Rural transformation

Increasing productivity without compromising environmental sustainability is, perhaps, one of the greatest puzzles of agricultural development. Yet recent research reports provide evidence of stagnating crop yields and regionally variable crop yield patterns globally.

FAO online consultation to strengthen the engagement between FAO and CSOs

Sustainable agriculture often requires capital, something most farmers in low-income countries don't have. What kind of policy and business tools can help?

Food companies have a unique opportunity to reduce hidden hunger by choosing whole grains and hydrothermal processing.

Many countries are highly dependent on food imports. It is important to recognize this as a form of climate vulnerability, as climate change impacts in producing countries are likely to exacerbate global food price shocks.

The Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project (KACP), developed by the Vi Agroforestry programme, receives mitigation funding from the World Bank’s BioCarbon Fund for soil carbon sequestration and...

Focusing on biodiversity, biosafety and bioinformatics offers a multi-dimensional strategy for effective virus risk management.

Listen to presentations that from different angles help us understand some of smallholders’ challenges in animal production, as well as identify important research gaps

With this discussion forum, FAO aims to bring together experts of all levels from scientists who study the potential of sustainable crop production, to the practitioners who apply sustainable horticultural practices - to exchange their experiences, new findings and challenges faced.

SIANI (Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative) is currently looking to gather expertise for further development of knowledge and cooperation strategies in order to increase food security and resource efficiency through food waste reduction in global food chains, with a particular focus on collaboration between developing and developed countries.