State of the world's nursing 2025
<p>Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent
Africa
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Manual on the right to water and sanitation
This manual starts out with a clear exposé of the contextual issues surrounding the water and sanitation crisis in many countries of the world, encompassing legal foundations, entitlements, responsib
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World bamboo resources: a thematic study prepared in the framework of the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005
This study on bamboo was developed by FAO and INBAR jointly in the framework of FAO’s Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005 (FRA 2005), with the aim of filling the gap in global information and providing a first, comprehensive assessment of the world’s bamboo resources.
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Climate change as a security risk
This report summarizes the state-of-the-art of science on the subject of “Climate Change as a Security Risk”.
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Manual on the right to water and sanitation: executive summary
This manual starts out with a clear expose of the contextual issues surrounding the water and sanitation crisis in many countries of the world, encompassing legal foundations, entitlements, responsibi
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The world's mangroves 1980-2005
The main aim of this study was to facilitate access to comprehensive and comparable information on the current and past extent of mangroves in the 124 countries and areas where mangroves are known to exist,
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Climate change as a security risk
This flagship report, summarizes the state-of-the-art of science on the subject of 'Climate Change as a Security Risk'. It is based on the findings of research into
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World trade report 2007: six decades of multilateral trade cooperation - what have we learnt?
The report looks at the circumstances in which the GATT was born and goes on to explain why governments believe it is in their interests to cooperate on trade matters.
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Adaptation to climate change in agriculture, forestry and fisheries: perspective, framework and priorities
Climate change adaptation requires the use of good agricultural, forestry and fisheries practices to meet changing and more difficult environmental conditions. To make sure appropriate nformation is shared and put into practice, FAO works to build capacities at the national, local and community levels to raise awareness and prepare for climate change impacts. At the government level, the goal is to mainstream climate change strategies and actions in agricultural policies and programmes to reduce vulnerability and provide local communities with site-specific solutions
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Trade profiles 2007
This booklet is a quick source for national and trade statistics of WTO members and countries which are in the process of negotiating WTO membership.
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International conference on organic agriculture and food security: 3-5 May 2007, FAO, Italy
Access to food involves entitlements for producing or acquiring food, which are discussed in this paper under three main headings: access to productive natural resources including land, water, agrofor