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Monitoring progress towards the World Food Summit and Millennium Development Goals
Major report, 2004
The sixth edition of The State of Food Insecurity in the World reports that the number of chronically hungry people in the developing world has fallen by only 9 million since the World Food Summit...
Agricultural biotechnology: meeting the needs of the poor?
Major report, 2004
This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture explores the potential for agricultural biotechnology to address the needs of the world's poor and food-insecure. Agriculture continues to face serious challenges, including feeding an additional...
Monitoring progress towards the World Food Summit and Millennium Development Goals
Major report, 2003
FAO’s latest estimates of hunger around the world offer striking evidence that progress toward the World Food Summit (WFS) goal is possible. They also show conclusively that without redoubled national and global commitment the goal...
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Food insecurity – when people live with hunger and fear starvation
Major report, 2002
This fourth edition of The State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI) provides the latest estimates of the number of chronically hungry people in the world and reports on global and national efforts to...
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Agriculture and global public goods ten years after the Earth Summit
Major report, 2002
The centrality of food, agriculture and rural development to poverty alleviation and the eradication of hunger underlies most of The State of Food and Agriculture 2002. It attempts both to provide an overview of the...
Food insecurity – when people live with hunger and fear starvation
Major report, 2001
The State of Food Insecurity in the World reports on global and national efforts to reach the goal set by the 1996 World Food Summit: to reduce by half the number of undernourished people in...
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Economic impacts of transboundary plant pests and animal diseases
Major report, 2001
Five years after the World Food Summit, and at the beginning of the twenty-first century, The State of Food and Agriculture reflects on some of the main challenges faced in eliminating world hunger and poverty....
Lessons from the past 50 years
Major report, 2000
The State of Food and Agriculture 2000 reports only very modest growth in world agricultural production in 1998, and the estimates for 1999 do not appear to indicate any improvement. Particularly for the developing countries,...
Food insecurity – when people live with hunger and fear starvation
Major report, 2000
The state of food insecurity in the world (SOFI) was created to track progress towards ending this profound obstacle to human rights, quality of life and dignity. It was spurred by the 1996 World Food...
Available in:English