Publications

Rural development

The report describes the systemic issues that have led to the situation we are in, identifies priorities for transforming our food systems and provides recommended actions to achieve meaningful change.

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This report calls for rethinking agricultural support schemes and repurposing damaging incentives to achieve more of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and realise the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration.

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Disasters

Viewed through a lens of interconnectivity, this new report shows how disasters build on impacts of the past and pave the way for future disasters.

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Water

This two-part report sheds light on the impact of water on migration and on the role of water in conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Approximately 40 per cent of all the food grown goes uneaten, according to a new WWF report, while per capita farm-stage losses are generally higher in industrialised regions.

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Water

Billions of people around the world, most of them living in rural areas, will be unable to access safely managed household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services in 2030 unless the rate of progress quadruples,…

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Plant protection

Climate change-induced pest dispersal and intensity threaten food security. Invasive pests are also one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss.

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Developing countries need to address the surge in discontent from before the COVID-19 pandemic if they are to build back better afterwards, this report says.

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Food security

There was a dramatic worsening of world hunger in 2020 - much of it likely related to the fallout of COVID-19, this report explains. It will take a tremendous effort for the world to honour its pledge to end hunger by…

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Agriculture

The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook presents production, consumption, trade and price trends for the coming decade and urges that global agri-food systems need to transform to reach the SDGs by 2030.

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