The importance of nutrition-sensitive food and agriculture-based approaches for overcoming malnutrition and improving nutrition in general is fully recognized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). FAO, a specialized UN agency, has as its mandate the raising of levels of nutrition and standards of living and ensuring humanity's freedom from hunger by promoting sustainable agricultural ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) interest in emerging diseases caused by foodborne pathogens derives from its role as the leading United Nations agency with a mandate for food quality and safety matters. The Food Quality and Standards Service of FAO's Food and Nutrition Division is active in all areas related to food safety and implements the FAO/World Health Organization Food Stan...

In the late 1990s, the author conducted research entitled ―Modeling the demand and supply structure for food in Asia‖. The research was based on a system dynamics method and, using time series datasets up to 1998 to estimate the parameters, tried to figure out the demand and supply structure for food until the year 2010. In this paper, the author introduces an overall research structure and com...

Global hunger is on the rise (FAO, 2009). The number of those that are undernourished has increased steadily over the past decade reaching 1.02 billion people in 2009 (FAO, 2009), and remaining near this total over the past two years. The Millennium Development Goal to reduce world hunger by half by 2015 will likely not be met with current observed trends according to a recent UN report on food...

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations launched a global partnership initiative for the conservation and adaptive management of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) in 2002. China is one of the first countries that responded to the GIAHS initiative, witnessed by the designation of Qingtian Rice-Fish Culture by FAO in June 2005. It is also the first country t...

FAO has accorded food security and sustainable livelihood a high priority since the Rio Summit and more recently in response to the declaration of the World Summit on Sustainable Development. On its part, the FAO Forestry Department in collaboration with partners, has launched a number of initiatives to assist developing countries, particularly those with low forest cover, designing and strengt...

World food and agricultural production will have to increase substantially if the demand created by the combination of growing populations and rising incomes is to be met. Large-scale improvements in technology are needed if production targets are to be reached. But now that energy is so expensive, the new agricultural techniques and technologies must be as energy-efficient as possible. Researc...

1 Introduction 2 In recent years, rising and increasingly volatile energy costs have combined with 3 growing concerns over global climate change to fuel interest in the development of carbon-4 neutral, sustainable energy sources. Throughout the U.S. and abroad, a host of policies and 5 research initiatives are in progress to address economic and technological barriers that 6 restrain the transi...

Diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases: report of a joint WHO/FAO expert consultation, Geneva, 28 January-1 February 2002.

In the present paper I shall try to discuss the ideas and principles underlying the estimates of human energy requirements proposed by a consultative group set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization, World Health Organization and United Nations University, that met in Rome in October 1981 (FAO/WHO/UNU, 1985). I shall only consider adults, since Whitehead (1986) discusses the requirements o...