Books published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Provides an overview of key elements for developing peatland maps and integrating them into national land use monitoring systems and reporting processes. The report describes the advantages and limitations of different choices and offers practical guidance to facilitate decision-making.

This report finds that the total forest growing stock in the region has increased over the last 30 years, while forest area and other woodland areas continue to decline due to land-use changes in the Sahelian countries.

La pandemie de covid-19 a fait apparaitre au grand jour la vulnerabilite des systemes agroalimentaires face aux chocs et aux situations de stress et entraine une augmentation de l'insecurite alimentaire et de la malnutrition au niveau mondial.

Presents country-level indicators of the resilience of agri-food systems. The indicators measure the robustness of primary production and food availability, as well as physical and economic access to food. They can thus help assess the capacity of national agri-food systems to absorb shocks and stresses, a key aspect of resilience.

Reviews the COVID-19 policies of 19 countries in the Near East and North Africa. The report demonstrates that most of the oil- and gas-rich countries are able to redirect resources to priority sectors while relatively poor countries may need external financial aid.

Uses a nutritional water productivity (NWP) framework to interpret the relationship between nutrition and water in the context of water challenges. The report argues that increasing crop yields in water-stressed areas requires agricultural transformation.

This technical document emphasizes that water savings can help agriculture become more productive. It lists interventions that can increase water productivity and reduce water consumption, such as drip irrigation, regulated deficit irrigation, and sprinkler irrigation.

A review of the existing legislative framework that provides guidance on authorization for phytosanitary actions. The most common action is treatment followed by diagnostics. Authorization programmes are being used for audit, destruction, inspection, sampling, and surveillance.

Le rapport presente l'etat des connaissances sur la biodiversite des sols les menaces qui pesent sur elle et les solutions que la biodiversite des sols peut offrir a des problemes dans divers domaines notamment l'agriculture la nutrition et les produits pharmaceutiques.

Overviews five groups of vulnerable species, including seabirds, sea turtles, elasmobranchs, marine mammals and macrobenthic invertebrates. The publication aims to raise stakeholders' awareness on the importance of these species to local ecosystems.

Introduces FAO's work on biodiversity mainstreaming in Asia and the Pacific, focusing particularly on biodiversity-friendly practices that could be scaled up, as well as pervasive community practices that are causing habitat and biodiversity loss, such as ghost fishing, deforestation, land conversion, monoculture, and slash and burn habits.

Provides an overview of innovations and best practices across sub-Saharan Africa through 22 case studies. These include a women's informal huckleberry value chain financing system in Cameroon and small farmer insurance in Ethiopia.

Para hacer frente al sobrepeso y la obesidad Chile implemento una ley que exige el uso de etiquetas de advertencia en los alimentos de alto contenido energetico. Este documento evalua la respuesta del sector de la produccion de alimentos a la aplicacion de la primera fase de la ley.

From guidance on pesticide legislation to a pesticide registration toolkit, this compendium provides a brief description of all the technical documents, manuals, databases and other resources for pesticide management developed by FAO and WHO.