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C 2027/19 - Report of the 53rd Session of the Committee on World Food Security (Rome, 20-24 October 2025)
No full textReport of the Thirty-third Session of the North American Forest Commission - NAFC/2025/REP
No full textWhat's new, what's good, what's risky and why we should care about modern indoor farming
No full textIn August 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) published a technical document entitled Modern indoor farming and food safety – A review of hazards, controls and regulatory consideration. Indoor farming, from greenhouses to vertical farms and hydroponic systems, is gaining attention as a way to grow fresh food closer to consumers, year-round, and with fewer environmental pressures. But does farming indoors truly make food safer? And what challenges remain? This factsheet unpacks what indoor farming entails, what benefits it brings, and what risks need to be managed
Literature review
No full textRepresentative data collection is fundamental to social science research and evidence-based policy development, yet standard survey methodologies struggle to adequately capture hard-to-reach (HTR) populations essential to understanding social inequality and economic vulnerability. This literature review synthesizes current knowledge on sampling strategies designed for HTR populations, including mobile or migrant workers, and geographically isolated communities. The review examines prominent sampling methodologies developed for HTR contexts, including non-probability approaches like snowball sampling and respondent-driven sampling (RDS), location-based probability methods such as time-location sampling (TLS), design-based innovations like adaptive cluster sampling (ACS), and indirect estimation techniques including capture-recapture and the network scale-up method (NSUM). The review emphasizes that ethical considerations are paramount, including informed consent challenges, confidentiality protection, and harm prevention. The review concludes that no single method is universally optimal; local context must shape methodological choice, and triangulation using multiple methods is strongly recommended to address inherent limitations and improve equity in research representation
Agricultural Inputs and Commodity Price Bulletin in the Syrian Arab Republic, September 2025 – Issue #45
No full textThe Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the Syrian Arab Republic monitors agricultural inputs and food commodity market prices, and releases the "Monthly Agriculture Inputs and Commodity Price Bulletin – AICPB", which is now in its fifth year of publication. The AICPB offers the latest market information from 46 sub-districts across the nine governorates of Al–Hasakeh, Deir–ez–Zor, Aleppo, Idleb, Hama, Tartous, Homs, Rural Damascus and Dar'a. The bulletin informs Food Security and Agriculture (FSA) sector actors and other stakeholders on the pricing of key agricultural inputs and food commodities. This regular publication disseminates regular information on prices, supply and demand, market conditions, and other relevant market information. Furthermore, smallholder farmers benefit from the disseminated market information by engaging in meaningful, market–oriented production activities. The main goal of the monthly AICPB is to enhance informed decision making across key agricultural value chains and food production systems by improving the technical and productive knowledge and capacities of stakeholders, particularly farmers, as well as development and humanitarian actors. The bulletin expands the understanding of stakeholders with regards to the local context, thus making agricultural production (encompassing crop and animal husbandry, forestry, fisheries, and agro-processing) more resilient, productive, sustainable, gender–sensitive, and market–oriented
Policy Brief
No full textDespite their critical role in climate action, agrifood systems have not been integrated into just transition policy debates under the UNFCCC, and are rarely included in national just transition plans. But these gaps could be overcome at COP30 if Parties recognise the critical importance of resilient, inclusive agrifood systems transformation for achieving a just transition in their deliberations. This policy brief makes the case for placing agrifood systems transformation at the heart of just transition debates and policy making. It proposes an evidence-based framework for pursuing a just transition in agrifood systems that is aligned with the change pathways of the Paris Agreement 2 that can guide national policy making and offers key policy recommendations for Parties and observers at COP30