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  • Screening for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems: Guidance and Tools for Government Officials

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    They can also enable governments to identify and shape responsible projects, establish a country's credibility as an investment destination with an effective enabling environment for responsible investment, establish good government – community – investor relationships, and lay the foundations for informed expectations and decisions about a proposed project. This publication seeks to unpack the ... Read more

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  • The State of the World’s Forests 2020: Forests, Biodiversity and People

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    As the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity 2011–2020 comes to a close and countries prepare to adopt a post-2020 global biodiversity framework, this edition of The State of the World's Forests (SOFO) examines the contributions of forests, and of the people who use and manage them, to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.Forests cover just over 30 percent of the global land area, ... Read more

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  • Guidelines for Assessing Nutrition-Related Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Having physical and economic access to food on their own are not sufficient to ensure that people are food secure and well nourished. It is essential that people understand what constitutes a healthy diet; in particular, what nutrition-related health issues affect their communities and how to address these through food-based approaches, and know how to make the best use of their resources. They ... Read more

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  • Good Beekeeping Practices for Sustainable Apiculture

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Bees provide a critical link in the maintenance of ecosystems, pollination. They play a major role in maintaining biodiversity, ensuring the survival of many plants, enhancing forest regeneration, providing sustainability and adaptation to climate change and improving the quality and quantity of agricultural production systems. In fact, close to 75 percent of the world's crops that produce fruits ... Read more

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  • The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022: Towards Blue Transformation

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    The 2022 edition of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture coincides with the launch of the Decade of Action to deliver the Global Goals, the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. It presents how these and other equally important United Nations events, such as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems: Insights on Sustainability and Resilience from the Front Line of Climate Change

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This publication provides an overview of the common and unique sustainability elements of Indigenous Peoples' food systems, in terms of natural resource management, access to the market, diet diversity, indigenous peoples' governance systems, and links to traditional knowledge and indigenous languages. While enhancing the learning on Indigenous Peoples food systems, it will raise awareness on the ... Read more

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  • Pesticides and Environmental Incidents: Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Incidents involving pesticide use with negative repercussions on human health and the environment regularly occur. While poisoning incidents involving humans are more frequently reported, data related to environmental incidents are comparatively scarce. This report provides a brief overview of the situation and it highlights, based on wideranging examples, some of the main challenges related to ... Read more

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  • Integrating Gender into the Design of Cash Transfer and Public Works Programmes – Fao Technical Guide 2: A Toolkit on Gender-Sensitive Social Protection Programmes to Combat Rural Poverty and Hunger

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries or recipients of benefits. Extending social protection to rural populations has great potential for fostering rural women's economic empowerment. However, to tap into this potential, more needs to be done. There is much scope for making social protection ... Read more

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  • Assessing the Governance of Tenure for Improving Forests and Livelihoods: A Tool to Support the Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    It uses the internationally endorsed Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGT) as its basis. Forest tenure review may be conducted in the context of policy or legal reform, to inform Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) policy formulation, to improve understanding of a specific tenure system that is under ... Read more

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  • Voluntary Guidelines for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Crop Wild Relatives and Wild Food Plants

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Unfortunately, their natural wild habitats are increasingly under threat from both human activities and natural disasters. Habitat loss has a direct, negative impact on the diversity of these valuable resources. These guidelines, intended as reference materials for preparing a National Plan for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Crop Wild Relatives and Wild Food Plants, will contribute to ... Read more

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  • The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017. Building Resilience for Peace and Food Security

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This year's The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World warns that the long-term declining trend in undernourishment seems to have come to a halt and may have reversed, largely on account of the above-mentioned factors. Meanwhile, though progress continues to be made in reducing child malnutrition, rising overweight and obesity are a concern in most parts of the world.These and other ... Read more

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  • Techno-Economic Performance Review of Selected Fishing Fleets in Europe

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This techno-economic performance review of selected fishing fleets in Europe presents the findings of European country level studies of fishing fleets of Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The review includes financial and economic information of 42 fishing fleet segments, including demersal trawlers, purse seiners, ... Read more

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