Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Food products have been the third most valuable commodity group traded internationally, and imports constitute a significant proportion of the food supplies of developing countries in particular. FAO...

Europe and Central Asia encompasses great economic, social and environmental diversity, its countries are facing various food security and nutrition challenges. While they have made significant...

This publication offers facilitators technical guidance to manage field farm schools to support local famers in all aspects of rice crop management. Technical knowledge gained by farmers will...

The FAO Production Yearbook presents a compilation of statistical data on basic agricultural products for all countries and territories of the world. The Yearbook includes data series on area, yield...

This Yearbook is based on data submitted by member countries in response to standard questionnaires, supplemented by reviews of national sources. The Introduction offers additional background...

The FAO Statistical Yearbook is published annually in two separate issues: the first providing data by topic for all countries and the second providing data for each country covering all topics. It is...

The FAO Statistical Yearbook, the first volume of which was issued in 2004, covers a wide spectrum of statistics and indicators belonging to several thematic topics and serves as a reference guide to...

The FAO Trade Yearbook presents a compilation of statistical data on basic food and agricultural products for all countries and territories of the world. The Yearbook includes commodity trade tables...

The FAO Trade Yearbook presents a compilation of statistical data on basic food and agricultural products for all countries and territories of the world. The Yearbook contains commodity trade tables...

This new, updated version of the FAOSTAT-CD incorporates statistical information as available on-line at the end of May 2005, covering more than 300 countries and territories and 3000 items in the...

This document summarizes four decades of statistics of apparent consumption of fish and fishery products for 220 countries, six continental aggregates, four economic groupings and world totals. Data...

This report presents forest changes in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) over a period of 25 years between 1990 and 2015. It describes key drivers that have affected these changes and attempts to...

This publication discusses the international Zero Hunger agenda in light of the achievements of the Fome Zero programme in Brazil. It revisits successful initiatives and discusses current actions...

For centuries people in Asia and the Pacific region have grown and consumed a wide variety of nutritious foods. Unfortunately, more recent generations have slowly but surely changed their diets and...

This publication looks at the benefits of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) when placed in the hands of men and women working in agriculture and in rural areas. It examines the...

The world’s forest resources provide renewable raw materials and energy, maintain biological diversity, mitigate climate change, protect land and water resources, provide recreation facilities...

The Global Rinderpest Action Plan aims to ensure continued global freedom from rinderpest by outlining the actions necessary to prepare for, respond to and recover from a rinderpest outbreak. FAO and...

A great deal of knowledge on classical biological control has been accumulated worldwide in the last few decades. This publication, which was written by a team of experts, distills that information in...