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Community Organizations Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Acronym
FAO
United Nations Agency

Focal point

Javier Molina Cruz
Phone number
+390657051

Location

Headquarters
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00153
Rome
Italy
Working languages
Arabic
Chinese
English
Spanish
French

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.

Members:

Naomi Kenney
Ilario Rea
Ana Paula De Lao
Marianna Bicchieri
Valerio Tranchida
Dubravka Bojic
Margret Vidar
Brad Paterson
Carolina Cenerini
VG Tenure
Stefanie Neno
Julien Custot
Francesca Gianfelici
Giulio DiStefano
Renata Mirulla
Gerard Ciparisse
Jeff Tschirley
Marieaude Even
Richard Eberlin
Yannick Fiedler
Rumyana Tonchovska
Ann-Kristin Rothe
Sally Bunning
Imma Subirats

Resources

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Improving governance of pastoral lands - Implementing the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

Manuals & Guidelines
February, 2016
Global

The technical guide on improving the governance of pastoral lands is designed for several audiences including government and non-government actors. It covers specific challenges of pastoral tenure that are unique to pastoralism and considers how these different facets of pastoralist tenure (issues of the commons; free, prior and informed consent (FPIC); gender etc.) can be combined in a coherent approach to securing pastoral lands.

Afghanistan Agriculture Information Portal (AAIP)

Policy Papers & Briefs
February, 2016
Afghanistan
Asia

The Afghanistan Agriculture Information Portal (AAIP) is a web data dissemination platform for crop production statistics and crop conditions. It manages spatial (satellite images and thematic layers) and non-spatial data (crop, climatic and hydrologic) that national or sub-national institutions generate or collect regarding crop monitoring. It aims to provide this information useful for decision-making by top management, farmers and other stakeholders in a country like Afghanistan where more than 80% of people.

Boosting Africa’s Soils

Policy Papers & Briefs
February, 2016
Tanzania
Ghana
Guinea
Somalia
Nigeria
Africa

This booklet presents an overview of the issue of soil management practices in Africa. It briefly presents the 12-Resolution “Abuja Declaration on Fertilizer for the African Green Revolution” adopted in 2006 and contextualizes the 2014 adoption by the 23rd Summit of the African Union of the Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods that reaffirmed that agriculture should remain high on the development agenda of the continent.

城市园林树木的益处

Policy Papers & Briefs
February, 2016

大面积的城市树木是城市污染物和细颗粒物的优秀的过滤器。一棵树每年可以吸收高达150公斤的二氧化碳,截存碳并从而减缓气候变化。树木可以提供栖息地,食物和动植物保护,增加城市中的生物多样性。我们今天种下的树木是后人必不可少的资源!

Forestry Contribution to National Economy and Trade in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda

Reports & Research
February, 2016
Kenya
Ethiopia
Uganda
Africa

The economic contributions of forests in Eastern African countries have not received the desired attention in terms of policy and budgetary allocation needed for sustained growth of these forests. This, among other reasons, has led to the reduction of forest zones and an increase in the import of forest-related products, resulting in dwindling foreign currency reserves.