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FAO: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Achieving food security for all is at the heart of FAO’s efforts – to make sure
people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy
lives.

Our mandate is to improve nutrition, increase agricultural productivity, raise
the standard of living in rural populations and contribute to global economic
growth.

To meet the demands posed by major global trends in agricultural development and
challenges faced by member nations, FAO has identified key priorities on which
it is best placed to intervene. A comprehensive review of the Organization’s
comparative advantages was undertaken which enabled strategic objectives to be
set, representing the main areas of work on which FAO will concentrate its
efforts in striving to achieve its vision and global goals.


HELP ELIMINATE HUNGER, FOOD INSECURITY AND MALNUTRITION

FAO’s challenge: there is sufficient capacity in the world to produce enough
food to feed everyone adequately; nevertheless, in spite of progress made over
the last two decades, 870 million people still suffer from chronic hunger. Among
children, it is estimated that 171 million under five years of age are
chronically malnourished (stunted), almost 104 million are underweight, and
about 55 million are acutely malnourished (wasted).


MAKE AGRICULTURE MORE PRODUCTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE

The world’s population is predicted to increase to 9 billion people by 2050.
Some of the world’s highest rates of population growth are predicted to occur in
areas that are highly dependent on the agriculture sector (crops. Livestock,
forestry and fisheries) and have high rates of food insecurity. Growth in the
agriculture sector is one of the most effective means of reducing poverty and
achieving food security.


REDUCE RURAL POVERTY

Most of the world’s poor live in rural areas. Hunger and food insecurity above
all are expressions of rural poverty. Reducing rural poverty, therefore, is
central to FAO’s mission. Many living in rural areas have been lifted out of
poverty in recent decades. In 1990, 54% of those living in rural areas in
developing countries lived on less than $1.25 a day and were considered
extremely poor. By 2010, this share had dropped to 35%. Rural poverty remains
widespread especially in South Asia and Africa. These regions have also seen
least progress in improving rural livelihoods.


ENSURE INCLUSIVE AND EFFICIENT AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD SYSTEMS

With increasing globalization, agriculture as an independent sector will cease
to exist, becoming instead, just one part of an integrated value chain. The
value chain exits both upstream and downstream, or from production through to
processing and sales, in which the whole is now highly concentrated, integrated
and globalized. This poses a huge challenge for smallholder farmers and
agricultural producers in many developing countries where even the most
economically valid smallholders can easily be excluded from important parts of
the value chain.


PROTECT LIVELIHOODS FROM DISASTERS

Each year, millions of people who depend on the production, marketing and
consumption of crops, livestock, fish, forests and other natural resources are
confronted by disasters and crises. They can strike suddenly – like an
earthquake or a violent coup d’état – or unfold slowly – like drought-flood
cycles. They can occur as a single event, one can trigger another,or multiple
events can converge and interact simultaneously with cascading and magnified
effects. These emergencies threaten the production of, and access to, food at
local, national and, at times, regional and global levels.

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