Publications

Finance

Even before the outbreak of COVID-19, one in five countries – home to billions of people living in poverty – were likely to see per capita incomes stagnate or decline in 2020. Now, billions more are prone to be affected…

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Health

Experts from FAO analyse how the emerging COVID-19 pandemic affects agricultural markets – both on the supply and the demand side.

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Food systems

Inclusive food systems could help people to withstand shocks, providing opportunities to improve food and nutrition security, generate income, and drive inclusive economic growth, states this report.

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Gender

Woman play an important, though often invisible, role in agriculture. This publication aims to provide guidance to foster gender equality and women’s empowerment in agricultural supply chains.

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SDGs

This report warns that the region remains unlikely to meet any of the 17 SDGs by 2030 without concerted and extra efforts from all stakeholders. There is a striking lack of progress on environmental SDGs in Asia-Pacific,…

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Environment

Peatlands have a great potential to influence global greenhouse gas emissions, explain the authors of this report, who encourage sustainable peatland management to avoid the degradation of these valuable ecosystems.

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Climate change

This report highlights the increasing signs and impacts of climate change in the atmosphere, oceans and on land.

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Poverty reduction

The drivers of fragility and conflict need to be tackled urgently in order to achieve the global poverty goals, a new report by the World Bank states.

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Population

This report sheds a light on inequality - focusing on technology, climate change, urbanisation and migration.

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Organic farming

Global organic agriculture continues to grow, as the latest data on organic farming worldwide in this publications shows. It reveals that 2018 was another record year for global organic agriculture.

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