Publications
The State of Food and Agriculture 2025 Addressing land degradation across landholding scales
11/2025
The 2025 edition examines the implications of human-induced land degradation for agricultural production, producers of all scales and vulnerable populations. The report presents new findings on how cropland degradation contributes to the yield gap worldwide against a backdrop of broader degradation processes on other land cover types and even land abandonment.
RURAL POVERTY IN THE CARIBBEAN
12/2024
Environmental shocks and stresses have significant negative effects on all aspects of social and economic wellbeing. These negative effects are more immediately apparent in the agricultural sector. Extreme variations in the weather not only directly impact agricultural production, but there are also adverse effects on livelihoods, especially in rural agricultural/fisheries-dependent communities.
The quest for healthy diets
11/2024
What should we be eating? Is there one right answer? Is it as simple as choosing to eat well? Food must be nutritious for us to grow, work and thrive. Is it? Hardly. Current agrifood systems are failing us. What we eat was historically rooted in a place, a soil, a culture; it would reflect understandings of self and community, of heritage and values. Yet this is ever less the case. Dietary diversity is being lost.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2024
11/2024
Uncovering the true cost of food is the first step in making agrifood systems more inclusive, resilient and sustainable. As The State of Food and Agriculture 2023 revealed, agrifood systems activities generate significant benefits for society, but also have negative impacts on economic, social and environmental sustainability.
The rural multidimensional poverty index applied to Small Islands Developing States
11/2024
The rural multidimensional poverty index (R-MPI) fills an important research gap on accurate poverty measurement. This paper presents the technical summary and country results of the first application of the R-MPI to two Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) in the Pacific Community, Kiribati and the Marshall Islands.
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) 2024
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
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
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
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.