Using artificial intelligence to assess FAO’s knowledge base on the technology accelerator

09/2023

This report examines the technology accelerator trends across publicly available FAO knowledge reports, technical guidance and convening summaries.

Urbanization, agrifood systems transformation and healthy diets across the rural–urban continuum

07/2023

This report provides an update on global progress towards the targets of ending hunger (SDG Target 2.1) and all forms of malnutrition (SDG Target 2.2) and estimates on the number of people who are unable to afford a healthy diet.

Digitalization and child labour in agriculture

06/2023

This paper is the product of a collaboration between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Wageningen University and Research (WUR) to explore the potential application of innovative technologies to improve data collection and risk estimation of child labour in the cocoa sector.

The status of women in agrifood systems

04/2023

Guide on digital agricultural extension and advisory services – Use of smartphone applications by smallholder farmers

04/2023

Pro-Sahel – Innovation and technology in small-scale irrigation systems for small-scale producers in the Sahel

02/2023

Gene editing and agrifood systems

12/2022

The future of food and agriculture – Drivers and triggers for transformation

12/2022

The State of Food and Agriculture 2022

11/2022

Leveraging agricultural automation for transforming agrifood systems

Introducing the Agrifood Systems Technologies and Innovations Outlook

10/2022

FAO Science and Innovation Strategy

10/2022

Small-scale producers in sustainable agrifood systems transformation

09/2022

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

08/2022

A sustainable and stable energy supply is essential for a country’s stability and wellbeing.

Forest products in the global bioeconomy

07/2022

Enabling substitution by wood-based products and contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals

Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

05/2022

Status of digital agriculture in 47 sub-Saharan African countries

03/2022

Sub-Saharan Africa is uniquely positioned significantly increase its...

The use of solar energy in irrigated agriculture

03/2022

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

03/2022

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.

The digital blue revolution

02/2022

How digital technologies - including cloud computing, the internet of things; artificial intelligence and machine learning - are facilitating the advance of precision aquaculture.

Digital innovation strategy for agrifood systems in Africa

02/2022

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..