Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Henning Steinfeld

T. D. Wassenaar

Vincent Castel

Mauricio Rosales M.

Pierre Gerber

Mauricio Rosales

Cees de Haan

"The assessment builds on the work of the Livestock, Environment and Development (LEAD) Initiative"--Pref.

Environmental Issues and Options

Livestock's Long Shadow

Arnold van Huis

Edible insects have always been a part of human diets, but in some societies there remains a degree of disdain and disgust for their consumption. Insects offer a significant opportunity to merge traditional knowledge and modern science to improve human food security worldwide. This publication describes the contribution of insects to food security and examines future prospects for raising insects at a commercial scale to improve food and feed production, diversify diets, and support livelihoods in both developing and developed countries. Edible insects are a promising alternative to the conventional production of meat, either for direct human consumption or for indirect use as feedstock. This publication will boost awareness of the many valuable roles that insects play in sustaining nature and human life, and it will stimulate debate on the expansion of the use of insects as food and feed.

Future Prospects for Food and Feed Security

Edible Insects

The World Sugar Economy in Figures

Commodity Reference Series

Zhejiang University

This publication, produced by FAO and Zhejiang University, examines how rural e-commerce could advance the digital transformation of agri-food systems, including increasing production efficiency, expanding farmers’ market access, improving poverty alleviation, fostering agricultural entrepreneurship, and attracting young generations back to their villages for economic revival and rural revitalization. It is highlighted that an enabling ecosystem with favourable government policies and strategies, public-private partnerships and innovative business models is of great importance to accelerate the development of rural areas in China, and generate larger economic, social and environmental impacts. As the largest developing country in the world, the experience of digital agriculture transformation in China could be shared with other developing countries. The report also discusses some of the challenges encountered and lessons learned during the development of rural e-commerce, as well as the proposals for the way forward.

Digital agriculture report: Rural e-commerce development experience from China

Duke University

WorldFish

This document has been adapted from the research protocol used to compile country case study data and to produce the results summarized in the 2023 report titled Illuminating Hidden Harvests: The contributions of small-scale fisheries to sustainable development (hereafter, IHH study) (FAO, Duke University & WorldFish, 2023). It has also been designed in conjunction with the e-learning course titled Collecting secondary data on small-scale fisheries, and aims to support practitioners and researchers around the world in compiling national and subnational data and assess the contributions and impacts of small-scale fisheries of interest to sustainable development. These contributions of small-scale fisheries are categorized according to the environmental, economic and social (including gender equality and nutrition and food security) dimensions of sustainable development, as well as the governance of small-scale fisheries. The approach to compile IHH data was developed in a way that: (i) is adaptable to each country’s context and data availability; and (ii) is comprehensive yet straightforward and cost-effective. While originally designed to be conducted at the national level, this approach can and should be modified as desired to fit different scales of study, and to respond to the particular needs and priorities of individual researchers’ regions of interest. As the name implies, the approach was designed to compile existing data on small-scale fisheries, and not to collect it. Rather, this approach only reinforces the importance of collecting more detailed data specific to small-scale fisheries (for example, as distinct from large-scale fisheries, aquaculture and recreational fisheries), in order to help fill the knowledge gap on small-scale fisheries’ contributions to sustainable development. Given the vast diversity of small-scale fisheries in different countries, a standard definition of “small-scale fisheries” is not prescribed here, nor in the IHH study; researchers should refer to the definitions used in each country context. However, to better characterize fisheries and the differences among them that often contribute to local definitions of small or large-scale fisheries, the IHH study and this approach used a fisheries activity characterization matrix. This tool provides a characterization of the small-scale fisheries subsector at the country level and allows researchers to assess the “scale” of small-scale fishing activities in a more relational manner, thus avoiding the imposition of fixed definitions.

Compiling data on the contributions of small-scale fisheries to sustainable development

Applying the Illuminating Hidden Harvests approach

FAO Agricultural Development Paper

Yezi Agricultural University

The “Sustainable Cropland and Forest Management in Priority Agro-ecosystems of Myanmar” Project of FAO in Myanmar is a five-year project (2016-2021) funded by Global Environment Facility (GEF) and being jointly coordinated and implemented by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MoNREC) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation (MoALI). The project has supported establishment of a National CSA at Yezin Agriculture University in Myanmar. One of the key activities of the National CSA Center is to organize annual workshop/conference to share ideas, opportunities and challenges with regards to CSA and SLM and to discuss on the way forwards. Such workshops will focus on different themes of CSA and SLM every year. Accordingly, the first workshop was organized by the CSA Center at YAU on 14th Sep 2018 and the theme of this workshop was “Promoting Climate Smart Agriculture in Myanmar”. This proceeding presents the background of the project and workshop and compiles all the papers presented during the workshop.

