Böcker utgivna av Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Looks at the nature of the relationships between conflict, food security and peace. The book shows how food security and nutrition outcomes vary across different types of conflict, identifying the conditions that seem to influence those outcomes the most, and reviews evidence on the channels through which conflict and violence affect food security.

Provides learning and facilitation tools and recommended workshop scheduling, as well as background information, key messages, resources and presentations on a variety of topics, including forest-water relationships, the impact of changing landscapes on water, and field studies.

Assesses the skills and training needs of rural youth in Cambodia and develops recommendations on how to foster their access to decent employment. The study highlights the limited decent employment opportunities that currently exist along various agricultural value chains in rural Cambodia.

Provides new estimates of the percentage of the world's food lost from production up to the retail level. The report suggests that identifying and understanding critical loss points in specific supply chains - where considerable potential exists for reducing food losses - is crucial to deciding on appropriate measures.

Provides new estimates of the percentage of the world's food lost from production up to the retail level. The report suggests that identifying and understanding critical loss points in specific supply chains - where considerable potential exists for reducing food losses - is crucial to deciding on appropriate measures.

Provides new estimates of the percentage of the world's food lost from production up to the retail level. The report suggests that identifying and understanding critical loss points in specific supply chains - where considerable potential exists for reducing food losses - is crucial to deciding on appropriate measures.

This fifteen-year retrospective on the "Right to Food Guidelines" helps us look back and understand what has worked and why, where the bottlenecks lie, and how governments and their partners can be most effective in the fight against hunger and malnutrition.

Describes a campaign to limit the use of antimicrobials - specifically antibiotics - in the Danish swine-producing sector. It is hoped that this historical guide will help to identify ways forward to limit the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance, which is threatening public health, animal health and safe food production worldwide.

Action contre la desertification est un projet qui soutient huit pays - Burkina Faso, Ethiopie, iles Fidji, Gambie, Haiti, Niger, Nigeria et Senegal - dans la gestion durable et la restauration des terres degradees.

Provides guidance on the integration of internationally accepted labour standards into national legislation in the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sectors. The report identifies the standards that apply to these sectors and shows how they have been or could be integrated into regulatory frameworks.

Assesses and maps 184 peer-reviewed, empirical research articles selected for their focus on linkages between water stress and human migration. First and most importantly, this literature asserts that migration is an extremely common social process and is normal in almost every society on earth.

This publication aims to help policy-makers, project designers and field practitioners to conceptualize the nexus between gender equality and food loss while offering practical guidance on and tools for integrating gender concerns into the planning and implementation of food loss studies and reduction strategies and interventions.

Investigates the situation of pastoralism, highlighting its current context of vulnerability. The report outlines policy interventions, resilience programming, and research areas that could enhance the resilience of pastoral livelihoods systems.

Underlines the urgency to develop and implement strategies for adaptation and sustainable management of resources. This report documents several positive experiences and highlights the importance of accelerating investments to improve water efficiency and water productivity as well as the need for a shift towards crops that consume less water.

The 4-book Complete Series Set of Books I, II, III, and IV is intended as a comprehensive, easy-to-use reference source for all hospitals with a delivery service.

Contains food additive specifications monographs, analytical methods and other information, prepared at the sixty-eight meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), which was held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 19 to 28 June 2007.

Presents the trends in legal and administrative frameworks, management regimes and status of marine capture fisheries which are analysed for 29 countries in the Pacific Ocean. This report is accompanied by CD-ROM and is suitable for policy decision-makers, fishery managers and stakeholders.