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The 32nd Session of FAO's Committee on World Food Security in 2006, attended by 120 countries, was widely criticized by non-governmental organizations, but largely ignored by the mainstream media. Oxfam called for an end to the talk-fests [84] while Via Campesina issued a statement that criticised FAO's policy of Food Security. [85]
FAOSTAT serves as the foremost authoritative source of agrifood systems data, including food security, agriculture and nutrition; agriculture production and trade; prices of commodities; investment; population and employment in agrifood systems; food and diet; land, inputs and sustainability, climate change and agrifood systems emissions; structural data on agriculture; and it includes data ...
Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is a twin island country situated off the northern edge of the South American mainland, 11 kilometres (6.8 miles) off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and 130 kilometres (81 miles) south of Grenada.
FAO – Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [1] FAI – Fédération Aéronautique Internationale; GS1 – Global supply chain standards (identification numbers, barcodes, electronic commerce transactions, RFID) HGI – Home Gateway Initiative; HFSB – Hedge Fund Standards Board; HROpen – Human Resource (HR) data exchange ...
Agrifood systems emissions in 2021. To feed a world population forecast to reach 9.7 billion in 2050, [18] FAO estimates that agriculture may need to produce 40–54 percent more food, feed and biofuel feedstock than in 2012, depending on the scenario. [19]
The FAO Country Profiles is a multilingual [1] web portal that repackages the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) information archive on its global activities in agriculture and food security in a single area and catalogues it exclusively by country and thematic areas.
GIAHS: Rice Terraces in Southern Mountainous and Hilly areas, China. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) leads the programme Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS), which helps identify ways to mitigate threats faced by these systems and their people and enhance the benefits derived from these dynamic systems.
Corinna Hawkes is a specialist in food systems. She is Director, Division of Food Systems and Food Safety for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Between 2016 and 2023 she was Director, Centre for Food Policy at City, University of London. She is also co-founder of the Next Gen(D)eration Leadership Collective.