-scale production systems will be key to progress.
Bioenergy and food security (BEFS) assessment – Seychelles
2022
A sustainable and stable energy supply is essential for a country’s stability and wellbeing.
Forest products in the global bioeconomy
2022
Enabling substitution by wood-based products and contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals
2022 Global Food Policy Report: Climate Change and Food Systems
2022
The 2022 Global Food Policy Report sets out a broad range of opportunities for accelerated action that should be considered in policy and investment decision-making for climate change adaptation, mitigation, and resilience.
Reducing Consumer Food Waste Using Green and Digital Technologies
2022
This report provides an overview of the causes of consumer food waste and the opportunities for reducing it through: behavioural change, technological solutions, and public and private initiatives to mitigate the problem.
The digitalisation of agriculture: A literature review and emerging policy issues
2022
A literature review and emerging policy issues. Digitalisation offers the potential to help address the productivity, sustainability and resilience challenges facing agriculture.
Status of digital agriculture in 47 sub-Saharan African countries
2022
Sub-Saharan Africa is uniquely positioned significantly increase its...
The use of solar energy in irrigated agriculture
2022
In the last decade, solar energy has experienced a rapid growth, which brings both environmental and economic benefits. In many countries, there is still no electricity grid extension in rural areas, and in the absence of a reliable electricity supply, farmers have to resort to diesel-based pumping irrigation systems.
Thinking about the future of food safety. A foresight report
2022
Agrifood systems are undergoing a transformation with the aim to provide safer, more affordable, and healthier diets for all, produced in a sustainable manner while delivering just and equitable livelihoods: a key to achieving the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Digital innovation strategy for agrifood systems in Africa
2022
The Digital Innovation Strategy (DIS) of the Regional Office for Africa (RAF) of FAO has been prepared to respond to critical challenges facing inclusive and sustainable agrifood system transformation in sub-Saharan Africa. It is enshrined in the new Strategic framework 2022–2030 that aims to accelerate the "transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems..
The digital blue revolution
2022
How digital technologies - including cloud computing, the internet of things; artificial intelligence and machine learning - are facilitating the advance of precision aquaculture.
Transforming Food Systems: Pathways for Country-led Innovation
2022
The need to urgently transition food systems to net-zero, nature-positive that can nourish all people, leaving no one behind is more critical than ever. The COVID-19 pandemic has furthered deepened complex challenges we already face from hunger and nutrition, climate and nature, and societal inequity.
2021 FAO Innovation Survey
2021
The 2021 FAO Innovation survey was carried out to understand the extent of knowledge and expertise on innovation among staff at a critical turning point in the Organization’s approach to innovation.