To celebrate FAO’s 75th anniversary, a new publication chronicles the history of the Organization and shares its vision for the future. FAO at 75 – Grow, nourish, sustain. Together provides a snapshot of FAO’s achievements and aspirations seen through the lens of three quarter-centuries.

Also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish 

A device-friendly format  is also available

80 pages | 250 x 200 mm | ISBN 9789251333594

This publication offers a synthesis of the major factors at play in the global food and agricultural landscape. It is meant to constitute a primary tool for policy makers, researchers, analysts and the general public interested in the past, present and future path of food and agriculture.

A digital report is also available

368 pages | 210 x 297 mm | ISBN 9789251333945

This pocketbook complements the Statistical Yearbook by providing, in an easy and concise format, quick access to top-level numbers, charts and maps on many dimensions of food and agriculture.

140 pages | 125 x 176 mm | ISBN 9789251334720

The October 2020 edition of the FAO publications catalogue is now available, released to coincide with the digital Frankfurt book fair (14–18 October).

116 pp. | 176 x 250 mm | 9789251334737

As digital dissemination possibilities continue to develop, FAO remains committed to harnessing as many channels as possible.

Help shape FAO’s digital publishing programme by answering a five-minute survey on the The State of the World’s Forests and Global Forest Resources Assessment.

This voluntary protocol develops a conceptual framework and standard methodologies for the monitoring, reporting and verification of soil organic carbon changes and greenhouse gas emissions/removals, so as to provide feasible and contextualized guidelines that can be adapted locally in different agricultural lands.

140 pages | 210 x 297 mm | ISBN 9789251331262

The FAO Water Productivity Open-access portal (WaPOR) uses remote sensing technologies to monitor and report on agricultural water productivity. This document describes the methodology applied to produce the different data components of WaPOR Version 2.

90 pages | 210 x 297 mm | ISBN 9789251329818

This manual provides instructions to promptly diagnose and react to an outbreak or case of African swine fever. It features general information on the disease and its causes, including epidemiology, transmission pathways and geographic distribution.

Also available in Albanian, Chinese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish

92 pages | 176 x 250 mm | ISBN 9789251097526

These guidelines seek to increase the understanding of the environmental footprint of feed additives and to reveal possible synergies or trade-offs with other environmental criteria.

162 pages | 210 x 297 mm | ISBN 9789251329412

The guide provides practical methods for countries to estimate the activity data used to compile livestock greenhouse gas inventories. It helps countries to improve the accuracy of their livestock emission estimates and report progress towards their nationally determined contributions.

154 pages | 210 x 297 mm | ISBN 9789251321171

To tackle the economic downturn in Nicaragua, this study analyses various scenarios to evaluate the impact of increasing public investment on the productive infrastructure of the different agri-food sectors, and explores possible financing options for new investments.

Also available in Spanish 

80 pages | 210 x 297 mm | ISBN 9789251333518

This report seeks to describe the conceptual linkages between trade and SDG2, identify the key policy measures that affect agricultural trade and markets, and discuss possible priorities for policy makers to design and implement context-specific trade policies.

70 pages | 210 x 297 mm | ISBN 9789251331514

This guide includes 552 species of fish that reside between 200–1000 m depth, with fully illustrated dichotomous keys to all taxa. Each species’ details are provided: the scientific name, FAO common name, size, a distribution map, and illustration(s) are provided.

346 pages | 176 x 250 mm | ISBN 9789251330944

This volume presents case studies from a regional assessment of non-wood forest products used in the cosmetics and fragrance sector while encouraging cross-sectoral discussions in Asia on forests and beauty products.

186 pages | 210 x 297 mm | ISBN 9789251323984

This report collects worldwide good practices and lessons learned on stocktaking, highlighting FAO’s interventions on resilience building and gender mainstreaming. These successful examples can be used to increase resilience of livelihoods in a gender-equitable manner.

48 pages | 210 x 297 mm | ISBN 9789251331064

This framework fosters the replication and scaling up of home-grown school feeding models and the mapping of opportunities for linking such programmes with relevant agricultural development and rural transformation investments.

Also available in French, Spanish

170 pages | 210 x 297 mm | ISBN 9789251308462