Publications

Disasters

Hydro-climatic disasters can cause poverty, spur migration and contribute to geopolitical instability. This report provides recommendations to reduce the economic, social and environmental costs of floods and droughts.

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Environment

Despite their importance for climate, nature and people, rangelands are threatened with escalating conversion and the drastic effects of climate change. This atlas aims to guide climate and biodiversity negotiators ahead…

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Environment

Our planet’s ecosystems are dying, and we are the ones who have to do something about this for the sake of the nature, ourselves and future generations, a new UNEP report illustrates.

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Soils

This report reveals soil pollution as one of the world’s major challenges for ecosystem restoration. Soil pollution has serious implications for agri-food systems and human health because of its long-term impact on the…

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Trade

This guide launched by FAO and the African Union Commission aims to help countries enter Africa's new single market.

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Rural development

Improved connectivity, not urban migration, is the best way to enhance development for people in rural areas according to this report.

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Nutrition

Every country in the world is affected by one or more forms of malnutrition. This handbook provides recommendations on how parliamentarians can contribute to improve food systems.

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Food security

The stark warning from the 2021 Global Report on Food Crises reveals that conflict, economic shocks often related to COVID-19 and extreme weather are continuing to push millions of people into acute food insecurity.

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Agroecology

In a recent publication, the FAO looks at the potential of agroecology to make food systems in Asia and the Pacific more sustainable and fit for a post-COVID future.

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Gender

This report measures both women’s power to make their own decisions about their bodies and the extent to which countries’ laws support or interfere with a woman’s right to make these decisions. The data show a strong…

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