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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information. We help developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all. Since our founding in 1945, we have focused special attention on developing rural areas, home to 70 percent of the world's poor and hungry people.
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Displaying 1131 - 1135 of 5074Monitoring the implementation of the Second Global Plan of Action and preparing the Third Report on the State of the World’s Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Meeting Name: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Meeting symbol/code: CGRFA/WG-PGR-8/16/4
Session: Sess. 8
Enhancing countries’ capacity to report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on greenhouse gas emissions for the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use sector: Ecuador
Ecuador has submitted two national communications (NCs 2000, 2012) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), providing information on greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories, and measures to mitigate and to facilitate adequate adaptation to climate change among other information. In 2016, Ecuador also presented its First Biennial Update Report (BUR), which included the REDD+ technical annex to the BUR.
Situation des Forêts du monde 2016. Résumé
Une version abrégée des chapitres 1 à 3 du SOFO 2016: rapport sur la Situation des forêts du monde 2016. Cette brochure de 32 pages inclut les tableaux, figures et messages clés de la publication SOFO, et permet aux lecteurs d’accéder au contenu le plus important dans un format facile à utiliser. Cette brochure est également disponible http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5850e.pdf ">English et en http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5850s.pdf ">Español.
Strengthening resilience to food and nutrition insecurity in the Sahel and West Africa
In the Sahel, around 65 percent of the active population works in the agriculture sector and their livelihoods are therefore affected by climate change, markets and environmental factors. More than half of these are women. Recurring crises pose real concerns for the achievement of sustainable food and nutrition security in the region. The root causes of vulnerability to food insecurity and malnutrition are complex and multidimensional.
State of the World's Forests (SOFO) 2016 Infographic
This infographic illustrates key facts from the 2016 edition of the biannual FAO State of the World’s Forests report. The State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) 2016 shows that it is possible to increase agricultural productivity and food security while halting or even reversing deforestation, highlighting the successful efforts of Costa Rica, Chile, the Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Tunisia and Viet Nam.
Read the full report of the http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5588e.pdf ">State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) 2016.