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La situación de las mujeres en los sistemas agroalimentarios

Reports & Research
March, 2023
Global
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
food security
agriculture
women
El informe Situación de la mujer en los sistemas agroalimentarios proporciona los datos más recientes, las lecciones aprendidas y las recomendaciones para los encargados de formular políticas y tomar decisiones sobre el género en los sistemas agroalimentarios. Este informe revisa y analiza las oportunidades y limitaciones de las mujeres en los procesos económicos y sociales, al mismo tiempo que hace un balance y evalúa el progreso realizado para cerrar una serie de brechas de género.
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Panorama regional de la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional - América Latina y el Caribe 2022

Hacia una mejor asequibilidad de las dietas saludables

Reports & Research
January, 2023
Global
Land & Food Security
food security
agriculture
El informe de este año presenta una actualización de la situación de la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición en América Latina y el Caribe, incluyendo también estimaciones actualizadas sobre el costo y la asequibilidad de una dieta saludable (Parte 1).
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The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security: 2021

Reports & Research
April, 2021
Global
Land & Food Security
COVID-19
food security
climate change
natural disasters
agriculture
On top of a decade of exacerbated disaster loss, exceptional global heat, retreating ice and rising sea levels, humanity and our food security face a range of new and unprecedented hazards, such as megafires, extreme weather events, desert locust swarms of magnitudes previously unseen, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Agriculture underpins the livelihoods of over 2.5 billion people – most of them in low-income developing countries – and remains a key driver of development.
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Enhancing food security through forest landscape restoration

Reports & Research
January, 2015
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
agriculture
climate change
environment
food security
rural population
sustainable development
The case studies from Brazil, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, the Philippines and Viet Nam highlight how forest landscape restoration (FLR) interventions enhance food security. They illustrate the ‘win-win’ solutions that can enhance land functionality and productivity, develop resilient food systems and explore the long-term potential outputs and enabling conditions for FLR interventions.
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Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

Reports & Research
April, 2011
Global
Land & Investments
development
food security
agriculture
land investments
land rights
local communities
The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are a set of guidelines for States and companies to prevent, address and remedy human rights abuses committed in business operations.
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VGGT: Pilot project on the implementation of the OECD-FAO Guidance for Responsible Agricultural Supply Chains

Reports & Research
January, 2018
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
agriculture
fisheries
food security
forestry
land governance
land rights
land tenure
tenure security
sustainable development
VGGT
To support the practical application of the OECD-FAO Guidance, in early 2018 the OECD and FAO launched an implementation pilot with over thirty companies and industry initiatives. The first stage of the pilot was a baseline survey to assess how companies and industry initiatives are implementing the OECD-FAO Guidance and other related international standards. This report presents the findings of the baseline assessment.
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Gender and Climate Change: Overview Report

Training Resources & Tools
Reports & Research
November, 2011
Global
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Land & Food Security
food security
climate change
forestry
natural disasters
land rights
agriculture
Climate change is increasingly being recognised as a global crisis, but responses to it have so far been overly focused on scientific and economic solutions. How then do we move towards more people-centred, gender-aware climate change policies and processes? How do we both respond to the different needs and concerns of women and men and challenge the gender inequalities that mean women are more likely to lose out than men in the face of climate change? This report sets out why it is vital to address the gender dimensions of climate change.
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Vencer la crisis alimentaria mundial 2017

Reports & Research
September, 2017
Global
agriculture
food security
La edición del décimo aniversario del Observatorio del Derecho a la Alimentación y a la Nutrición hace balance de la última década y mira al futuro para analizar los desafíos y las oportunidades que pueden anticiparse para los años venideros. Su objetivo es contribuir a la lucha por la realización del derecho a la alimentación y a la nutrición y por la soberanía alimentaria, y a vencer la actual crisis multidimensional.
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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2008
Republic of Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Eastern Asia, Oceania
Land & Food Security
agriculture
farmers
farmland
food security
land reform
rural development
rural population
The story of agricultural policy in Northeast Asia over the past 50 years illustrates the dramatic changes that can occur in distortions to agricultural incentives faced by producers and consumers at different stages of economic development.
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Food and Agriculture: Driving action across the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Reports & Research
June, 2017
Global
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
agricultural land management
agriculture
farmers
food security
Our planet faces multiple and complex challenges in the twenty-first century. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development commits the international community to act together to overcome them and transform our world for present and future generations.