The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has estimated that 87% of transported poultry is broiler chickens. Broiler death losses during transport average 0.2% but can vary greatly. In layers, poor feather cover is associated with more mortalities, and in broilers, poor...

Livestock have multiple important roles and functions, including their direct contribution to food availability and access for smallholders. Livestock products are major sources of protein, micronutrients (iron, zinc, calcium, vitamins B₁₂, A and riboflavin) and fats. They are particularly...

The Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA) of FAO carries out various types of work on food and nutrition security. ESA engages in five main types of activities: conducting economic research and analysis; providing analytical tools; producing publications; providing advisory services;...

The right to nutrition is implicitly recognized in a number of human rights instruments and explicitly so as far as children, pregnancy and lactation are concerned. The Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security ...

FAO launched the Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS) in 1994 to assist member countries in their efforts to reduce the prevalence of hunger and malnutrition. Over a period of 14 years (1994-2008), the programme was implemented in 106 countries and mobilized US$890 million. Having learned...

Over the last decade, FAO has served as a strategic partner to NEPAD (the New Partnership for Africa's Development) Planning and Coordination Agency (NPCA) and member countries in providing expertise for the design and implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme...

Halving the number of people who suffer from hunger by 2015 is a key challenge of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In efforts to achieve this goal, emphasis has been placed by many development programmes on promoting agro-enterprise development, product value addition and food processing....

This chapter discusses the origins of food safety regulations, citing important scientific backgrounds and events that led to such regulations. Individual roles of the food industry and state authorities in ensuring food safety are described, as well as the influence of international institutions...

This chapter surveys global and national production, and export and demand/consumption of lentil. It provides an update on the topic written in 1981 by Nygaard and Hawtin in 'Lentils' (Nygaard and Hawtin, 1981). The chapter is based primarily on FAOSTAT, i.e. the statistical database of the United...

The highlights of the Bergen Conference on implementing the ecosystem approach to fisheries held in Bergen, Norway on 26-28 September 2006 was discussed in this chapter. The Bergen Conference was a follow-up to the Reykjavik Conference in 2001 and was organized by the Nordic Council of Ministers...