Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Data made available by FAO includes:
WWW/Gopher server: information on FAO activities, research and publications arranged by broad subject. Includes access to several databases and full text of selected publications.
Databases maintained by FAO include:
(a) Interactive Publications Catalogue: of all FAO materials available with and ISBN. Searchable by broad sector and title/date/ISBN. Available free on WWW
(b) FAODOC: database of selected documents prepared by or for FAO. The documents themselves are available on microfiche. Plans for this database to be made available on WWW. The latest issue of the monthly accessions to this database is also available on the WWW
(a) AGRIS: main bibliographical database (see separate entry)
(b) CARIS: Current Agricultural Research Project Information System (see separate entry)
(b) AGROSTAT PC databases: electronic versions of the FAO statistical Yearbooks. 1961-date. Available on WWW (as FAOSTAT) and for sale on PC discs (see separate entry)
(c) Mediabase: keyword searchable collection of downloadable photographs and images (see separate entry)
(c) Seed Production Group: databases on seed sources, regional seed review (see separate entry)
(d) Pesticide Management Unit: information on pesticide use and safety (see separate entry)
(e) International Plant Protection Secretariat: support services include Global Plant Quarantine Information System: information on geographic distribution of quarantine pests. Associated PC PQBASE database (contact Plant Production and Protection Division)
(f) Fishery Information and Statistics Service: series of PC statistical databases (see separate entry)
(g) Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA): see separate entry
(g) AMDASS Agrometeorological Data Systems: data from 17000 meteorological stations, using the CLICOM software, developed by the World Meteorological Organization. (contact: Research and Technology Development Division)
(h) FAO Agricultural Policy Information System (APIS): Database to (1) assist staff engaged in policy analysis and policy advice in a country (region or subregion) obtain information about advice other staff have given on the same or related topic; (2) to enable FAO's steering committee for Sector and Structural Adjustment Policy Work (SSAP) and the Central Task Force for SSAP to monitor effectively the FAO programme of policy work financed by both Regular Programme funds and extra-budgetary resources; and (3) to enhance FAO institutional memory of policy analysis and policy advice given to member countries, through assembling and disseminating to concerned staff the lists of work relevant to their activities. 1988 to date. (PC Database: contact Policy Analysis Division)
(i) Soil Map of the World: see separate entry
Published Documents
- Training guide supporting gender and climate change research in the agriculture and food security sectors
- S. Nelson / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
- It has been estimated that over 100 million people could be lifted out of poverty, if women were granted equal access to and control of resources. However, climate change and gender have yet to be implemented into agricultural develop...
- National integrated mitigation planning in agriculture: a review paper
- A. Wilkes / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013
- This review of national greenhouse gas mitigation planning in the agriculture sector has two objectives: to provide national policymakers and others in the agriculture sector with an overview of national mitigation planning processes ...
- Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon markets
- B. Vickers / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
- The climate change debate has brought forests to the forefront of the international agenda. Since the 1990s the forestry voluntary carbon market (VCM) has taken shape, though forest owners have generally not been the first to understa...
- The state of food and agriculture: investing in agriculture for a better future
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
- Recent food crises and growing concerns about global climate change have placed agriculture on top of the international agenda. Decision-makers have recognised the strong link between the dual goals of eradicating hunger and making ag...
- Gender in emergency food security, livelihoods and nutrition in Somalia
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
- This Food and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FNASU) desk based review examines traditional and changing gender roles and responsibilities in food security, livelihood and nutrition, examining what is known about the Somalian context and gap...
- Gender and Nutrition: FAO draft issue paper
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
- This draft issue paper was prepared by FAO in October 2012 as a working document before submission to and discussion within the UNSCN with a view to developing consensual briefs for non-specialists on crosscutting issues impacting foo...
- A reference for designing food and nutrition security policies: the Brazilian Fome Zero strategy
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
- Between 2000-2002 and 2004?2006, the undernourished population of Brazil reduced from 17 million to 11.9 million thanks to an integrated effort whose centrepiece was the Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) strategy, launched in January 2003 by th...
- A training guide that promotes gender-responsive and socially-sensitive climate change research and development in the agriculture and food security sectors through participatory approaches.
- S. Nelson (ed); M. Chaudhury (ed); H. Tranberg (ed) / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
- Together, both women and men play a significant role in safeguarding food security. It is important to understand their respective roles and responsibilities to ensure that they benefit equally from climate-smart agriculture practices...
- Invisible guardians: women manage livestock diversity
- I. Köhler-Rollefson / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
- This paper highlights the important role of women in maintaining livestock diversity by analysing global trends in the livestock sector from the perspective of their influence on gender roles in livestock keeping and animal genetic re...
- Developing a climate-smart agriculture strategy at the country level: lessons from recent experience
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
- This paper presents recent experiences of country level implementation of climate smart agriculture (CSA) to identify some key lessons to incorporate into ongoing CSA activities in developing countries. It stresses that different miti...
