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Friday 22 October 2021
Agriculture
Good emergency management practice: the essentials: a guide to preparing for animal health emergencies. 3rd ed., 2021.
FAO animal production and health manual 25.
- Corporate Author:
- Food and Agriculture Organization
- Author:
- François Gary
- Publisher:
- FAO
Animal health emergencies are evolving, but they remain among the most challenging situations a country can confront. Infectious diseases and other threats have increasing potential to spread rapidly within a country or around the world due to growing populations, concentration of animal populations and market intensification, human and animal movement, and global trade. This international GEMP Essentials guide is meant to support the advancement of key components of emergency management as countries continue efforts to work and prepare together. It sets out in a systematic way the elements required to achieve an appropriate level of preparedness and proposes an approach to animal health emergency management inclusive of all type of events, be they caused by natural phenomenon, including not infectious events, or by accidental or deliberate human action. The guide also includes the One Health approach. This is a third edition of 2011 publication Good emergency management practice: the essentials - A guide to preparing for animal health emergencies.
- ISBN: 9789251341278
- £40.95
Agriculture
2020 regional overview of food security and nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean: food security and nutrition for lagging territories: in brief.
- Corporate Author:
- Food and Agriculture Organization
- Publisher:
- FAO
During 2019, 7.4 percent of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) lived in hunger, which is equivalent to 47.7 million people. The situation has been deteriorating over the past 5 years, with an increase of13.2 million undernourished people. If this trend continues, the possibility of meeting the Zero Hunger target of Goal 2 (SDG2) of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) will be even further away. It is estimated that, in2030, hunger will affect 67 million people in the region, a figure that does not take into account repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The population affected by food insecurity in Latin America has continued to increase over the past 5 years. In2019, almost a third of the population, or 191 million people, were affected by moderate or severe food insecurity. In the region, child stunting is decreasing and overweight in children under 5 is increasing. Recent information on malnutrition in the region's countries shows that nearly one in every 5 territories is lagging in relation to either stunting or overweight in children under 5.The highest lags in relation to stunting are found in rural areas. These territories have high levels of poverty, low income, low schooling rate, a higher presence of informal employment, less access to services and a higher proportion of indigenous and Afro-descendant population. Being overweight in children under 5 seems to be geographically distributed in a more homogeneous way. However, highly lagging territories tend to be concentrated in urban areas, with higher incomes, lower poverty, greater access to services and more formal labour. Although the real dimension of the impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic is still unknown, it threatens to widen these differences and the gaps between lagging and non-lagging territories. The pandemic hits the most vulnerable populations and territories particularly hard, where there are a greater number of informal jobs, incomes are lower and healthy food is scarce. Addressing the problem of food security and nutrition in lagging territories requires multidimensional interventions that address the various causes of malnutrition in an integrated manner, and that offer a coordinated response across various dimensions of development. This Regional Overview describes some of the main policy interventions that are being carried out in the region within three groups of measures focused on:(1) Improving and promoting economic access to adequate food; (2) Improving physical access to food and the production of food that promotes adequate nutrition,; (3) Improving food use and quality
- ISBN: 9789251341667
- £47.95
Food
Food outlook: biannual report on global food markets, June 2021.
- Corporate Author:
- Food and Agriculture Organization
- Publisher:
- FAO
Against the background of fast expanding trade and a surge in food import bills, which has come to characterise much of developments shaping global food markets in 2020/21, early forecasts for 2021/22 point to resilient food trade and a continuation of strong international prices amidst many supply and demand uncertainties. This report provides supply and demand forecasts for basic foodstuffs, fish and fishery products along with price analysis and policy information. The report's special feature of this report puts recent trends in global food trade under the spotlight, with particular focus on how commodity flows have measured-up during the COVID-19 pandemic. Contrary to widespread predictions of a collapse in global markets, recent data show that trade continues to reach new heights. A novel metric is introduced that better captures the price momentum underway in international markets. Food Outlook is published by the Markets and Trade Division of FAO as part of the Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS). It is a biannual publication (November and June) focusing on developments in global food markets. Food Outlook maintains a close synergy with another major GIEWS publication, Crop Prospects and Food Situation, especially with regard to the coverage of cereals. Food Outlook is available in English. The summary section is also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish
- ISBN: 9789251343340
- £61.50
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