Food resources

Policy and legal enabling conditions for sustainable agriculture

2026 Hannam, Ian | Mezzacapo, Enrico | Chicoma, Jose L. |

The dominant model for agricultural development has not adequately considered environmental and social externalities, leading to their insufficient integration into decision-making processes that shape agriculture and food systems. There is a critical need for comprehensive regulation of the agricultural sector to design and implement concrete transition pathways towards more sustainable agriculture and food systems at various scales,

Global food supply prospects : a background paper prepared for the World Food Summit, Rome, November 1996

1996 Ingco, Merlinda D. | McCalla, Alex F. | Mitchell, Donald O. |

State of food insecurity in the world : economic growth is necessary but not sufficient to accelerate reduction of hunger and malnutrition

2012

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012 presents new estimates of undernourishment based on a revised and improved methodology. The new estimates show that progress in reducing hunger during the past 20 years has been better than previously believed, and that, given renewed efforts, it may be possible to reach the MDG hunger target at the global level by 2015.

Food and agriculture : the future of sustainability

State of food insecurity in the world : how does international price volatility affect domestic economies and food security?

2011

This edition of The State of Food Insecurity in the World focuses on food price volatility. Our organizations continue to monitor food prices, and have alerted the world through a number of analytical reports on food price trends and ongoing volatility in recent years, as these continue to be a matter of concern for governments and people around the world. Indeed, high and volatile food prices are widely expected to continue in the future.

Global food losses and food waste : extent, causes and prevention

This publication is based on studies carried out from August 2010 to January 2011 by The Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology (SIK) on request from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Water for food : innovative water management technologies for food security and poverty alleviation

2011

Can agricultural water management (AWM) technologies provide innovative solutions that can help to meet this challenge of feeding a growing, mostly disadvantaged, population by producing more food but with fewer resources? This paper reviews the water-food-poverty nexus and examines the role that AWM technologies may play in achieving world food and water security.