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The State of Food and Agriculture, FAO’s major annual flagship publication, aims to bring to a wider audience balanced science-based assessments of important issues in the field of food and agriculture. Each edition of the report contains a comprehensive, yet easily accessible, overview of a selected topic of major relevance for rural and agricultural development and for global food…

Notwithstanding its proven effectiveness, social protection alone cannot sustainably move people out of poverty and hunger. Agriculture and social protection are fundamentally linked in the context of rural livelihoods. Poor and food-insecure families depend primarily on agriculture for their livelihoods, and make up a large proportion of the beneficiaries of social protection programmes…

Prices for crops and livestock products showed diverse trends in 2014. Among crops, two years of strong harvests put further pressure on prices of cereals and oilseeds. Tighter supplies due to factors including herd rebuilding and disease outbreaks supported high meat prices, while the prices of dairy products dropped steeply from historic highs. Further adjustments to short-term factors are…

Global Affairs is a new journal by EISA and published in partnership with Taylor & Francis. The journal will focus on global affairs, including diplomacy, strategy, political economy and policy. It will: 1. Publish essays on global changes, trends, and politics among nations around the world and their policy implications for Europe 2. Feature contending perspectives on global actors,…

The world population continues to grow at about 1.5% a year. The projected figure of 7 billion for last year was reached and the UN statistics are pointing towards 8 billion for 2020. In addition, emerging world economies are undergoing significant changes in their diet. In the forthcoming decades we will therefore have to double our food production on less land per capita, with less water, often…