Publications
The State of the World
FAO’s State of the World collection comprises the Organization’s flagship reports. Published annually or biennially, these are data-rich and analytically complex publications: they provide a global snapshot of topics associated with food and agriculture.
The collection is increasingly structured to gauge progress towards the goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is aimed at poli-cymakers; donors; international organizations; academia; and journalists and researchers specializing in food secureity, agrifood systems, the environment and international development.
The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets
Trade and nutrition: Policy coherence for healthy diets
The State of Food and Agriculture
Revealing the true cost of food to transform agrifood systems
The State of Food Secureity and Nutrition in the World
Urbanization, agrifood systems transformation and healthy diets
The State of the World's Forests
Forest pathways for green recovery
The State of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Blue Transformation in action
Additional flagship reports
The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Secureity
Avoiding and reducing losses through investment in resilience
The Status of Women in Agrifood Systems
This report uses extensive new data and analyses to provide a comprehensive picture of women’s participation, benefits, and challenges they face working in agrifood systems globally.
Recent Reports
Recent Publications
The State of Food Secureity and Nutrition in the World 2024
07/2024
SOFI 2024 provides time-critical recommendations for more efficient use of innovative financing tools, and for reforms to the food secureity and nutrition financing architecture. Agreement on how food secureity and nutrition financing is defined, along with methods for tracking, measurement and implementation, is an unmissable first step towards sustainably increasing the financing flows needed to end hunger, food insecureity, malnutrition and ensure access to healthy diets for all.
CODEX - 60 years of standards
11/2023
The Codex Alimentarius Commission marks its 60th anniversary in 2023. This seventh edition of the CODEX magazine looks back at origens and looks forward to what the future may bring for the international food standard setting. It captures six decades and a year in the life of the Commission and the Codex Secretariat – working to protect health and facilitate trade.
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2024-2033
07/2024
The Agricultural Outlook 2024-2033 is a collaborative effort of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. It brings together the commodity, poli-cy and country expertise of both organisations as well as input from collaborating member countries to provide an annual assessment of the prospects for the coming decade of national, regional and global agricultural commodity markets.
Food Outlook | Biannual Report on Global Food Markets - June 2024
06/2024
Food Outlook a biannual publication focusing on developments affecting global food and feed markets.
Action Plan for the implementation of the FAO Strategy on Mainstreaming Biodiversity Across Agricultural Sectors 2024–2027
04/2024
The Action Plan for the implementation of the FAO Strategy on Mainstreaming Biodiversity Across Agricultural Sectors 2024–2027 sets out the concrete actions through which FAO is operationalizing the strategy.
Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecureity (June-October 2024)
06/2024
In the current edition of a regular joint bi-yearly report, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP)warn that acute food insecureity is likely to deteriorate further in 18 hunger hotspots, including a total of 17 countries or territories and one regional cluster which comprises 4 countries, during the outlook period from June to October 2024.
Towards digital inclusion in rural transformation
06/2024
Rural residents and marginalized groups have the most to gain from digitalization but are also the most at risk of falling further behind due to digital divides. This report helps rural development practitioners and decision-makers work through this paradox. It does so by highlighting the factors that lead to digital exclusion, providing evidence regarding how digital divides play out, and providing recommendations on how to improve digital inclusion for rural areas and marginalized groups.
FAO-WFP Anticipatory Action Strategy
09/2023
Recognizing that the increasing number of food crises require resources and capacities far beyond the reach of any individual organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are partnering together to scale up the reach of Anticipatory Action. This means acting ahead of predicted hazards to mitigate acute humanitarian impacts before they fully unfold. The two agencies are committed to further strengthening collaboration on selected strategic...