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Climate change, agriculture and food security
Major report, 2016
The 2016 SOFA report presents evidence on today and tomorrow’s impact of climate change on agriculture and food systems. The report assesses the options to make agriculture and food systems resilient to climate change impacts...
Climate change, agriculture and food security
Major report, 2016
This booklet summarizes the main information and conclusions of the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2016 report.
Unless action is taken now to make agriculture more sustainable, productive and resilient, climate change impacts will seriously compromise...
Social protection and agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty
Major report, 2015
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on reducing poverty have been met by many countries, yet many others lag behind and the post-2015 challenge will be the full eradication of poverty and hunger. Many developing countries...
Social protection and agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty
Major report, 2015
A shorter version of the FAO flagship publication The State of Food and Agriculture 2015, the In Brief is aimed at the media, policymakers and more general public.
The critical role of investments in social protection and agriculture
Major report, 2015
This paper provides estimates of investment costs, both public and private, required to eliminate chronic dietary energy deficits, or to achieve zero hunger by 2030. This target is consistent with achieving both the Sustainable Development...
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Meeting the 2015 international hunger targets: taking stock of uneven progress
Major report, 2015
This year´s annual State of Food Insecurity in the World report takes stock of progress made towards achieving the internationally established Millennium Development Goal (MDG1) and World Food Summit hunger targets and reflects on what...
Meeting the 2015 international hunger targets: taking stock of uneven progress
Major report, 2015
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015 takes stock of progress made since 1990 towards Millennium Development Goal 1, to “eradicate extreme poverty and hunger”, and World Food Summit hunger targets. Key success...
Innovation in family farming
Major report, 2014
More than 500 million family farms manage the majority of the world’s agricultural land and produce most of the world’s food. We need family farms to ensure global food security, to care for and protect...
Innovation in family farming
Major report, 2014
A shorter version of the FAO flagship publication The State of Food and Agriculture 2014, the In Brief is aimed at the media, policymakers and more general public.
Strengthening the enabling environment for food security and nutrition
Major report, 2014
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014 presents updated estimates of undernourishment and progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and World Food Summit (WFS) hunger targets. A stock-taking of where we stand...