Proceedings of the National Workshop on Promoting Climate Smart Agriculture in Myanmar

G. Dixie

Aims at providing appropriate resource and training material on marketing for extension officers working with farmers who produce horticultural produce for both domestic and export markets.

A Resource and Training Manual for Extension Officers

Horticultural Marketing

H. M. Gregersen

Arnoldo H. Contreras

Economic Assessment of Forestry Project Impacts

World Health Organization

Report 2022: pesticide residues in food - Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues

This book provides a comprehensive evaluation of pesticide residues in food, based on the 2021 Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues. It includes toxicological assessments and reviews, focusing on both new and previously evaluated substances. The work is based on proprietary data submitted for the purpose of the Joint Meeting's assessments. The book targets regulatory authorities, researchers, and professionals in food safety and public health, aiming to guide the safe use and regulation of pesticides in food. It underscores the importance of obtaining authorization for data use in pesticide registration and emphasizes the World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization's roles in ensuring food safety standards.

Pesticide residues in food 2021. Joint FAO/WHO meeting on pesticide residues. Evaluation Part II – Toxicological

Selected Papers of an Expert Consultation Held in Jakarta, Indonesia, 30 September-6 October 1985

Appropriate Forest Industries

This series of identification guides provide information on the species of interest to fisheries of the major marine resource groups exploited in the Western Central Pacific region. Information is arranged according to higher taxonomic levels such as class, order and family, with species in the important families treated in detail. This volume covers species from Labridae to Latimeriidae, which relate to estuarine crocodiles, sea turtles, sea snakes and marine mammals.

Labridae to Latimeriidae - Estuarine Crocodiles, Sea Turtles, Sea Snakes and Marine ... ... 6 (Fao Species Identification Field Guides)

The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific

Background to fodder oats worldwide; Fodder oats; an overview; Fodder oats in North America; Fodder oats: an overview for South America; Fodder oats in the Maghreb; Fodder oats in Pakistan; Fodder oats in the Himalayas; Fodder oats in China; Fodder oats in New Zealand and Australia- history, production and potential; Fodder oats in Europe; Oat diseases and their control; Perspectives for fodder oats.

A World Overview

Fodder Oats

Daniel Pauly

This selection of methods is based on lecture notes used at a FAO/DANIDA training course held in Mombasa, Kenya, in May-June 1980. The methods presented are: regression and correlation, estimation of growth parameters from length-frequency data, estimation of mortalities (total, natural, fishing mortality) and analysis of catch and effort data. A brief annotated bibliography of tropical fish stock assessment is included.

Some Simple Methods for the Assessment of Tropical Fish Stocks

This book brings together studies by national scientists on traditional transhumant grazing systems, emphasizing grazing management and overall land use. Focus is on two zones in temperate Asia: the Himalaya-Hindu Kush and the colder areas of China, Mongolia and parts of Central Asia. Under prevailing conditions, mobile herding is the only sustainable way the population can make best use of the natural resources, but systems were dislocated by collectivization. In the Himalaya there is conflict between herders and sedentary groups. While poor pasture condition is a major constraint, the main problems are socio-economic and institutional and relate to land tenure and grazing rights. Fodder crops are, however, of great interest for settled groups who use the same pastures. Focus on technical solutions, herder training and participatory approaches should be within the context of political decisions.--Publisher's description.

Transhumant Grazing Systems in Temperate Asia

World Organisation for Animal Health

The publication describes best practices for mentorship within the training programme, defines competencies for mentors and provides a tool for evaluating the mentorship programme.

a supplemental manual to the Competencies for One Health field epidemiology (COHFE) framework

Guidance for One Health field epidemiology mentorship

Catalogue

The FAO Yearbook of Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics, prepared by the Statistics Team of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, offers a synthesis of the major trends in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. Statistics are presented in eight main thematic chapters, covering statistics of production (total, aquaculture, capture fisheries), employment, fleet, consumption and trade, together with a section with selected tables and an Annex including notes, concepts, classifications and a map of FAO major fishing areas. The Yearbook is meant to constitute a primary tool for policymakers, researchers and analysts, as well as for the general public interested in the past and current paths of the sector.

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