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Agrifood systems and COVID-19
The report provides a comprehensive, cross-country analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on agrifood systems in 15 countries and territories experiencing food crisis. The cross-country analysis is based on individual country profiles and findings that are generally valid across the countries. Each country profile describes the policy measures enacted by governments, development and humanitarian partners to contain the virus, including measures taken to protect the functioning of agri-food systems from major disruptions. The profiles assess the effects of such measures on agrifood systems and vulnerable groups, including long-term implications and the investments necessary to make agrifood systems more resilient in future. The report is structured around key messages and findings that are generally valid across the profiles. Examples are used to illustrate some of the policy measures, their impacts and lessons learned.
Legumes Biofortification
Sustainable food production is vital to ensure food and nutritional security to growing human population. Recently, there has been a shift in agricultural production system, crop production is not only considering yield as primary interest to produce higher number of calories for reducing hunger, but also more nutrient-rich food to reduce malnutrition or “hidden hunger”. Micronutrient malnutrition is a continuing and serious public health problem in many countries, various Interventions to alleviate this problem have been implemented. Biofortification, the process of breeding nutrients into food crops, provides a comparatively cost effective, sustainable, and long-term means of deliverin...
State of Food and Agriculture
Unless action is taken now to make agriculture more sustainable, productive and resilient, climate change impacts will seriously compromise food production in countries and regions that are already highly food-insecure. The Paris Agreement, adopted in December 2015, represents a new beginning in the global effort to stabilize the climate before it is too late. It recognizes the importance of food security in the international response to climate change, as reflected by many countries prominent focus on the agriculture sector in their planned contributions to adaptation and mitigation. To help put those plans into action, this report identifies strategies, financing opportunities, and data and information needs. It also describes transformative policies and institutions that can overcome barriers to implementation. The State of Food and Agriculture is produced annually. Each edition contains an overview of the current global agricultural situation, as well as more in-depth coverage of a topical theme."
Stepping up – Everyone around the table for better nutrition and healthy diets
This is the first of three background papers produced to inform the series of three virtual roundtables entitled ‘Stepping up: Everyone Around the Table for Better Nutrition and Sustainable Healthy Diets: FAO/GAIN Roundtables with the Private Sector on Healthy Diets’ which took place in July-2020. These papers and roundtables are intended to highlight current understandings, gaps and misconceptions about engaging with businesses in the food system. Together with all stakeholders we hope to identify paths leading to healthy diets for everyone, everywhere. STEP 1 (this paper) unpacks the role of the private sector, especially of SMEs, in sustainably nourishing the world. It reinforces the growing consensus that food systems, and the SME activities within them, must be transformed by stakeholders from all sectors.
Urgensi Corporate Social Responsibility: Perspektif Kesejahteraan Sosial
Pengungkapan tanggung jawab sosial perusahaan ditemukan dalam konsep social disclosure, corporate social reporting, social accounting, dan corporate social responsibility. Sedangkan beberapa padanan kata yang selaras dengan CSR adalah: Sustainability yang diperkenalkan ole Elkington (1997), Corporate Citizenship oleh Visser et al., (2007), Corporate Social Performance oleh Carroll (1979), Corporate Philanthropy oleh Varadarajan dan Menon (1988), dan Corporate Social Initiatives oleh Kotler & Lee (2005). Meskipun sejak tahun 1970-an istilah CSR mulai digunakan dan terutama ketika Elkington mengemas CSR ke dalam konteks Profit, Planet dan People (3P) akan tetapi, tidak bisa dipungkiri bahwa Program Pemberdayaan Masyarakat yang bersumber dari dana Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) tersebut belum mampu diimplementasikan secara partisipatif dan maksimal kepada komunitas yang terhempas oleh gelombang dahsyat ekploitasi kapitalisme agraris, karena berbagai kepentingan yang bergesekan di dalamnya.
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State of Food and Agriculture
In recent decades we have made considerable progress in fighting global hunger and poverty. A majority - 72 out of 129 - of the countries monitored by FAO have achieved the Millennium Development Goal target of halving the prevalence of undernourishment by 2015, with developing regions as a whole missing the target by a small margin. But progress has been uneven among countries and regions. The prevalence of hunger and poverty has fallen substantially in some regions, especially in East Asia and the Pacific as well as Southeast Asia. But in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, progress has been slow overall, despite some country success stories. This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture focusing on social protection elaborates on our unequivocal support to strengthen national capacities and capabilities to successfully develop and deliver needed programmes.
Maize in Vietnam: production systems, constraints, and research priorities
Maize is the second most important food crop in Vietnam after rice.
