Product Description: FAO's bestselling 2011 publication, Save and Grow, proposed a new paradigm of agriculture, one that is both highly productive and environmentally sustainable. This new publication looks at the application of Save and Grow farming systems, practices and technologies to the world's main food security crops--maize, rice and wheat...read more

Product Description: This report is aimed primarily at policy makers and others who make or influence national and institutional decisions and actions.It proposes a common vision and coordinated approach towards sustainable food and agriculture that is comprehensive as well as responsive to the needs and expectations of Member Countries...read more

Product Description: Le rapport 2015 sur L’État de l’insécurité alimentaire dans le monde fait le point des progrès accomplis vers les objectifs de réduction de la faim définis au niveau international – le premier objectif du Millénaire pour le développement (OMD) et l’objectif du Sommet mondial de l’alimentation – et s’interroge sur ce qui doit être fait pour accompagner la transition vers le nouveau programme de développement durable pour l’après-2015...read more

Product Description: El bienestar humano y la salud del planeta dependen de nuestra voluntad de cuidar de los bosques y de los procedimientos que empleemos para llevar a cabo su explotación. Es por lo tanto esencial saber quién posee y controla los bosques y cómo se ejerce la gobernanza de la tenencia forestal...read more

Product Description: The International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management provides a framework which will guide government regulators, the private sector, civil society and other stake holders on best practice in managing pesticides. This version incorporates public health pesticides and vector control to broaden the scope of the Code of Conduct beyond agricultural pesticides...read more

This document is the adopted record of the Thirty-third Meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources held in Hobart, Australia, from 20 to 31 October 2014. Major topics discussed at this meeting include: the status of CCAMLR-managed fisheries; the Report of the Thirty-third meeting of CCAMLR’s Scientific Committee; illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the Convention Area; vulnerable marine ecosystems and bottom fishing; the establishment of a representative system of marine protected areas in the Convention Area; assessment and avoidance of incidental mortality of Antarctic marine living resources; new and exploratory fisheries; current operation of the System of Inspection and the Scheme of International Scientific Observation; compliance with conservation measures in force, including the implementation of CCAMLR’s Compliance Evaluation Procedure; review of existing conservation measures and adoption of new conservation measures; a process to support the ongoing review of CCAMLR’s Catch Documentation Scheme and a separate process related to the Vessel Monitoring System; management under conditions of uncertainty and cooperation with other international organisations, including within the Antarctic Treaty System. The Reports of the Standing Committee on Implementation and Compliance and the Standing Committee on Administration and Finance are appended.

Product Description: The International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management provides a framework which will guide government regulators, the private sector, civil society and other stake holders on best practice in managing pesticides. This version incorporates public health pesticides and vector control to broaden the scope of the Code of Conduct beyond agricultural pesticides...read more

Product Description: This Global Plan of Action identifies 27 strategic priorities grouped into 4 areas: 1) improving the availability of, and access to, information on FGR; 2) conservation of FGR (in situ and ex situ); 3) sustainable use, development and management of FGR; 4) policies, institutions and capacity-building...read more

Product Description: Les insectes comestibles ont toujours été au menu des hommes, mais dans quelques sociétés un certain degré de dédain et de dégoût s’oppose à leur consommation. La majorité des insectes consommés sont encore récoltés dans leurs habitats forestiers, mais il existe désormais des systèmes d’élevage dans de nombreux pays...read more

Product Description: This document presents an assessment of small-scale fisheries of the Patos Lagoon estuary, Brazil, using a custom-designed fisheries census methodology. Complementary information was sourced from a literature review, secondary data and in-depth semi-structured interviews...read more

Product Description: L'État de l'insécurité alimentaire dans le monde 2014 contient les dernières estimations de la sous-alimentation et décrit les progrès accomplis par rapport aux cibles de lutte contre la faim fixées dans le cadre des Objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement (OMD) et lors du Sommet mondial de l'alimentation (SMA)...read more

Product Description: These guidelines provide development planners with practical orientation on how to plan and monitor ComDev activities as part of the project cycle, so that overall effectiveness and sustainability may be improved.