Publications

Insights from Côte d’Ivoire, Cambodia, the Pacific, Guatemala and Albania

01/09/2024

The need to shift towards new ways of thinking and working to address the current global challenges is implied in the growing conversation around agrifood systems, systems approaches and transformation. While increasingly used, these terms are far from being universally understood.

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) 2024

01/07/2024

SOFI 2024 provides time-critical recommendations for more efficient use of innovative financing tools, and for reforms to the food security and nutrition financing architecture.

The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2024

02/06/2024

The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA) is a flagship report of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which provides a comprehensive analysis of the global and regional status and trends in fisheries and aquaculture.

Good packaging practices for micro, small and medium-sized food processing enterprises in the Caribbean Community and Common Market

01/06/2024

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) continue to serve as a major source of employment and income generation in the agriculture and tourism sectors in countries of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM). Most MSMEs are small businesses run by families or by a few individuals. While this helps to keep labour and overhead costs to a minimum, it creates a suboptimum economy of scale.

Value chains of mackerel scad and tuna-like species caught by the semi-industrial fishing fleet of Cabo Verde

01/05/2024

This report was developed under the Korean-funded “Sustainable Fish Value Chains for Small Island Developing States” project. The project aims to contribute to economic growth, job creation, and food and nutrition security. This publication summarizes a much more detailed report focusing on the semi-industrial value chains of mackerel scad and tuna-like species in Cabo Verde.

Climate-related development finance to agrifood systems

01/02/2024

The amount of climate finance flowing to agrifood systems is strikingly low and continues to diminish vis-à-vis global climate finance flows. Agriculture is one of the sectors with the highest adaptation finance needs for implementing the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) but climate finance for adaptation is also on a downward trend. The diminishing trends of both agrifood and adaptation investments is a cause for alarm and a missed opportunity.

Small Island Developing States, Least Developed Countries and Landlocked Developing Countries